The End of CNN

It is hard to imagine that CNN could get worse, but it has.  I am not speaking about the nearly non-existent ratings for the CNN prime time schedule.  Those are so low already that one wonders why any advertiser would pay to showcase its products on the network.  No, I am speaking about the quality of the news reports aired on the network.  Okay, I know that CNN went to 24 hour coverage of the missing Malaysian airliner three months ago and still reports frequently on that story.  (Let me summarize the coverage:  it is still missing.)  How, you may ask, could CNN get worse than that?  Here's the answer:  CNN has hired David Chalian as its Political Director.  Chalian is the man that was fired by Yahoo News when his disgusting biased comments about Mitt and Ann Romney during the campaign were videotaped and then released.  In essence, Chalian was on tape saying that the Romneys wanted to hold parties while "black people are drowning", a reference to a hurricane that was coming ashore at the time.  No one would call Yahoo News even-handed; the outlet is strongly biased towards the Democrats.  Nevertheless, even Yahoo News knew that Chalian's comments were so far over the line of propriety that they fired him on the spot.  This is the guy that CNN is now bringing back as its Political Director.  My guess is that CNN is now looking for a new niche audience:  the folks who think that MSNBC is not liberal enough.