@jayrosen_nyu How ironic that the author describes "a broader effort, on Licht’s part, to drag CNN to the middle of the road."

She implies she has insight into Licht's motivations (which she doesn't) and frames her imagined motivations in the best possible light — he's correcting CNN's previous bias. He himself has described what he's doing as "creating news" (i.e. staging events in order to create publicity), which would have been a more honest and objective way to describe his intent.