CNN jettisoned media critic Brian Stelter, but somehow Oliver Darcy did not catch the blade.

My guess is that Darcy was making a fraction of what Stelter was paid, and that’s why he was spared the blade.

But, CNN boss Chris Licht has said that he wants CNN to move back to doing more news and less opinion.

I would think that you would want to have a media reporter that covers the media objectively?

Darcy does nothing of the sort.

In the CNN media newsletter, Darcy talks about the cable news ratings for Biden’s SOTU address, and he wrote:

CNN averaged 2.4 million viewers, with 651k in the demo. MSNBC averaged 3.6 million viewers, with 500K in the demo. The right-wing talk channel Fox News averaged 4.7 million viewers with 853k in the demo.

First off, you would normally put the network with the highest ratings first, followed by the network with the second highest ratings, and then the last place network last. Darcy did the complete opposite. He mentioned last place CNN first and first place Fox News last.

But, whatever, this is the line I want to focus on: “The right-wing talk channel Fox News averaged 4.7 million viewers with 853k in the demo.”

I have no problem with that, as Fox News is clearly a right-wing channel. But why does he call MSNBC and CNN “left-wing” channels?

They are as much left as Fox News is right, so why leave that out?

CNN can stay to the left but quit blowing smoke about being a neutral network.

You are nothing of the sort.