ATLANTA, GA — As part of the channel's ongoing quest to ensure accurate media reporting, CNN has elected to run live retractions simultaneously with the news stories being reported at the time.
Retractions will appear on an additional ticker at the bottom of the screen, retracting the usual live news updates with corrections of everything the on-screen anchor is saying.
CNN CEO Mark Thompson confirmed the change in a public statement on Friday. "We're really bad at our job, but we can be slightly less bad if we keep the same terrible anchors on camera while also reporting corrections at the bottom of the screen. This helps us maintain accuracy in our news reporting while not violating the contracts of on-screen talent."
Anchors Erin Burnett, Kaitlan Collins, Abby Phillip, Jake Tapper, Laura Coates, and Kate Bolduan were said to be most affected by the change in business process. Meanwhile, Wolf Blitzer's news ticker will be replaced by a disclaimer warning users that the seasoned anchor is not, in fact, an actual wolf.
Anderson Cooper, among the network's most untrustworthy anchors, will see the majority of his show taken over by retractions while he continues to report live from a small news ticker at the bottom of the screen.
At publishing time, the ratings of Anderson Cooper 360° had plummeted overnight as viewers were frightened by the show's new presentation of a wall of text with only the anchor's eyes visible at the bottom of the screen.
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