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Chris Licht is out at CNN [1]
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Date: 2023-06-07
From The NY Times:
Chris Licht, the former television producer who oversaw a brief and chaotic tenure as the chairman of CNN, is out at the network, according to a person briefed on the decision. Mr. Licht’s 13-month run at CNN was marked by one controversy after another, culminating in his exit earlier this week. He got off to a bumpy start even before he had officially started when he oversaw the shuttering of the pricey CNN+ streaming service at the request of its network’s new owners, who were skeptical about a stand-alone digital product. The cuts resulted in scores of layoffs. Warner Bros. Discovery, CNN’s parent company, did not respond to a request for comment. Mr. Licht’s departure represents a dramatic fall not long after he departed as an executive producer of Stephen Colbert’s top-rated late night show and vowed to bring a middle-of-the-road balance to CNN’s journalism. When Mr. Licht took the job, he told friends it was a “calling.”
That’s the info so far; the Times promises it will be updated as the story develops.
To give a quick summary of the rise and fall of Licht, when CNN came under new ownership, it also came under the aegis of people who felt the network was too ‘liberal’ and wanted a ‘correction’ to make it more ‘balanced’. (As the NY Times quotes Licht, that’s middle-of-the-road balance) Hence the love-fest Town Hall for Trump packed with his supporters.
Licht did what he could to please his new masters; including eliminating shows and reporters that were deemed too ‘left’ along with big layoffs. It will be interesting to see what he has to say if and when he feels free to talk about what happened.
When you’re in the middle of the road, expect to become road kill.
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