Is my recollection wrong that way back when, during the first Gulf War, CNN was the go-to, accurate news source.....

[FadedMullet]

.......for information about how things were going as the Bush administration sent 600,000 (?) troops over there to liberate Kuwait (and Kuwait's oil) from Saddam? The reporting was thought to be accurate, covering both the slaughter of retreating Iraqi troops by American airpower and the lack of evidence of infants being through out NICU incubators. Remember Wolf Blitzer and the "Scud Studs" reporting from the front as Scud missiles occasionally got lucky and blew up in the vicinity of American and coalition troops.
This is why I have been slow to realize that CNN has become, by any measure, "Fox News Lite", now with 30% less froth.