Just let a CNN anchor embed with the troops in any military action and see how fash CNN is. Police and military will happily produce cheap and riveting content for any news source as long as they accept the narrative angle with it. Look at how media has covered every war since Vietnam.

Due to falling viewership CNN decided to do a right-wing pivot a few months ago. So now rather than being “center-left” in terms of the US overton window they are right wing.