Brand new CNN boss Chris Licht, the man who has now been tapped to replace Jeff Zucker after his humiliating fall from grace, is now reportedly determined to take the uber-liberal network in a new and more respectable direction.
As The Wall Street Journal reports:
More than a decade later, Mr. Licht, 50 years old, is taking over a network racked with anxiety over the departure of his predecessor, long-serving CNN President Jeff Zucker —who resigned Feb. 2, citing his failure to disclose a consensual relationship with a colleague. The abrupt exit led several high-profile anchors, who were hired by Mr. Zucker and are personally loyal to him, to grill Jason Kilar, the CEO of CNN parent WarnerMedia, over why Mr. Zucker had to leave.
Mr. Licht’s tenure will begin during a pivotal moment for the network. CNN is planning to launch CNN+, which will be the cable news network’s beachhead in the video-streaming wars. Ratings have fallen following the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election. WarnerMedia, currently a unit of AT&T Inc., is preparing to merge with Discovery, a deal that will put the HBO Max streaming service under the same corporate umbrella as “90 Day Fiancé.”
The network faces uncertainty over the future of its programming under Mr. Licht, a veteran producer whose credits include “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” and “CBS This Morning.”
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Mr. Licht, who declined to be interviewed for this article, has told confidants that he plans to adjust the network’s programming mix to include more hard news and less opinion programming, according to people familiar with the matter.
Zucker resigned from the network after it was revealed that he had been engaging in an affair with a subordinate at the company who had previously worked for former disgraced Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo.
Ya we’ll see
Liberals seldom change their spots!
Not until they need a wall around their house or police protection, their electric car catches fire, one of the illegals they let in rapes their wife or daughter or sells them Fentynal.
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DID anyone ever tell you to take your spam shit and go shove it?
Wouldn’t watch regardless of any changes for the better, if that’s even possible…
not me as i’ve never watched cnn!
So Chris Licht has produced “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” and “CBS This Morning,” both Communist sympathizing programs – So what big change is this Democratic agenda follower going to make?!?!?!? People who believe it’ll be better are delusional. It’s going to be more of the same. Get your news on the internet through OAN or Newsmax!!! Support those who stand up for the truth!
I agree, CNN needs to site the actual news, as its happening, and not the opinion of the commentator, you often distorts the actual story. Good for him, if he follows thru.
Big IF!
I was just about to reply the same thing.
Cite.
If he was running COL-BERRT’s show, he can’t be much because that a******* is an IDIOT! Will he fire Humpty Dumpty who lies in every comment he makes?
Why? Wouldn’t it easier just to let CNN go out of business on their own? That way you won’t have to pay off the contracts of the people you fire.
I hope you tell the news truthfully and I would listen to the news, but the main media I don’t believe in them it’s all one sided
Let’s start with in depth investigative content. Longer segments not snippets and stop interrupting a clip to say what the person in the clip is about to say. DON’T ANSWER THE 4:30 AM “MOCKINGBIRD” PHONE CALL. Opinions are like A…..S everybody has one.
And CNN seems to have a lot of them . A**.oles that is !
Let’s hope Lictner does a better job than Zucker. Report the news not your opinion of how much you hate Donald Trump and his supporters
Don’t tell me. Show me
Better said than my comment, for sure!
I like this guy already!
Does that mean Joy Reid will be fired soon? We hope?
Mr. Licht is credited with the “The Late Show With StephenColbert. Again, tell me was does CNN call Hard News. Sounds like the same old sh….
You couldn’t lure me back to that station if you tried. A leopard doesn’t change its spots. CNN showed me who they are.
Too late, CNN already went over Niagara Falls in a barrel they can’t go back upstream!
all of the reporters and the editors and their chief along with the ownership need to be held accountable for fake news brainwashing people with Trump Derangement Syndrome. This was the real insurrection that continued until the installation of the puppet 46
I don’t think Zucker was fired over the affair….I think they wanted to get rid of him because CNN’s ratings are in the tank and the affair excuse sounded better than that their news program stinks and people weren’t tuning in….they just didn’t want to admit they failed and people didn’t like them…..but they’re going to have to clean house if they want a fresh start…..their newscasters suck….and are not sane…..
Really purge the whole channel A-Z
I don’t think that will happen. Liberal journalists are well dug in, and will defend with lawsuits over their positions of wealth and power.
Anyone who would give cnn trust again has lousy boundaries and will fall for anything.
Then fire leftist staffers alone, change news Div or sell, merge operations
,cut staffing
well its a start. not that it will change but at least he admitted the Organization was OPINION based and not Journalism.
I’ll believe that AFTER it happens, and wayward journalists FIRED for incompetence and lies. I am a born skeptic, and I believe that his stance is nothing more than political showboating. I want proof before promises.