When did CNN lose it's desire for journalistic integrity?

The Free Dictionary defines "mob":  n 1. a. a riotous or disorderly crowd of people; rabble

b. (as modifier): mob law; mob violence.

2. often derogatory a group or class of people, animals, or things

3. (Agriculture) Austral and NZ a flock (of sheep) or a herd (of cattle, esp when droving)

4. often derogatory the masses

5. slang a gang of criminals

vb (tr) , mobs, mobbing or mobbed

6. to attack in a group resembling a mob

7. to surround, esp in order to acclaim: they mobbed the film star. ' . . .

CNN panel mocks Kanye as Trump’s ‘token negro’; Don Lemon tells guest to ‘shut up’ for saying ‘mob’  "During a debate on “CNN Tonight,” Lemon turned very sour when Lewis said the group of liberals protesting Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing and who chased Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and his wife out of a restaurant in Washington, D.C., were a “mob.”

"After almost everyone on the panel bizarrely said President Donald Trump and Republicans were to blame for the uptick in hostility in the county, Lewis argued that the Tea Party never chased liberals out of establishments like liberals did with Cruz and several Trump administration officials in recent months.

" 'The Tea Party did hound people. The Tea Party people hounded me when I went out to cover them!” Lemon claimed. “And do you know what I said? It was their right to do it because they’re Americans!”

“ 'Don, if they started following you around a restaurant and running you out of places, that would be wrong,” Lewis replied.

“ 'But that doesn’t mean that people don’t get to object,” Lemon shouted, interrupting Lewis. “That’s your right as an American to object. It’s covered in the First Amendment. It’s like the first one!”

"After Lemon lectured the panel on how harmful it is to label intolerant liberals a “mob,” Lewis refused to back down and stood his ground." . . .

CNN’s Baldwin refuses to call SCOTUS protesters a ‘mob’ – then the two conservative guests join forces  . . . Lewis refused to back down, and even noted how some liberals were so deranged over Kavanaugh that they were clawing and banging on the doors of the Supreme Court during Kavanaugh’s swearing in.

“What about the people who were at the Supreme Court banging on the wall. What do you call that? Civil protest, or is that a mob?” Lewis asked, putting Baldwin on the spot.

“Pretty mobby,” said The Federalist’s Mary Katherine Ham, adding that if the protesters were members of the Tea Party, Baldwin and other liberal hosts would certainly label them as a mob." . . .

Confirmation Bias: Brett Kavanaugh And The Major Media’s Worst Moment
. . . "We are now at the unsuccessful conclusion of a four-week-long effort by certain media organizations to prove Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh is a violent sexual predator and a lying alcoholic. The reckless and grossly irresponsible scramble by the New Yorker, NBC News, the New York Times, and others to make Kavanaugh into a monster produced some of the worst journalism of the Trump era to date – and that’s a pretty high bar." . . .