I don’t think it’s a right and left thing. I don’t think that’s what is going to be important. I think CNN has an opportunity to be a real arbiter, but being a real arbiter means taking a stand. Not just having people on, ‘you’re on the left, you’re on the right.’ That’s like having people on in the cola wars ‘you’re from Pepsi, you’re from Coke.’ ‘What do you think?’ ‘I think we taste great.’ ‘Well, I think we taste great.’ ‘That’s all the time we have.

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