On an otherwise normal hour of CNN last week, viewers may have been greeted by the title card “Global Report: War With Iran” and an array of correspondents fanned out across the Middle East — from Tel Aviv to Doha — speaking with Anderson Cooper on AC360. Or they saw Jake Tapper multitasking as usual on The Lead, grilling interview subjects, ticking through breaking news like the dearth of TSA workers at airports due to a government shutdown. The substance was the same. The style was not.
Out were the crisp, buttoned-down trappings of a stereotypical Cable News studio set. In were podcast-style audio setups and messy, center-of-the-newsroom production vibes more line with the aesthetic of indie influencers. The ties were gone (or loosened) and the map of Iran was printed out for a table top that included a studiously messy arrangement of New York Times sections (that, perhaps, is
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