If you’re a regular reader of this column, you know I’ve assigned a possibly irrational level of importance to John Malone‘s recent musings about the future of CNN. The media mogul called on the network to dial back its opinion programming, “actually have journalists’” and “evolve back to the kind of journalism that it started with”—itself a critique that I find notable in light of Malone’s impending influence as a board director at CNN’s future parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery. I thought I had spilled all the ink there was to spill on those remarks—Malone is neither C.E.O. of Warner Bros. Discovery, nor president of CNN, and he’ll be one board member among thirteen—and yet I found myself thinking of those words once again when I heard that the distinguished newsman Chris Wallace was leaving Fox News to join CNN’s new streaming service, CNN+.