CNN Chairman and CEO Chris Licht is out

[Doc Sportello]

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/07/media/chris-licht-cnn/index.html

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Chris Licht, the embattled chief executive and chairman of CNN, whose brief one-year tenure at the network was stained by a series of severe missteps, will depart the company.

“I met with Chris and he will be leaving CNN,” David Zaslav, the chief executive of parent company Warner Bros. Discovery, told CNN employees at the start of the network’s daily editorial call Wednesday.

Licht’s departure, which came days after a devastating 15,000-word profile in The Atlantic, capped a tumultuous year for CNN, marked by layoffs, historically low ratings, and rock-bottom employee morale.

[Effete Snob]

1. F-in Moron

[stumpysbear]

2. ETTD

[Doc Sportello]

5. True but more than dump here

Failure from the top too.

[bullimiami]

14. Yup he's not alone in this epic business failure.

[edisdead]

3. Good riddence

[Maru Kitteh]

4. My thanks to The Atlantic. nt

[BlueTsunami2018]

6. He did what he came to do.

Damage CNN’s reputation, probably irreparably.

The ridiculous hard right turn they took turned everyone off. The righties were never coming there, the left already held them in contempt and the centrists had nowhere to go anymore.

They should go to straight hard news with balanced opinion shows. No slant.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

17. The truth has a liberal bias.

[sinkingfeeling]

7. Unfortunately, David Zaslav is still running the show.

[Doc Sportello]

8. True

And billionaire right winger prime owner Malone is still behind the scenes.

[regnaD kciN]

23. I'm sure they'll bring in someone worse...

[Hugin]

9. Well, now there's a new age time unit to add to the Mooch.

The Licht... Which is about a year in metric time.

[lame54]

18. As in "He was fired at the speed of Licht."...

Or a Licht Year

[Blue Owl]

10. Hope the Clown Hall was worth it all

[hlthe2b]

11. He should be. But, there is little to suggest improvements are on the way...

[Johonny]

12. I'm sure they can find someone that can do worse

I trust David Zaslav to kill CNN once and for all.

[Baitball Blogger]

13. But, how big was the severance pay?

[pwb]

15. Maybe even more commercials will help?

[UTUSN]

16. Yip-PPPEEE!!!!!!!!!!!1 - things IS lookin'UP!!!!! - This not grave, but definitely DANCING!!!!

[Mike Nelson]

19. Well...

... maybe they can lure Chuck Todd over to replace him?

[budkin]

20. As long as Malone and Zaslav are calling the shots

It won’t matter.

[Doc Sportello]

22. Probably not but it may give them something to ponder

Better to stick with what you have than to have it go completely down the drain. They may have found out that this bothsiderim is tough when one of the sides is fascist and you have real journalists pushing back with facts as many on CNN did pre-Licht. Maybe they'll have it run by a true journalist, but probably not.

[Takket]

21. Great news! Power to the people

If you shut off right wing bullshit, you can help it go away.

TURN

IT

OFF

[lpbk2713]

24. CNN wanted to go red.

They found out they didn't go red the right way. They'll try it again with a different approach.

[mchill]

25. After binge watching Succession this week

This event takes on a whole new patina. Add in, apparently Chris Licht liked to one up Jeff Zucker with weight he could bench press.

[hibbing]

26. Well that was fun n/t

[uponit7771]

27. K&R,