CNN Staff Fears Right-Wing Billionaire Will Turn It Into a Dumpster Fire

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37. you have done nothing to debunk the article, you just make ad hominem arguments and try to

introduce FUD.

I also showed you where Cartwright has repeatedly went after the Murdochs.

You seem pretty invested in trying to deny that Malone, Zaslav, and Licht are already have a deleterious impact on CNN and taking actions and making statements in terms of sliding it to the right.

His story is classic clickbait.

Nope, and TBD is hardly the only media outlet running with this.



From February:

Trump Donor John Malone Could Soon Be Calling Shots at CNN

https://fair.org/home/trump-donor-john-malone-could-soon-be-calling-shots-at-cnn/




and more recently


CNN Boss Chris Licht Warns Anxious Staffers Over “More Changes” After Axing Of ‘Reliable Sources’ And Exit Of Brian Stelter

https://deadline.com/2022/08/cnn-firings-brian-stelter-chris-licht-john-malone-warner-bros-discovery-1235096292/



CNN's new CEO met with GOP lawmakers to promise CNN will become more Republican

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/8/19/2117719/-CNN-s-new-CEO-met-with-GOP-lawmakers-to-promise-CNN-will-become-more-Republican



EPISODE 16: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN 8.22.22

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-16-countdown-with-keith-olbermann-8-22-22/id1633301179?i=1000576896358

https://barrettsportsmedia.com/2022/08/23/keith-olbermann-cnn-boss-chris-licht-is-a-corporate-butt-kisser/

“[Chris Licht] is the evil corporate butt kisser Frank Hackett from the classic movie “Network” come to life,” Olbermann said. “Thursday, Licht let it leak that he was canceling CNN’s 30-year-old media show Reliable Sources and firing its host Brian Stelter, who is a bet noir of the fascist crowd.

“Friday, Licht complained the story leaked, and he also told staffers, ‘there will be more changes, and you might not understand it or like it at all.'” Olbermann then went after Warner Bros. Discovery President David Zaslav for his repeated desire to be a centrist network and want the network to be a home for Democrats and Republicans.

However, Olbermann adds that those on the right have rejected mainstream outlets, some even moving away from Fox News. “Plus, there’s Licht’s boss David Zaslav, who previously said America needs a news network where everybody can come and be heard; Republicans, Democrats,” Olbermann said.

“The stupidity of that, of course, is that Republicans long ago rejected CNN, MSNBC, NBC, ABC, CBS, Washington Post, New York Post, Associated Press, Agence France-Presse. They’ve even now begun to reject Fox.”

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NPR’s Eric Deggans Warns CNN Against Creating ‘False Equivalence’ Between Left- and Right-Wing Politics

https://www.thewrap.com/npr-eric-deggans-warns-cnn-false-equivalence-left-right-video/

NPR’s Eric Deggans has some concern about the more apolitical direction that CNN is seeking under its new boss Chris Licht, saying on the network, “I hope that what we’re not going to see CNN do is institute some sort of false equivalence.”

On the final episode of“Reliable Sources” Sunday, the NPR TV critic said he thinks the problem with the perception of the media right now is the lens through which it looks at today’s politics and the lack of accountability for politicians who break the law or use damaging rhetoric.

“The problem is that people put a political lens on top of something that is about preserving democracy and about holding politicians accountable,” Deggans said during his segment on Brian Stelter’s final show, which was canceled last week. “When you have one politician who’s denouncing the press as the enemy of the people. When you have one politician who insists that he won an election that he did not win. When you have one politician who’s blaming immigrants unfairly for America’s ills, you have to have a journalism apparatus that is free to call out those excesses, without fear of being accused of being unfair. And I think that’s the problem.”

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Brian Stelter rebukes CNN on final show: ‘It’s not partisan to stand up to demagogues’

Host says, ‘It is not partisan to stand up for decency and democracy and dialogue,’ after CNN cancels media show Reliable Sources

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/aug/22/brian-stelter-cnn-cancels-show-reliable-sources

Brian Stelter, host of CNN’s media affairs show Reliable Sources which was cancelled last week after 30 years on air, used his final episode on Sunday to make a pointed rebuke of the network’s new bosses and their intention to pursue a more “neutral voice” to its coverage.

“It is not partisan to stand up for decency and democracy and dialogue,” Stelter said in his final monologue, which he stressed was unvetted by CNN management before he delivered it live. “It is not partisan to stand up to demagogues – it’s required, it’s patriotic.” He added: “We must make sure we do not give a platform to those who are lying to our faces.”

CNN gave Stelter his marching orders last Wednesday, just four months after the network came under new leadership appointed by its owners, Warner Brothers Discovery. CNN head Chris Licht, who took over after the February departure of Jeff Zucker, has indicated that he wants to tone down the opinion quotient of its shows and “return” to an older, straighter and in his view less overtly leftwing style of reporting.

It is perhaps predictable that Stelter was to become one of the first casualties among CNN’s stars under the new leadership. As NPR’s media correspondent, David Folkenflik, explained, Stelter was a thorn in the side of the Donald Trump White House, regularly exposing its lies and misinformation. As a result, he was “targeted for frequent criticism from conservatives for his coverage of the media during the Trump years”.

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