THIS IS CNN: Don Lemon goes berserker on Kaitlan Collins

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...ke-centrism-cnn-chris-licht-atlantic-profile/

In a roughly 15,000-word profile published last week by the Atlantic, CNN chief executive Chris Licht, who has complained that the network’s journalists were too opinionated when Donald Trump was president, gave a lot of, well, opinions.

He expressed skepticism about defunding the police and about using trans-inclusive language when referring to people who give birth to children. He implied people of color with Harvard degrees don’t add diversity to newsrooms and suggested that the news media should have more reporters who are religious, who own guns and who lived on food stamps as kids. He speculated that covid-19 deaths might have been overcounted by public officials. He said journalists should not “virtue signal” and that it’s hard to have “difficult conversations without being demonized or labeled.”

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Licht’s comments embody an anti-woke centrism that is increasingly prominent in American media and politics today, particularly among powerful White men who live on the coasts and don’t identify as Republicans or conservatives. It’s deeply flawed, and it’s pushing some important U.S. institutions to make bad decisions.

 

Why would Chris Licht post here as Alma?

 

sad trombone

 

Why people think getting within 10 feet of Trump is a good move is beyond me. You could write a book on all the people's he's screwed over, stiffed, gotten fired, fired and faced dire legal consequences. Add Licht to the list.
My bet is that anyone who can actually do something with CNN will say no, and keep saying no unless they get a "zero interference" contract from Zaslav and Malone. And the sad truth is, there a few people in the TV news business these days with enough clout, experience and proven successs to move the needle - new sets? new graphics? That's not going to do it.

 

CNN would be wise to give her the full-time role. She knows the newsroom.

 

thread

 

They just announced his departure on air. That was fast.

 

Fox would have just just said Licht is on a previously scheduled day off.

 

The first flaw in the plan emerges.

 

Thoughts and prayers for Trumpist takeover of CNN.