Stel­ter Urges Media To Be ‘Loud­er Than The Liars’ That Crit­i­cize Them

For­mer chief media cor­re­spon­dent for CNN, Bri­an Stel­ter, joined MSNBC’s Ari Mel­ber on Friday’s edi­tion of The Beat to talk about his old employ­er, the media as a whole, and to pro­claim that the industry’s job is to be “loud­er than the liars” who attack them.
Mel­ber won­dered, “So, has CNN, in your view, lost its way? And were they wrong in some of the pro­gram­ming deci­sions they made, includ­ing regard­ing yours?”

Stel­ter replied that he didn’t think so because, “there’s a big dif­fer­ence between a man­age­ment regime ver­sus CNN as an insti­tu­tion. And that’s true for lots of media com­pa­nies. When you’re read­ing the news­pap …