Sumayyah Waheed on CNN’s Copaganda Hire, Chris Becker on Inflation Coverage

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For years, he’s been back and forth between the New York Police Department (and the FBI) and news media like ABC. And now he’s the new hire at CNN. The hire is part of CNN‘s rebranding under new leadership; the major stockholder cites Fox News as an exemplar. We’ll talk about the Miller hire with Sumayyah Waheed, senior policy counsel at Muslim Advocates. We’ll talk about how that’s playing out in coverage of inflation with Chris Becker, associate director of policy and research and senior economist at the Groundwork Collaborative.