CNN names former BBC, New York Times exec Mark Thompson as new CEO https://politicaliq.com/2023/08/30/cnn-names-former-bbc-new-york-times-exec-as-new-ceo/ #CNN #MarkThompson #BBC #NYTimes #ChrisLicht #CableNews #DigitalTransformation #politicaliq #news #politics

by #AlexShephard in #TheNewRepublic:

"The problems started on Tuesday, when it was reported that WarnerDiscovery had laid off TCM’s leadership team, many of whom had been at the network for years, including its heads of studio production, programming, and marketing. TCM general manager Pola Chagnon also departed, after more than two decades with the network. One industry insider described the team to Vulture as 'the people who’ve been the architect of the brand for decades.' Moreover, they weren’t being replaced—and TCM was not going to be led by someone with a history in film preservation. Instead, Michael Ouweleen, who currently leads Cartoon Network, would be at the helm."

https://newrepublic.com/article/173899/made-mess-cnn-now-hes-ruining-turner-classic-movies-too

#TCM #DavidZaslav #ChrisLicht

https://news.northeastern.edu/2023/06/07/chris-licht-leaving-cnn/ #CNN #news #ChrisLicht

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/goodbye-cnns-chris-licht-but-whats

#ChrisLicht #CNN

"The problem, unfortunately, was that you cannot credibly report on US politics in 2023 without acknowledging that much of the Republican Party has been epistemically captured by anti-democratic forces. The only people served by the executive decision to pretend that it’s still 1990 and both sides of the aisle are basically normal are right-wing operators who seek to exploit the reportorial “view from nowhere” for their own gain."

https://slate.com/business/2023/06/chris-licht-cnn-fired-objectivity-trump.html #USpol #CNN #ChrisLicht

Jezebel: Sex. Celebrity. Politics. With Teeth: So, the Big 'Vanderpump Reunion' Reveal Was Just...Tom Sandoval Lied A Lot? https://jezebel.com/vanderpump-rules-reunion-tom-sandoval-scandoval-ariana-1850518077 #Jezebel #entertainment2cculture #televisionseries #tomsandovallied #vanderpumprules #alandershowitz #lisavanderpump #businesspeople #levisssandoval #britishpeople #humaninterest #tomsandoval #scheanashay #arianamadix #elliotpage #chrislicht #alexbaskin #sandoval #donlemon #leviss #martha

"There’s little evidence that these will be the takeaways from this debacle. But it sure would be pretty to think so."

#CNN #ChrisLicht #BothSidesism #MediaFail
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"Perhaps the biggest cheeses at CNN have learned the right lessons: that you can’t “both sides” your way into ratings success. That there is no vast political middle just waiting to be entranced by performative neutrality. And, most of all, that good journalism has nothing to do with sucking up to would-be authoritarians but rather it demands brave truth-telling."

~ Margaret Sullivan

#CNN #ChrisLicht #BothSidesism
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/08/cnn-chris-licht-fired-ratings-numbers

"What especially confused Chris Licht and the rest of CNN’s management was the difference between being politically partisan and standing up against authoritarian demagogues. They assumed that holding Trump accountable for what he did (and continues to do) was inconsistent with so-called “balanced journalism.”

Wrong. It is not partisan to stand up for decency and democracy. That’s where CNN’s audience wanted — and presumably still wants — CNN to be."

#CNN #ChrisLicht #centrism
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"CNN’s new management came along at a time of establishment confusion over whether the old political center would return after Trump. America’s business establishment — including Warner Bros. Discovery billionaire John Malone — hoped it would. But that proved a pipe dream. The division between authoritarianism and democracy is now too deep. If anyone had any doubts, CNN’s Trump town hall should have erased them."

~ Robert Reich

#CNN #ChrisLicht #centrism
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https://robertreich.substack.com/p/goodbye-cnns-chris-licht-but-whats

I dunno how this guy "succeeded" at his other posts, but this egomaniac can't be clean in the least.
There's no way this lame-brain, HR nightmare of an executive got this job on his personality and ethics.

#CNN #YouGotLicht #ChrisGotLicht #GetLichtChris #ChrisLicht

https://www.businessinsider.com/chris-lichts-tenure-cnn-ceo-layoffs-anchor-drama-bad-ratings-2023-6?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=business-sf

#ChrisLicht’s departure marks the failure of his mandate — delivered from his corporate overlords, including #WarnerBrosDiscovery CEO #DavidZaslav — to recalibrate the network’s political sensibility toward the center. To the extent that anyone ever understood what that meant for actual #CNN broadcasts, it’s now clear that it meant #sanitizing the screen in deference to the #Republican front-runner.

A disaster, in other words.

That morsel surfaced in a searing profile of #ChrisLicht that appeared last week in the Atlantic under the byline of Tim Alberta — a piece that aggregated a run of bad stories about #Licht & added a few new ones. On Wed morning, #CNN staffers learned that Licht was out….

There are many subplots to Licht’s abbreviated tour, but the #SexualAbuse chyron moment captures a critical one:

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2023/06/cnn-ratings-chris-licht-trump/674255/

A New York jury on May 9 found Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing #EJeanCarroll, an advice columnist who sued him years after the #assault she alleged. The next day, #CNN held its much-criticized #TownHall w/#Trump. In its tee-up coverage, a chyron that included the term “SEXUAL ABUSE” appeared on the screen. A lieutenant of CNN chief executive #ChrisLicht notified the control room: Scrub those words.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/06/07/chris-licht-cnn-centrist-politics/

#CNN boss #ChrisLicht & …top allies have been fired after weeks of turmoil & drama….

#Licht’s brief tenure as the network’s boss was marked by plummeting ratings, extensive job cuts, programming shifts that didn’t pan out, & high-profile firings of on-air personalities (& Trump’s Town Hall). All of this, it appeared, was part of an effort to reshape CNN into a “centrist” news org & appeal to a supposedly broader audience.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/embattled-cnn-boss-chris-licht-gets-the-boot

EBL: Chris Licht Fired At CNN 🤡💩🥔https://evilbloggerlady.blogspot.com/2023/06/chris-licht-fired-at-cnn.html

#ChrisLicht #BrianStelterIsAPotato 🥔 #YoureFired🥔

The Los Angeles Times does not mince words about Chris Licht's ouster!

#LosAngelesTimes #ChrisLicht #CNN #stupid #decisions #satire

https://www.indiewire.com/news/analysis/why-chris-licht-fired-from-cnn-1234872120/

#ChrisLicht #CNN #WarnerBrosDiscovery #news #media

"Licht has taken a bad situation and made it much worse. Whether out of genuine conviction or out of a desire to please the plutocrats who own Warner Bros. Discovery, Licht has mastered the art of deploying centrist rhetoric for reactionary ends."

~ Jeet Heer

#ChrisLicht #CNN #BothSidesism

https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/cnn-zucker-licht-trump/

THIS JUST IN: #CNN announces on-air that their CEO #ChrisLicht is out. Ratings have tanked because of the town hall debacle and low morale within the company.