New CNN CEO Chris Licht has chopped off some leftist heads recently. But he comes from the Colbert/Morning Joe school of news. Which way will he ultimately go? Joe Concha opines.
In under a week:
Liz Cheney loses in a landslide
Brian Stelter is fired from CNN
Fauci resigns after 50 years
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) August 22, 2022
Concha: Well, we could see this firing coming from 10 miles away. Brian Stelter sealed his own fate when he, somehow thinking he was untouchable, attacked a very important person at Discovery with what one could only call hubris and sanctimony. And remember, Discovery is the company who took over CNN. Here’s Stelter earlier this year: “The people who say the Zucker era, CNN, was lacking in real journalism clearly were not watching CNN directly. And yes, I’m including John Malone in this one.” So who is John Malone? He’s Discovery’s largest shareholder and one of the most powerful people in Stelter’s incoming orbit. And this media correspondent basically calls him a misinformed idiot in public while making the laughable claim that the Zucker era featured real journalism and not the hyper-partisan, patronizing, and, quite frankly, cheesy performance art that we witnessed from some CNN talent over the last seven years. And there’s a reason why CNN overall has lost 75% of its audience since Joe Biden took office. Ted Koppel predicted this would happen. He said When Trump leaves the stage, your ratings are going to go in the toilet. And Stelter lectured Koppel, a real journalist, on why he was wrong. That wraps up basically everything I’m trying to say here…
It was one of the more predictable things you’ll see in an otherwise unpredictable media world. CNN’s chief media correspondent Brian Stelter was booted from the network last week after nine years there.
He had never worked in television before or hosted a show in any capacity, but the network gave him “Reliable Sources” anyway, which is now canceled.
As the years went by, Stelter became more and more partisan, with some reports saying he was simply serving as a mouthpiece for his now former boss, Jeff Zucker.
On the ironically titled program “Reliable Sources,” most guests simply echoed the worldview of its host, while Stelter’s kid gloves treatment of guests hostile to anyone remotely on the right, and especially former President Trump, were the stuff of legend.
So now the smart money is he’ll be off to MSNBC or Media Matters or the New York Times – three condescending and partisan institutions that would be a perfect fit. But what does this mean overall for CNN?
On one hand, this could mean they are actually pivoting towards more journalism – less towards activism and back to the relative middle.
But, on the other hand, Chris Licht, CNN’s new president, was the executive producer for Stephen Colbert’s show, and before that MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” with Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski.
So it all depends on who he hires to backfill the Stelters and Jeffrey Toobins of the world.
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Whatever direction cnnlol takes in the future, their reputation will be one of distrust. It will take decades for cnnlol to get back to the level of trust they had in the first Iraq war with Bernard Shaw.
Have to totally Purge CNN or purge polices for Real change