CNN, along with most other cable news outlets, laid out a narrative that Special Counsel Robert Mueller was well on his way to finding some major dirt on President Donald Trump. When it became very, very clear that Mueller would not be indicting Trump (or even his children for that matter) and that no further major indictments were coming, CNN and those other networks changed their tune and attempted to downplay the very scenario they were all but advocating themselves.
This left these networks with a lot of egg on their faces, and left media observers with questions about the future of news coverage.-- More...
