Plan for editorial oversight board at CNN and CBS News draws skepticism: ‘Utter garbage’

Some network employees and media-watchers have questions and concerns about how arrangement will work Leading media figures and insiders dismissed plans to create an editorial oversight board to protect CNN ’s independence as “utter garbage” – in one staffer’s words – after a settlement was reached to resolve a lawsuit filed by a coalition of 12 states to block Paramount ’s $110bn acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery .

California’s attorney general, Rob Bonta, during a press conference to announce the settlement, said that Paramount “must establish a news editorial independence board to support CBS News and CNN’s continued editorial independence to ensure independent, objective, fact-based reporting at CBS News and at CNN”.

Read the original report at The Guardian.