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#ChrisLicht is haunting #JakeTapper’s earpiece?

"CNN Staff Exhausted After Chris Licht’s Resignation: ‘Sick of Being Embarrassed’
The man behind the widely maligned Donald Trump town hall was not long for the network, which is bracing for an uncertain future"
BY JON BLISTEIN, DIANA FALZONE
JUNE 7, 2023

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/chris-licht-cnn-ceo-step-down-1234765107/

#CNN #ChrisLicht

It was a good day for justice:

- Pat Robertson dead
- Chris Licht kicked out as CNN CEO
- SCOTUS rules against Republican gerrymandering in Alabama
- Donald Trump indicted on 7 Federal felony counts

#donaldtrump #patrobertson #ChrisLicht #scotus #gerrymandering #justicematters

I don't have any real thoughts about Chris Licht because by the time he was hands-on, I had already made the decision to leave CNN, but this article rings true to me.

Thread to follow.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/08/cnn-seeks-new-ceo-business-strategy.html

#CNN #ChrisLicht #CNNPlus #NewsMedia #DigitalStrategy #Streaming

"Yesterday, at 7 AM, while New York City was engulfed in smoke, Zaslav walked #ChrisLicht through Central Park and fired him." #CNN

Hey Chris! You want to go play? C'mon, let's go to the park and fetch, boy! https://www.pajiba.com/politics/david-zaslav-fired-chris-licht-on-a-walk-through-central-park.php #chrislicht #CNN

"There’s little evidence that these will be the takeaways from this debacle. But it sure would be pretty to think so."

#CNN #ChrisLicht #BothSidesism #MediaFail
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"Perhaps the biggest cheeses at CNN have learned the right lessons: that you can’t “both sides” your way into ratings success. That there is no vast political middle just waiting to be entranced by performative neutrality. And, most of all, that good journalism has nothing to do with sucking up to would-be authoritarians but rather it demands brave truth-telling."

~ Margaret Sullivan

#CNN #ChrisLicht #BothSidesism #MediaFail
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/08/cnn-chris-licht-fired-ratings-numbers

"What especially confused Chris Licht and the rest of CNN’s management was the difference between being politically partisan and standing up against authoritarian demagogues. They assumed that holding Trump accountable for what he did (and continues to do) was inconsistent with so-called “balanced journalism.”

Wrong. It is not partisan to stand up for decency and democracy. That’s where CNN’s audience wanted — and presumably still wants — CNN to be."

#CNN #ChrisLicht #centrism
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"CNN’s new management came along at a time of establishment confusion over whether the old political center would return after Trump. America’s business establishment — including Warner Bros. Discovery billionaire John Malone — hoped it would. But that proved a pipe dream. The division between authoritarianism and democracy is now too deep. If anyone had any doubts, CNN’s Trump town hall should have erased them."

~ Robert Reich

#CNN #ChrisLicht #centrism
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https://robertreich.substack.com/p/goodbye-cnns-chris-licht-but-whats

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With the ink barely dried on stories about Licht's war on truth-telling journalists at CNN...

Bye bye... Don't let the door hit you on the way out! Go play w/Elon in his sandbox

>>> Chris Licht Fired at CNN After Programming Blunders, Staff Revolt

https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/06/07/chris-licht-leaves-cnn-town-hall-atlantic/

> "CNN chief executive Chris Licht....was fired Wednesday, capping one of the shortest tenures for a CEO at the cable network."
...

#ChrisLicht #CNN #mediajobs #media #disinformation #news #CableNews #broadcasting

#ChrisLicht’s departure marks the failure of his mandate — delivered from his corporate overlords, including #WarnerBrosDiscovery CEO #DavidZaslav — to recalibrate the network’s political sensibility toward the center. To the extent that anyone ever understood what that meant for actual #CNN broadcasts, it’s now clear that it meant #sanitizing the screen in deference to the #Republican front-runner.

A disaster, in other words.

That morsel surfaced in a searing profile of #ChrisLicht that appeared last week in the Atlantic under the byline of Tim Alberta — a piece that aggregated a run of bad stories about #Licht & added a few new ones. On Wed morning, #CNN staffers learned that Licht was out….

There are many subplots to Licht’s abbreviated tour, but the #SexualAbuse chyron moment captures a critical one:

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2023/06/cnn-ratings-chris-licht-trump/674255/

A New York jury on May 9 found Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing #EJeanCarroll, an advice columnist who sued him years after the #assault she alleged. The next day, #CNN held its much-criticized #TownHall w/#Trump. In its tee-up coverage, a chyron that included the term “SEXUAL ABUSE” appeared on the screen. A lieutenant of CNN chief executive #ChrisLicht notified the control room: Scrub those words.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/06/07/chris-licht-cnn-centrist-politics/

#CNN boss #ChrisLicht & …top allies have been fired after weeks of turmoil & drama….

#Licht’s brief tenure as the network’s boss was marked by plummeting ratings, extensive job cuts, programming shifts that didn’t pan out, & high-profile firings of on-air personalities (& Trump’s Town Hall). All of this, it appeared, was part of an effort to reshape CNN into a “centrist” news org & appeal to a supposedly broader audience.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/embattled-cnn-boss-chris-licht-gets-the-boot

So is this the new head over at #cnn ?
#succession #chrislicht

https://www.indiewire.com/news/analysis/why-chris-licht-fired-from-cnn-1234872120/

#ChrisLicht #CNN #WarnerBrosDiscovery #news #media

"Licht has taken a bad situation and made it much worse. Whether out of genuine conviction or out of a desire to please the plutocrats who own Warner Bros. Discovery, Licht has mastered the art of deploying centrist rhetoric for reactionary ends. …

There’s a distinct ideology at work in Licht’s actions, a worldview that can be described as reactionary centrism."

~ Jeet Heer

#ChrisLicht #CNN #BothSidesism #centrism
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https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/cnn-zucker-licht-trump/

"The solution proposed by Licht and his bosses at Warner Brothers for the "jersey" problem was nothing more than bothsiderism. Because, for all his protestations that 'You can’t tell me it’s not raining [when] it’s raining,' Licht's plan was to make #CNN a hospitable place for people who look into a thundercloud and call it sunny weather." You must read Wonkette's take on the #ChrisLicht fiasco.
h/t @DemocracyMattersALot https://www.wonkette.com/cnn-s-chris-licht-lights-himself-on-fire

Chris Licht is OUT at #CNN, says #DavidZaslav, the man who hired him and vouched for him. (One can only hope Zaslav will be next.) During his tenure, Licht single-handedly turned CNN into Fox Lite. Goodbye Chris, and good riddance. So the answer to the question posed by New York Magazine, Can Licht survive at CNN? has been answered once and for all.
#ChrisLicht #ResignDavidZaslav
https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/07/media/chris-licht-cnn/index.html

Brian Stelter at the badsite says The Atlantic's story about Chris Licht "shocked many staffers, but the people who worked closest with Licht weren't surprised, they were relieved. They felt like the 'absolute truth' had finally been compiled and would now have to be addressed."

(No link. You can go there and read it yourself, if you like.)

#CNN #ChrisLicht