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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'We Want To Win Back Your Trust': New CNN Boss Chris Licht Makes Groveling 'Apology Tour' To GOP
We Want To Win Back Your Trust: New CNN Boss Chris Licht Makes Groveling Apology Tour To GOP Lawmakers On Capitol HillWhile Licht was appointed to save the struggling network from a slew of scandals that included not only Zucker and Gollusts resignations but also the abrupt firing of Chris Cuomo, the 50-year-old newsman and producer was also appointed to rescue CNN from a plague of plummeting ratings.
That is why, in mid-July, Licht reportedly secretly met with a number of Republicans on the first floor of the U.S. Capitol building in an effort to convince the lawmakers to return as guests on CNN.
In fact, according to the Washington Free Beacon, Licht had one simple message for the Republican lawmakers: We want to win back your trust..Although Lichts meetings and conversations with Republicans at the Capitol last week largely remained private, lawmakers who spoke to the Washington Free Beacon told the outlet that the new CNN chief pleaded for them to return to the air on the network and that he promised they would be treated fairly.
https://radaronline.com/p/cnn-boss-chris-licht-apology-tour-gop-lawmakers-capitol-hill/
elleng
(130,126 posts)We want to win back your trust,' hence guaranteeing I'll 'never' watch.
Luciferous
(6,067 posts)jimfields33
(15,450 posts)They literally dont have viewers. Sometimes the home renovation channel beats them. This is a last chance desperation. It will not work.
elleng
(130,126 posts)jimfields33
(15,450 posts)cbabe
(3,438 posts)DonCoquixote
(13,615 posts)mr. Licht, FUCK YOU! The GOP already has a channel, and frankly since they use it to scream at the top of their voice, you do not need to do much to hear them. Keep in mind, if Trump or Desantis wins, people like you will be the first on the gop hit list!
dalton99a
(81,065 posts)Donald Trump and CNN president Jeff Zucker
ZZenith
(4,109 posts)Four years of not calling the Trump abomination a complete abomination and they are apologizing to conservatives?!
Gotta have those sweet, sweet advertising dollars, no matter the cost to the public welfare.
halfulglas
(1,654 posts)Just when you thought they would try to get back to normal. Are any GOP asses wet from the kissing?
JHB
(37,128 posts)Much shorter list.
Timewas
(2,174 posts)Watching CNN long time ago, and this sure as hell won't entice me to going back
UTUSN
(70,494 posts)blm
(112,919 posts)One of RevMoons favorite church sons and a most favored reporter. Bill Gertz. Wrote up a lot of the pro-war propaganda for Bush-Cheney.
Got caught in a money scandal in recent years.
onecaliberal
(32,471 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Now do Howard Dean.
Earth-shine
(3,848 posts)dweller
(23,558 posts)✌🏻
brush
(53,467 posts)leaked out and even more people stop watching...including me.
dchill
(38,315 posts)...or a dick move. Either way, it's pretty coprophilic.
Bettie
(15,997 posts)and say it's all the Democrats, Republicans are the 'good guys'. Noted.
Bev54
(9,957 posts)Bettie
(15,997 posts)I only use CNN once in a while online for breaking news.
Got to stop that, but is there even a media outlet that doesn't constantly fluff the right wing while denigrating Democrats for, um, existing?
Bev54
(9,957 posts)If I want "news" I watch Canadian news along with BBC and Al Jazeera because sometimes we just need to get away from the politics.
EnergizedLib
(1,886 posts)Just what have they done exactly to have their trust coveted?
Blue Owl
(49,902 posts)Mme. Defarge
(7,981 posts)their coverage of our withdrawal from Afghanistan.
RANDYWILDMAN
(2,644 posts)maybe news is not exciting and profitable!!!!!!!!!
ymetca
(1,182 posts)You mean the Exxon Pfizer channel ain't got no viewers no more?
I'm shocked, SHOCKED, I tell you!
Tree Lady
(11,370 posts)So much free time. Are they gearing up to do it again?
Just realized this is my 10,000th post and I was going to save it, lol.
Took me long enough 18 years!
FlyingPiggy
(3,373 posts)What a trash station w moronic leadership.
renate
(13,776 posts)I dont even mind it when they have reasonable, sane GOPers on. Its useful to hear from people who have different points of view. And when they have argumentative, mendacious asswipe GOPers on, I just reach for the remote.
Justice
(7,182 posts)Gross.
Justice
(7,182 posts)herding cats
(19,549 posts)I don't need anyone to tell me how I feel about what's happening. Which has been their whole schtick for ages now.
Bye! Don't miss you.
DET
(1,266 posts)I stopped watching CNN when they insisted on having repulsive GOPers like Rick Santorum and especially some whiny red haired nobody whose name I cant remember but who was aggressively aggravating on to present their alternative facts. I came back when they finally got rid of those people and some semblance of sanity was restored. But lately theyve been reintroducing the fakes and liars and I just cant deal with it any more. I dont know what they think they are accomplishing; the MAGAts are not going to watch CNN and they are driving away their core audience.
DFW
(54,047 posts)Every time Hillary had something important to say, CNN showed a 30 second excerpt. Every time Trump had something incoherent to say, they showed it for 25 minutes uninterrupted. "Treated fairly," my ass.
My wife, who is German, picked up on this long before I did, and she said (this was in July!!!), "you have a big problem here, and none of you see it."
If even more Republican money flows to CNN than already does, MSNBC, for better or for worse is the only game in town.
If the USA had a balanced media, the Republicans would be lucky to get 30% of the votes nationwide, and Hillary would be in the home stretch of her very successful second term. The Supreme Court would have a make-up of 6-3 with Alito, Thomas and Roberts gnashing their teeth and not us.
Demsrule86
(68,347 posts)JHB
(37,128 posts)It's not a matter of "trust", it's a matter of "sides". If you are insufficiently vigorous in cheering their side, you get demonized. That's what's at work here, and groveling won't get you anywhere.
Hotler
(11,353 posts)about it.
AZLD4Candidate
(5,558 posts)By Kissing Up to Republican Grifters, Liars, and Traitors
Baggies
(503 posts)CNN created their own problems. They wont talk or beg their way out of it.
BannonsLiver
(16,161 posts)arthritisR_US
(7,269 posts)Network that will air the rws lies and probably let the lies fly unchallenged