Stelter displayed this disturbance in his commentary while highlighting that, “CNN was not built by just one man, not by only Ted Turner and it was not led only by Jeff Zucker.”

“CNN is so much bigger than any single individual. It is about teams and teams of people, thousands of individuals who make up CNN,” Stelter continued, “This place is not perfect. It will never be perfect.”

“We will always have flaws, we will always screw up, we will always have to run corrections,” Stelter said, acknowledging many concerns brought forth about CNN in recent years.

“But the people who say we’re lacking journalism, that we’ve become an all-talk channel, that we’ve run off and we’re all opinions all the time, that Jeff Zucker led us astray, those people aren’t watching CNN,” argued Stelter passionately — despite the fact that nine of CNN’s 18 hours of live programming per day, including all of its primetime lineup, consists of programs which mostly feature opinion content.