Friday 17 July 2020

CNN New Day With John Berman And Alisyn Camerota

I haven't seem much of the American News broadcasts lately but they haven't had a very good reputation for asking the tough questions and were rightly pilloried for such regarding George W Bush in the build up to his Iraq War debacle.
Fox News is banned in the UK because of its blatant bias but we get CNN and whilst i am still currently working local for now, i have seen a few of the New Day shows recently with Alisyn Camerota and John Berman and i have to say things have certainly changed for the better there.
You would have thought that having Donald Trump in charge and his cringe-worthy views and sheer awfulness during the pandemic, it would be an open goal for broadcast journalists and i don't know about the rest of the CNN output but Alisyn and John are doing a great job of holding the failing President and his sycophants feet to the fire.
With America sitting top of the nations death list with 140,000 deaths and a seemingly endless list of failures and embarrassing quotes at their disposal, it should be a no-brainer that the people who try and defend the President and his administration get a hard time and i quite enjoyed Poppy Harlow on CNN Newsroom last night giving a Trump Campaigner a right grilling and using the tried and tested strategy of using direct quotes from the President to undercut her, to be brutal, outright lies. 
CNN had vastly improved since the last time i saw it, which admittedly was a while ago but the presenter Richard Quest is a bit of an enigma, obviously British judging by his accent which seems to be a generic English accent, like the accent someone would do to impersonate an English speaker but he does slip into the occasional 'northern English accent', probably unnoticed by American ears.
His Wikipedia page says he was born in Liverpool and educated in Leeds which makes sense why he flattened his speaking style out, if he spoke with a scouse or leeds accent in America nobody would understand him, even us British struggle with those accents, but i see he was originally trained at the BBC...so say no more, carry on.

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