{"id":68805,"date":"2023-06-06T03:01:36","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T07:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/mission-impossible-why-media-are-pummeling-cnns-chris-licht-68805"},"modified":"2023-06-06T03:01:36","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T07:01:36","slug":"mission-impossible-why-media-are-pummeling-cnns-chris-licht","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/mission-impossible-why-media-are-pummeling-cnns-chris-licht-68805","title":{"rendered":"Mission Impossible: Why media are pummeling CNN\u2019s Chris Licht"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The press is having a fine old time kicking around CNN chairman Chris Licht<\/a>. I\u2019m a bit more sympathetic, since I think he\u2019s basically taking on Mission Impossible.<\/p>\n

But there\u2019s a sense of glee and gloating about Licht that I don\u2019t fully understand. His goal, when he took the job a year ago, was to restore the network\u2019s shredded reputation and return to down-the-middle journalism. He\u2019s made plenty of mistakes, but steering that ocean liner in a different direction is a gargantuan task.<\/p>\n

CNN long had the problem, including the years when I worked there, that people tuned in when there was a war or impeachment or natural disaster, but the numbers dropped when things were calm.<\/p>\n

Plenty of pundits are dunking on Licht in the wake of a deep-dive Atlantic piece<\/a> that casts him as a man whose job is in jeopardy. That seems overstated, given that he just needs the approval of the man who hired him, David Zaslav, the head of Warner Brothers Discovery, which bought CNN\u2019s parent company. Zaslav\u2019s hiring of a loyalist as chief operating officer last week has fueled the rumors that Licht is on shaky ground, though every corporation needs a COO.<\/p>\n

WHY THE MEDIA HAVE TURNED ON RON DESANTIS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Licht granted unusual access to author Tim Alberta because he envisioned a triumphal piece a year later. Instead, with ratings and profits way down, “Licht had lost the confidence of his own newsroom \u2026 Every move he made, big programming decisions and small tactical maneuvers alike, seemed to backfire.”<\/p>\n

Chief among these, for the guy who helped create “Morning Joe,” was moving anti-Trump<\/a>, anti-Republican host Don Lemon from prime time to the new morning show \u2013 only to have to fire him for being excessively opinionated and consistently clashing with his female co-hosts.<\/p>\n

A smaller example: Abandoning the newsroom-level office of his predecessor, Jeff Zucker, and moving up to the 22nd floor \u2013 where he\u2019s an unseen presence for most CNN staffers.<\/p>\n

Perhaps his most frustrated complaint about critics who lean left<\/a> is that pushing for more Republican guests “doesn\u2019t make me a fascist right-winger who\u2019s trying to steal Fox viewers.”<\/p>\n

The chairman\u2019s constant criticism of the Zucker era \u2013 when CNN\u2019s ratings were generated by slamming Trump and being MSNBC Lite \u2013 was not appreciated by anchors and other people hired by Zucker who think he shouldn\u2019t have been fired.<\/p>\n

“Licht told friends he was convinced that Zucker \u2013 whose legacy he was undermining daily with rhetorical recriminations about past damage to CNN\u2019s brand \u2013 was retaliating by pushing hit pieces on him.”<\/p>\n

Zucker is increasingly criticizing CNN\u2019s performance since his ouster, and his spokeswoman doesn\u2019t deny it.\u00a0“It is wholly unsurprising that Jeff Zucker, the architect of CNN\u2019s unprecedented success, would have deep misgivings about the direction the network has taken since he left,” Risa Heller told the New York Times.\u00a0<\/p>\n

(Zucker has also told people that CNN used his failure to disclose his relationship with his top deputy, Allison Gollust, as a pretext to dump him.\u00a0“I gave them a gun, and they shot me with it,” he\u2019s quoted as saying.)<\/p>\n

Perhaps the low point of Licht\u2019s tenure was the town hall with Donald Trump, who steamrolled moderator Kaitlan Collins despite her best efforts. Licht hoped the event would show that they could be fair to the Republican front-runner<\/a> while holding him accountable.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Instead, there was a mini-revolt within the network: “Republicans were angry at CNN. Democrats were angry at CNN. Journalists were angry at CNN. The only one who wasn\u2019t angry, it seemed, was Trump.”<\/p>\n

HOUSE HOLDS ITS NOSE AND APPROVES BIDEN-MCCARTHY DEBT DEAL<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Only Zaslav knows his level of confidence in Licht, and Alberta turned down his offers to speak on background or with quote approval, saying he had to be on the record.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been a rocky year, including 300 layoffs that Licht had to announce, and it\u2019s hard to regain the confidence of the troops once you\u2019ve lost it, but most bosses at media conglomerates<\/a> aren\u2019t loved. I still don\u2019t quite grasp the Licht-must-go crowd, but they have a lot of friends in the press.<\/p>\n

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Licht told the Atlantic: “I would say that for anyone who does want me to fail \u2013 what are you going for? Who would you want in this seat? You want a journalist? You want someone who has a direct line to the corporation and can make a phone call and go, \u2018Hey, what the f***?\u2019 Do you want someone who\u2019s done the job? Who\u2019s done a lot of the jobs? Who understands exactly what it takes to do what I\u2019m asking?”<\/p>\n

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That\u2019s really the end-game question. Licht, for all his stumbles, is fighting for a return to fair journalism. If he gets shot, why would his successor, even if more charming, be a major improvement?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/mission-impossible-why-media-pummeling-cnns-chris-licht <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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