CNN SUCKS!!!

Strange bunch over there at CNN.

They are all getting ready to commit hari kari because they failed to filter out and control a candidates answers. We just went through this with ABC filtering out RFK,jr's covid response.

That is not your goddam job. Your job is to elicit responses from candidates that give the viewers insight and knowledge into what the candidates positions and disposition are. It is okay to argue against their position moderately for the purpose of following up and getting them to answer predictable viewer questions or objections BUT it is not their job to wrestle them down to the ground and make sure that the viewers do not hear what CNN has not approved for viewers to hear.

I am one of their biggest critics, but maybe they could lighten up a bunch. I HAVE NEVER seen Jake Tapper as bad off as he was right after the townhall. He was clinically dumbfounded and confused and should have been escorted off the panel. He was like 95 year old woman who suddenly realized she was lost in the grocery store.

Get a grip for god's sake. They think they have failed humanity for not stopping Trump from being Trump. What the hell did you think you were getting? I gave Trumps points for going into the snakepit, and I gave CNN points for manning up and having Trump come by and go head to head. Now I have to take CNN's points away from them for becoming unstable and shooting other CNN employees. Lighten up for gawd's sake. Maybe replace some of the regulars there who are past their expiration.

I am here for you Jake. Anderson, there is no shame in reaching out for help if it gets bad. If you need a hug, all you have to do is ask.

Sheesh. What the hell is the matter with everyone? They are so unfamiliar with free speech that is traumatizes them when they are unable to stop it.

And whatabout their townhall for dem candidates. Have they pre-determined that RFK cannot appear because they do not agree with him. How about Marianne Williamson? What if she starts talking about essential oils. You gonna use the baton on her and shut her down or not allow her to appear because CNN has not fact-checked essential oils so the voters are not allowed to hear about them?

Fake digital "townhalls." I grew up in rural New England where they have real town meetings, and things get plenty spirited there and free speech breaks out all over the place. The next day. Everything is fine. This used to be America. You have to hear lots of stuff you don't want to hear. Deal with it.

And here is a little newsflash for Anderson: Viewers already know that they have the right to not watch CNN and have been exercising it for years.

Anderson Cooper says CNN viewers ‘have every right to never watch this network again’ after Trump town hall

https://nypost.com/2023/05/12/ander...very-right-to-never-watch-this-network-again/
 
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A lot of change and apologizing going on over at CNN these days.

But things keep looking flaccid-er and flaccid-er.

Maybe Elon needs to buy that place out and re-organize it.

CNN CEO Chris Licht apologizes to staff during internal Monday morning call

Embattled CNN Chief Executive Chris Licht apologized to the news organization’s staff Monday morning during the cable news network’s 9 a.m. ET call, according to people familiar with the matter.

Licht told staffers he didn’t recognize himself in a 15,000-word profile story in The Atlantic that published Friday. The story documented his views on CNN’s coverage and his attempts at winning over staffers during his first year on the job.

Some CNN staffers saw the Licht magazine profile as showing poor judgment at a time when ratings are falling and employees are openly rebelling against his decision last month to air a Donald Trump town hall with hundreds of his cheering fans. Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav wasn’t pleased with the profile, titled “Inside the Meltdown at CNN,” and agreed it was mishandled, according to people familiar with his thinking.

Licht said during the call he understands staffers’ frustration and is intent on earning his employees’ trust, said the people. He didn’t specifically speak to why he participated in The Atlantic profile, in which reporter Tim Alberta spent months with Licht, including joining him at the gym during a personal training session and attending backstage CNN programming rehearsals. Licht’s remarks were short, said the people, who were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.

CNN CEO Chris Licht apologizes to staff during internal Monday morning call (msn.com)
 
TreeFrogTrader said:
A lot of change and apologizing going on over at CNN these days.

But things keep looking flaccid-er and flaccid-er.

Maybe Elon needs to buy that place out and re-organize it.

CNN CEO Chris Licht apologizes to staff during internal Monday morning call

Embattled CNN Chief Executive Chris Licht apologized to the news organization’s staff Monday morning during the cable news network’s 9 a.m. ET call, according to people familiar with the matter.

Licht told staffers he didn’t recognize himself in a 15,000-word profile story in The Atlantic that published Friday. The story documented his views on CNN’s coverage and his attempts at winning over staffers during his first year on the job.

Some CNN staffers saw the Licht magazine profile as showing poor judgment at a time when ratings are falling and employees are openly rebelling against his decision last month to air a Donald Trump town hall with hundreds of his cheering fans. Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav wasn’t pleased with the profile, titled “Inside the Meltdown at CNN,” and agreed it was mishandled, according to people familiar with his thinking.

Licht said during the call he understands staffers’ frustration and is intent on earning his employees’ trust, said the people. He didn’t specifically speak to why he participated in The Atlantic profile, in which reporter Tim Alberta spent months with Licht, including joining him at the gym during a personal training session and attending backstage CNN programming rehearsals. Licht’s remarks were short, said the people, who were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.

CNN CEO Chris Licht apologizes to staff during internal Monday morning call (msn.com)
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Just counting down the days until he is shoved out the door.
 
CNN not getting much good press today.

Works for me because CNN SUCKS.


How CNN Went From Bad to Worse

One way to make yourself look good is to keep pointing out the faults of your predecessor. Like Elon Musk at Twitter, CNN’s CEO Chris Licht loves to denigrate the previous management of his company. With both Musk and Licht, this is clearly an attempt at covering up their own failures.1

In February 2022, Licht was brought into replace Jeff Zucker, who was turfed as CEO over an alleged affair with a subordinate. But there is every reason to think that this infraction was merely a pretext in a larger political struggle at the network. Prior to Zucker’s forced resignation, the corporate overlords at Warner Bros. Discovery, CNN’s parent company, had been pointedly critical of what they saw as the network’s liberal bias against Donald Trump. In late 2021, right-wing billionaire John Malone, a commanding voice on the Warner Bros. Discovery board, explicitly called on CNN to take lessons from Fox News (an ironic injunction considering that lawsuits over election denial would document major journalistic malpractice at Fox). In a lengthy and revelatory profile in The Atlantic of Licht’s tumultuous tenure at CNN, journalist Tim Alberta notes that Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav “told numerous people that he needed an outsider to revamp CNN’s journalistic practices because Republican politicians had told him they were no longer willing to come on the network.”2

As Alberta’s profile makes clear, Licht was given a complex and even contradictory mission by his bosses. Ratings at CNN had been down since the end of the Trump presidency, so the network needed to attract more viewers. These viewers had to be of a particular sort: the Republican faithful that Trump had turned against CNN by labeling it fake news. So Licht saw it as his mission to tone down what he saw as the strident anti-Trump messaging of the Zucker years. Licht insists, though, that this goal is not just in the service of ratings but also of rebuilding public confidence in the media, thereby saving journalism.3

The dilemma Licht faced is that he was tasked with both making CNN more like Fox News—and also with making it more trusted. That’s an impossible job. (For one thing, according to polling, Fox is one of the most hated brands in America).4

In Licht’s defense, there’s plenty to criticize in Zucker’s regime. The problem is that Licht, embracing a stance of faux centrism that hides a reactionary agenda, criticizes Zucker for being excessively liberal. Zucker was in fact overwhelmingly interested in ratings. As I noted in a previous column, Zucker has fair claim to be one of the chief authors of Trump’s political career. Zucker had a long-standing business relationship with Trump going back to the creation of The Apprentice and knew the colorful real estate tycoon was good for ratings. Once Trump ran for office, he received unprecedented free media from CNN.5

Zucker’s attitude to Trump was widely shared in elite media circles. It was best expressed in 2016 by then CBS head Les Moonves, who told a business conference that Trump’s run for the presidency “may not be good for America, but it’s damn good for CBS.” Moonves added, “The money’s rolling in and this is fun. I’ve never seen anything like this, and this going to be a very good year for us. Sorry. It’s a terrible thing to say. But, bring it on, Donald. Keep going.” Moonves later claimed that these comments were a joke.6

After Trump was elected, he continued to be a profit source—but in a different way. At CNN, Zucker harnessed genuine popular outrage against Trump by making the network a haven for resistance voices, but almost always ones that were safely within the confines of elite centrist opinions. Thus the Russiagate narrative was elevated because it was a point of convergence for centrist Democrats such as Nancy Pelosi and Never Trump Republicans such as John McCain. When Trump’s handling of Covid became an issue, CNN dubiously upheld New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (whose brother was then a host at the network) as the voice for an alternative policy.7

How CNN Went From Bad to Worse (msn.com)
 
TreeFrogTrader said:
A lot of change and apologizing going on over at CNN these days.

But things keep looking flaccid-er and flaccid-er.

Maybe Elon needs to buy that place out and re-organize it.

CNN CEO Chris Licht apologizes to staff during internal Monday morning call

Embattled CNN Chief Executive Chris Licht apologized to the news organization’s staff Monday morning during the cable news network’s 9 a.m. ET call, according to people familiar with the matter.

Licht told staffers he didn’t recognize himself in a 15,000-word profile story in The Atlantic that published Friday. The story documented his views on CNN’s coverage and his attempts at winning over staffers during his first year on the job.

Some CNN staffers saw the Licht magazine profile as showing poor judgment at a time when ratings are falling and employees are openly rebelling against his decision last month to air a Donald Trump town hall with hundreds of his cheering fans. Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav wasn’t pleased with the profile, titled “Inside the Meltdown at CNN,” and agreed it was mishandled, according to people familiar with his thinking.

Licht said during the call he understands staffers’ frustration and is intent on earning his employees’ trust, said the people. He didn’t specifically speak to why he participated in The Atlantic profile, in which reporter Tim Alberta spent months with Licht, including joining him at the gym during a personal training session and attending backstage CNN programming rehearsals. Licht’s remarks were short, said the people, who were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.

CNN CEO Chris Licht apologizes to staff during internal Monday morning call (msn.com)
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Instead of emoting like a wimp to The Atlantic Magazine... he should have done what an old-school, ballsy, real CEO would have done.

Hire Tucker Carlson and put him in the 9PM slot.... with a required 3 appearance/week on whatever goat-rope morning forum they air there :cool:
 
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