WBD chair emeritus John Malone tells CNN network has 'leftist' bias

Media mogul John Malone told CNN anchor Pamela Brown that the left-leaning network risks irrelevance if it cannot shed politics, reclaim neutrality and make its live signal easier to access worldwide.

“The broad perception of CNN today is that it is coming at news with a leftist , or left-of-center bias,” Malone, the billionaire who holds the title of chairman emeritus at CNN parent company Warner Bros. Discovery, told Brown on Friday.

Editorially, Malone said CNN must return to being a “neutral observer” in debates over truth. 3

“If there’s going to be a debate on whose truth is right, you’re sort of a neutral observer of that debate,” he told Brown.

Malone, chairman of Liberty Media, said younger audiences increasingly drift to blogs and partisan outlets “because they feel