Oliver Darcy

And so I felt like it was important to, you know, shine light and to hold everyone accountable, whether that was my corporate company, you know, CNN, the corporate company that, or owner of that, Warner Brothers Discovery, or others.

And I also told, you know, my bosses there, I said, I'm not going to call another news organization or another media company

and hold them to a different standard than we're holding ourselves to.

And so if we, you know, if CNN does something that generates controversy or is perceived as a bad decision, we need to cover that the same way we'd cover it anywhere else.

It's very awkward to cover your own parent company.

I guess that's what I'm trying to say.

I mean, it's super awkward when you're, you know, writing coverage of your own boss, you know, the head of the company.

It's awful, yeah.

And you see them in the elevator and you're like,

Oh, hey.

Hi.

Right?

Right, exactly.

It's just a very awkward scenario to be in.

And I mean, I feel like when I was at CNN, I was like, this has got to be the only job in the world where I am paid to, you know, cover aggressively my own company.

And it's a very strange place to be in, but I did feel like it was important.

And you're right.

The alternative of being silent, I just personally, like, I can't go to bed at night knowing that I'm like,

doing the bidding of some giant corporation like that's not again why i got into journalism and so i felt like look and i think i made this pretty clear to the powers that be there that if i couldn't go to bed at night feeling comfortable about the output that i was doing then i wasn't the right person for the job and i will say now you know even you know i left in 2024 in august

It would be very difficult, I'd say, to be covering what's happening with CNN and Paramount and Warner Brothers Discovery while inside CNN.