I try hard not to revel in someone else's misfortune, but I'll take a break from that today in the wake of Brian Stelter's firing from CNN.
I have no soft spot for B.S., who combined "journalism" and opinion in the worst possible way, masquerading as a media reporter while spinning Democratic talking points and serving as CNN's PR department.
It's difficult to choose which Stelter examples to highlight because there are hundreds.
He backed Chris Cuomo's sketchy behavior to the end, pushed the false Russiagate story for years, and defended race hoaxer Jussie Smollett, concluding that "we'll never really know what happened."
Instead of praising the NY Post for its Hunter Biden scoop, he ran a segment on “How the latest anti-Biden narrative was manufactured,” where he attacked the paper as a "right-wing media machine" and did his best to undermine its reporting.
No matter what, Stelter defended the liberal narrative while complaining daily that conservative outlets, particularly Fox, were destroying democracy.
He was truly horrible.
Besides schadenfreude, though, there's another reason to be cautiously pleased about this.
CNN's news boss, Chris Licht, is said to want to moderate the network's hyperpartisan approach. There was no better place to start than by getting rid of Stelter.
While it could mark a turning point in CNN, it's one small move at a network with 24 hours of embedded partisanship. Licht will need to radically change the company to earn back its trust among the public.
Does he really want to do that? If so, can he actually pull it off? Large corporations don't easily change.
Whatever the future of CNN, the firing of B.S. is a positive sign for journalism.