CNN is coming under fire after news broke Tuesday that the network tapped a Republican operative and former Justice Department spokesperson as a political editor overseeing coverage for the 2020 presidential elections. Prior to her job at the Justice Department, where she worked under then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Sarah Isgur Flores was an adviser to Senator Ted Cruz and Mitt Romney and was Carly Fiorina’s deputy campaign manager for her 2016 Republican primary bid. Isgur Flores, who has no experience in journalism, has been critical of CNN in the past, including in 2014 when she retweeted a conservative website referring to CNN as “Clinton News Network.” On Tuesday, New York Congressmember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted, “Sorry, didn’t get the latest memo after 1,000 experienced + qualified journalists of all stripes were let go w/o warning a few weeks ago and still looking for work: are we still pretending that hires like these are evidence of a meritocracy?”
CNN Under Fire for Hiring GOP Operative to Oversee 2020 Coverage
HeadlineFeb 20, 2019