THIS IS CNN: Don Lemon goes berserker on Kaitlan Collins

From the way outside looking in, I'd say a couple things about CNN:

>Anderson Cooper does so many things for seemingly so many different news orgs that you could turn on any of like 7 channels during the day and see him there. In that way, CNN shares its biggest star in a way that Fox does not share, say, Hannity. Or MSNBC does not share Maddow, who - and maybe I'm wrong here - isn't going to turn up on Kelly Ripa's show for a week of hosting.

>Cuomo had to go, but his departure hurt the overall lineup.

>There are people on panels who might be better hosts than the hosts.

 

*on assignment*

 

Shafer.

How Chris Licht Crashed at CNN

 

Uhh, not that Mike Harris, though. Carry on.

 

Or the other one.

 

Fun read.

 

Licht “lost” the newsroom, as people like to put it when the newsroom rebels against a new boss. A similar thing happened to Howell Raines, who was essentially ousted as executive editor of the New York Times by the newsroom in 2003 after 21 months at the top after proving charm deficient. Employees tend to resist new bosses unless given a reason to embrace them. Raines, and now Licht, provided no such reason, and suffered for it. Journalists love to complain, and they love to leak on their bosses when peeved.


Yep.

 

God forbid the leadership class not get to abuse the serfs with impunity.

 

Sort of.

Howell's problem wasn't only a deficiency of charm.

Howell's problem was Jayson Blair.

 

The CNN talent in question is leadership class.