CNN Bombs: Network’s Bungling of NYC Attack Couldn’t Have Come at a Worse Time

CNN staffers have spent the past few weeks worrying about a potential merger that could hand editorial control of the network to CBS editor in chief Bari Weiss.

They have good reason to be scared — especially after several CNN employees this past week bungled the basic facts of the recent ISIS-inspired bombing attempt in New York City, leading staffer after staffer to issue the same shamefaced, totally avoidable correction. (These high-profile embarrassments, by the way, are on top of the fact that the network has had to settle not one but two defamation lawsuits since just 2020.)

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Becket Adams

Becket Adams is a columnist for National Review, the Washington Examiner, and The Hill.

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CNN staffers have spent the past few weeks worrying about a potential merger that could hand editorial control of the network to CBS editor in chief Bari Weiss.

They have good reason to be scared — especially after several CNN employees this past week bungled the basic facts of the recent ISIS-inspired bombing attempt in New York City, leading staffer after staffer to issue the same shamefaced, totally avoidable correction. (These high-profile embarrassments, by the way, are on top of the fact that the network has had to settle not one but two defamation lawsuits since just 2020.)