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The media freakout about CNN’s hiring of Sarah Isgur is about partisan gate-keeping

By Becket Adams
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The media freakout about CNN’s hiring of Sarah Isgur is about partisan gate-keeping

Journalists are very mad online this week following CNN’s announcement that it has added former Justice Department spokeswoman Sarah Isgur to its news division ahead of the 2020 election.

The going complaint is that it’s ghastly that a newsroom would hire a longtime Republican operative to “coordinate political coverage for the 2020 campaign at the network,” as Politico reported.

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