CNN reviews

The parent company, TimeWarner, is swinging the wrecking ball at the fourth estate while it cherry-picks profits out of the rubble of responsibility and moral conscience. CNN's newsrooms have fun house floors, especially if you're in the U.S. Sure, the benefits and vacation will be great, but then a trap door will open, you'll whisk down a chute, and they'll be snapped from your grasp as you sail to the pavement. Yes, yes, the corporate world, but really the way to run a news institution? When profits are high? When you have the power and finances to turn it into a beacon of journalistic hope for your nation, and others? Go to CNN, and your colleagues there will be unforgetable and the vast majority lovely. But management will promote their own, less deserving friends ahead of them and dismiss good, hard working people. The inanimate gaze of the chopping block in the room will taint your days with angst. And then there's Trump. The American monster CNN midwifed. Much of the U.S. media have prostituted themselves to King Bigot for clicks and ratings, but CNN has held court the most, and helped him gel a fascist movement in the United States that will delight the world for years to come. (Yes, Russell Brand, Bill Maher and John Oliver, you may have this as a gift.)

Management is populated by a glut of old white men who have been at the company a very long time. They've successfully found shady corners to rule their fiefdoms from and are hands down some of the worst leaders to work for. They often give lip service to those who are looking to move up or make changes in the organization and consistently do nothing to improve the newsroom HR (like at most companies) exists to protect the company and management and when an employee brings up harassment, or points out an abusive manager, that employee is usually the one who is punished rather than the manager. The environment is cutthroat and nasty. Rumors abound and run rampant and hard work and real journalism isn't rewarded.