CNN did something different entirely: It poached Audie Cornish, an acclaimed journalist and interviewer who spent the past 16 years at NPR.
Cornish will lead a weekly series on CNN+, the streaming service that will launch this spring. “She will also host a new podcast for CNN Audio and will appear on CNN covering national, political and breaking news,” the network said.
The key word in that sentence might be “news.” Of the three big appointments across three cable brands on Monday, Cornish was the only journalist.
CNN certainly has many political commentators on the payroll — Sanders used to be one of them — but the recent spate of hires…