CNN Chairman and CEO Chris Licht is out
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CNN Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Chris Licht is out, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter.
Licht, whose one-year tenure at the network has been marked by a series of controversies and missteps, departs after a devastating magazine profile that called into question his ability to lead the networks staff.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/07/media/chris-licht-cnn/index.html
underpants
(182,788 posts)underpants
(182,788 posts)peppertree
(21,627 posts)About the only sorry he's leaving, is tea-bag billionaire John Malone.
BumRushDaShow
(128,905 posts)By Elahe Izadi, Will Sommer and Jeremy Barr
June 7, 2023 at 9:02 a.m. EDT
Embattled CNN chief executive Chris Licht is out at the cable network, according to a perosn with knowledge of the situation, capping weeks of tumult within the company following a highly-criticized town hall with former president Donald Trump and a scathing article that portrayed the CEO as all but failing at leading the company.
Licht replaced former CEO Jeff Zucker, who was forced to resign in early 2022 as he cited an undisclosed relationship with a fellow executive.
Now Licht is out at the network, less than a week after the Atlantic published a roughly 15,000-word profile, in which Licht gave extensive access to reporter Tim Alberta, that all but declared that the executives short tenure has been a failure. The story also quoted Licht criticizing, among other things, CNNs past coverage of the coronavirus pandemic and disclosed shocking details on his handling of the Trump town hall.
On Monday, Licht apologized to his staff and pledged to work to regain their trust.
This is a breaking story that will be updated.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/06/07/chris-licht-leaves-cnn-town-hall-atlantic/
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Cha
(297,190 posts)Aviation Pro
(12,164 posts)YoshidaYui
(41,831 posts)IronLionZion
(45,433 posts)Ray Bruns
(4,093 posts)fargone
(111 posts)13 month stint.
Hugin
(33,135 posts)Have accumulated.
So, we should probably define a "Licht" as around forty "Mooches". That would be somewhere between twelve and thirteen "months" or a "Year" in metric time.
CaptainTruth
(6,589 posts)ZonkerHarris
(24,223 posts):highfive:
I walked that one out for you. Bam! To the moon, baby!
BumRushDaShow
(128,905 posts)and you win the Pinocchios prize!!!
sybylla
(8,509 posts)jaxexpat
(6,820 posts)autobiographical books blaming everyone else. Which makes it a "multi-tome", in Dewey Decimal Time.
But not even close to "Licht year". That's hall of fame stuff there. I bow thoroughly pun-ished.
units between Scaramuccis and Lichts are called Trusses.
calimary
(81,238 posts)moniss
(4,231 posts)ShazzieB
(16,389 posts)But as long as somebody else keeps track, I'm fine with it.
Hugin
(33,135 posts)Fuzzy math and it is best accomplished with a hat, cane, and some soft shoe.
EYESORE 9001
(25,932 posts)CNN paid Licht far more than he was worth, only to witness one fucking travesty after another. Who on CNNs board thought this was their guy to be in charge? How did he rise through corporate hierarchy to the top spot? Is incompetence part of the job description?
edhopper
(33,575 posts)owner of Warner Media and the one who wanted CNN to turn Right. Licht was doing what he was told to do.
EYESORE 9001
(25,932 posts)and sells to new owners who are actually interested in running a news org. Besides, who is in a position to know how much poor decision-making is attributable to Licht or micromanagement from owner?
edhopper
(33,575 posts)Warner Media has made one bad decision after another.
It won't end pretty.
getagrip_already
(14,742 posts)As musk proved, being a billionaire means you don't have to worry about losing a few billion if it hurts the libs.
He doesn't need to care about losing money. Even investors won't get anywhere suing him.
EYESORE 9001
(25,932 posts)is to see to it that they lose their billionaire status. Sounds good anyway.
getagrip_already
(14,742 posts)Let's say he is worth 10 b. He loses 2. He still has more money than he needs to make that 2 back without lifting a finger.
A billion is a very large number. Musk is being paid almost $50b from SpaceX and tesla. Let that sink in.
CNN is chump change to these guys. Losing their investment means nothing.
EYESORE 9001
(25,932 posts)GreenWave
(6,736 posts)put altered music on the capsule
Mars *is* the kind of place to raise your kids
In fact it reaches 70 many days a year
and plenty of aliens there to raise them, if you did...
Celerity
(43,339 posts)SAN FRANCISCO, CA - OCTOBER 07: Discovery Communications President and CEO David Zaslav (L) and Liberty Media's John Malone speak onstage during "TV, or Not TV" at the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on October 7, 2015 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Michael Kovac/Getty Images for Vanity Fair)
slightlv
(2,787 posts)what happened to my Science channel... and why it went the way of the History channel!!!!
calimary
(81,238 posts)Straight down the hall and OUT the door.
agingdem
(7,849 posts)It's called "the peter principal"
https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.investopedia.com%2Fterms%2Fp%2Fpeter-principle.asp&psig=AOvVaw2hbUVBsDSpWJCVBjYnZ9aM&ust=1686232030599000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CBAQjRxqFwoTCPjF7YCmsf8CFQAAAAAdAAAAABAE
krkaufman
(13,435 posts)That Licht was brought in from outside, rather than promoting from within, was one of his early negatives among the workforce.
edhopper
(33,575 posts)It was new owner David Slaslav who is the Trumper and wants CNN to be the new FoxNoise.
tenderfoot
(8,426 posts)His Commencement speech at BU is one of worst American Enterprise Institute TED talks I've ever heard. He deserved to get booed.
Mawspam2
(729 posts)Happy Hoosier
(7,296 posts)That reporter had best watch his back!
BComplex
(8,049 posts)to call out right wing bullshit every single time there is a chance to do so.
krkaufman
(13,435 posts)All spellings Ive see are David Zaslav; why the Sl substitution?
live love laugh
(13,104 posts)infullview
(981 posts)Paladin
(28,254 posts)Dopers_Greed
(2,640 posts)James O'Keefe perhaps?
Or even Alex Jones?
getagrip_already
(14,742 posts)Different old white guy, same message, same plan.
And yes, I'm an old white guy. But I won't be that old white guy.
FakeNoose
(32,634 posts)I'm gonna wait until some REAL news articles come out. Chris Licht was hired to do a job and he did it. The destruction of Ted Turner's cable news channel is complete. Now Licht is gone but the real Nazis are still running the company.
SouthernDem4ever
(6,617 posts)This doesn't mean they are giving up their new claim to fame as "fake news"
dweller
(23,629 posts)✌🏻
Roc2020
(1,615 posts)CNN should mimic the BBC and do hard news all day long on a loop.
krkaufman
(13,435 posts)And wear the lower viewership numbers as a badge of honor, working with some unbiased organization to develop an alternate metric and polling mechanism to strive for the most well-informed audience.
Raven123
(4,830 posts)Scrivener7
(50,949 posts)BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)When news divisions were absorbed into network entertainment divisions. Id welcome a return to real news. Im so sick of Infotainment posing as news.
BumRushDaShow
(128,905 posts)where it looped on the half hour. Then they changed formats and the name and called it "HLN", transforming it into a fluffy "lifestyle" and "social media" covering channel.
Recently they tried taking HLN back to "news" but I only popped in every once in awhile to see. But just discovered that HLN's attempt at doing news again was gutted once more this past December, and has now become a long-format "crime story" channel.
SouthernDem4ever
(6,617 posts)Repugs still hated it then too just like they hate all factual media.
SledDriver
(2,059 posts)TNN has a LOT to make up for before they can ever be considered a legitimate news network again.
I won't get my hopes up. They'll probably replace him with another MAGA cultist, just in time for 2024.
Bengus81
(6,931 posts)Screw em.........
Claustrum
(4,845 posts)Now they are losing the moderates/democrats too. Who do they think their audience are?
mchill
(1,018 posts)Right winger.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,176 posts)calimary
(81,238 posts)And hell stand alone in that, for sure. Nobody else will.
And the individual above him on the management tree, who thought hed be a great hire, should be next to go. Like, this afternoon. I hope theyre not gonna let him pick Lichts replacement. Once bitten, (SHOULD BE) twice shy.
ificandream
(9,372 posts)If you haven't read it ...
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2023/06/cnn-ratings-chris-licht-trump/674255/
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)ificandream
(9,372 posts)ificandream
(9,372 posts)Even going in, I thought CNN had been doing ok as far as their coverage goes. (I watch MSNBC, so I don't pay a lot of attention to it.) Licht, however, wanted to get CNN attention. He did it in spades. There are better ways to broaden your audience. Licht didn't have a clue how to do that. The Trump town hall was an unmitigated disaster. You don't give an attention whore like that free rein on a news channel, which is exactly what Licht did. People (except for the beloved Christiane Amanpour) seemed afraid to criticize him. When the Atlantic piece hit the fan, it spelled the end of the line. The people at CNN are breathing a sigh o relief today.
mchill
(1,018 posts)ificandream
(9,372 posts)I could watch CNN without grimacing (as I do if I ever turn on Fox). I didn't think it was as bad as some people do. But Licht really sank the anchor.
mchill
(1,018 posts)I did watch Erin Burnett and on occasion their other Prime time hosts, but MSNBC still my go to. When they fired Cuomo and Lemmon I got out of the habit of flipping over there and Erin Burnett left my psyche and I even liked her.
calimary
(81,238 posts)Last edited Wed Jun 7, 2023, 09:20 PM - Edit history (1)
Im actually surprised they kept him this long. What a bad move bringing him in, to begin with.
And Brian Stelter was one of my favorites.
PortTack
(32,762 posts)Have tfg on for a town hall, then when ratings fell further to almost unseen levels, they blame him.
Not defending him, hes complicit and could have said no, or Ill leave but instead looked at the money and followed orders.
The proof will be in what happens next. Do they continue to going to the right, away from the truth and actual news? Or ..do they pivot and start actually broadcasting news.
Sky Jewels
(7,087 posts)Mr. Sparkle
(2,932 posts)that was a terrible mistake and a complete lack of judgment.
llmart
(15,536 posts)was the nail in his coffin?
DU'ers could have told him that everything tfg touches is damaged and/or dies.
Butterflylady
(3,543 posts)NewHendoLib
(60,014 posts)Sky Jewels
(7,087 posts)Crowman2009
(2,495 posts)Cha
(297,190 posts)Out, Licht.
TY
NCjack
(10,279 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,590 posts)Permanent boycott!
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sellitman
(11,606 posts)Hope the mattress has fleas.
BigmanPigman
(51,590 posts)Or will David Slaslav/Warner Media continue to ruin everything he touches?
Skittles
(153,160 posts)DON'T BLOW IT