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tulipsandroses

(5,092 posts)
Wed Aug 3, 2022, 10:20 PM Aug 2022

'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 Hill


CNN chairman and CEO Chris Licht is desperately trying to win back Republican viewers by having GOP lawmakers return as guests to the network, Radar has learned.As RadarOnline.com previously reported, Licht was named head of CNN in April nearly three months after his predecessor, Jeff Zucker, was forced to resign from the network in disgrace for failing to disclose his relationship with fellow network executive Allison Gollust.

While Licht was appointed to save the struggling network from a slew of scandals that included not only Zucker and Gollust’s 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 Licht’s 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/
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'We Want To Win Back Your Trust': New CNN Boss Chris Licht Makes Groveling 'Apology Tour' To GOP (Original Post) tulipsandroses Aug 2022 OP
Oh GROSS! elleng Aug 2022 #1
That was my initial reaction as well! Luciferous Aug 2022 #4
I believe they are close to shutting down. jimfields33 Aug 2022 #21
Interesting. I don't think I've 'ever' watched CNN. elleng Aug 2022 #22
Not missing much. jimfields33 Aug 2022 #24
Advertising dollars he means. cbabe Aug 2022 #2
with all due respect DonCoquixote Aug 2022 #3
Getting Trump Elected Wasn't Enough? dalton99a Aug 2022 #5
I sincerely thought they were addressing liberals until I got to the end of the headline. ZZenith Aug 2022 #6
Oh crap. halfulglas Aug 2022 #7
Better to ask if there are any that are NOT wet from the kissing. JHB Aug 2022 #13
I quit Timewas Aug 2022 #8
With friends like him & Jon, what does Stephen say? UTUSN Aug 2022 #9
Washington Free Beacon started by Moonies. blm Aug 2022 #10
I haven't watched CNN for years. onecaliberal Aug 2022 #11
Great job Chris gratuitous Aug 2022 #12
I occasionally watch CNN. This will make me watch less. Earth-shine Aug 2022 #14
FAKE NEWS !1! dweller Aug 2022 #15
Pathetic. He'll be fired much quicker now that this has... brush Aug 2022 #16
Not sure if that's an asshole move... dchill Aug 2022 #17
So, they are going to stop with the both sides Bettie Aug 2022 #18
They have already gone to that narrative. I quit them Bev54 Aug 2022 #27
Since we don't have cable anymore Bettie Aug 2022 #36
Not sure really, I watch certain programs on MSNBC but others I avoid Bev54 Aug 2022 #44
Oh, please EnergizedLib Aug 2022 #19
What a fucking pathetic toilet-licker Blue Owl Aug 2022 #20
CNN has been dead to me since Mme. Defarge Aug 2022 #23
Create sweet fake news to draw repubs back ????? WTF are they thinking RANDYWILDMAN Aug 2022 #25
What? ymetca Aug 2022 #26
That's BS after what they did giving Trump Tree Lady Aug 2022 #28
Well, proves I made the right decision to turn off CNN a few years back FlyingPiggy Aug 2022 #29
I watch CNN *shrug* renate Aug 2022 #30
Wow. Justice Aug 2022 #31
Why not just say you'll tell the truth? Report the facts? Justice Aug 2022 #32
Makes me all the more happy I dumped cable news. herding cats Aug 2022 #33
Why? DET Aug 2022 #34
I remember CNN's coverage of the 2016 election campaign DFW Aug 2022 #35
They never had GOP viewers...and they have shit on Democratic viewers...well who cares about them. Demsrule86 Aug 2022 #37
Sorry, Licht, but you can't win their "trust" without losing everyone elses' JHB Aug 2022 #38
Giving voice to the fascist party. Turn off CNN. And let them and their advertisers know Hotler Aug 2022 #39
Translated: CNN New Boss Going To Reinforce Attitude that CNN is "Certainly Not News" AZLD4Candidate Aug 2022 #40
That won't work. Baggies Aug 2022 #41
All cable news is shit. BannonsLiver Aug 2022 #42
This is BS! The net result will be another arthritisR_US Aug 2022 #43

jimfields33

(15,450 posts)
21. I believe they are close to shutting down.
Wed Aug 3, 2022, 11:09 PM
Aug 2022

They literally don’t have viewers. Sometimes the home renovation channel beats them. This is a last chance desperation. It will not work.

DonCoquixote

(13,615 posts)
3. with all due respect
Wed Aug 3, 2022, 10:23 PM
Aug 2022

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!

ZZenith

(4,109 posts)
6. I sincerely thought they were addressing liberals until I got to the end of the headline.
Wed Aug 3, 2022, 10:26 PM
Aug 2022

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.

blm

(112,919 posts)
10. Washington Free Beacon started by Moonies.
Wed Aug 3, 2022, 10:31 PM
Aug 2022

One of RevMoon’s 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.

brush

(53,467 posts)
16. Pathetic. He'll be fired much quicker now that this has...
Wed Aug 3, 2022, 10:40 PM
Aug 2022

leaked out and even more people stop watching...including me.

Bettie

(15,997 posts)
18. So, they are going to stop with the both sides
Wed Aug 3, 2022, 10:47 PM
Aug 2022

and say it's all the Democrats, Republicans are the 'good guys'. Noted.

Bettie

(15,997 posts)
36. Since we don't have cable anymore
Thu Aug 4, 2022, 08:46 AM
Aug 2022

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)
44. Not sure really, I watch certain programs on MSNBC but others I avoid
Thu Aug 4, 2022, 11:11 AM
Aug 2022

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.

RANDYWILDMAN

(2,644 posts)
25. Create sweet fake news to draw repubs back ????? WTF are they thinking
Wed Aug 3, 2022, 11:21 PM
Aug 2022

maybe news is not exciting and profitable!!!!!!!!!

Tree Lady

(11,370 posts)
28. That's BS after what they did giving Trump
Thu Aug 4, 2022, 12:17 AM
Aug 2022

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)
29. Well, proves I made the right decision to turn off CNN a few years back
Thu Aug 4, 2022, 12:23 AM
Aug 2022

What a trash station w moronic leadership.

renate

(13,776 posts)
30. I watch CNN *shrug*
Thu Aug 4, 2022, 12:32 AM
Aug 2022

I don’t even mind it when they have reasonable, sane GOPers on. It’s 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.

herding cats

(19,549 posts)
33. Makes me all the more happy I dumped cable news.
Thu Aug 4, 2022, 12:46 AM
Aug 2022

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)
34. Why?
Thu Aug 4, 2022, 12:57 AM
Aug 2022

I stopped watching CNN when they insisted on having repulsive GOPers like Rick Santorum and especially some whiny red haired nobody whose name I can’t 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 they’ve been reintroducing the fakes and liars and I just can’t deal with it any more. I don’t 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)
35. I remember CNN's coverage of the 2016 election campaign
Thu Aug 4, 2022, 01:04 AM
Aug 2022

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.

JHB

(37,128 posts)
38. Sorry, Licht, but you can't win their "trust" without losing everyone elses'
Thu Aug 4, 2022, 08:59 AM
Aug 2022

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.

AZLD4Candidate

(5,558 posts)
40. Translated: CNN New Boss Going To Reinforce Attitude that CNN is "Certainly Not News"
Thu Aug 4, 2022, 09:22 AM
Aug 2022

By Kissing Up to Republican Grifters, Liars, and Traitors

arthritisR_US

(7,269 posts)
43. This is BS! The net result will be another
Thu Aug 4, 2022, 10:11 AM
Aug 2022

Network that will air the rw’s lies and probably let the lies fly unchallenged

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