{"id":1632716,"date":"2022-09-04T17:34:30","date_gmt":"2022-09-04T21:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1632716"},"modified":"2022-09-04T17:34:54","modified_gmt":"2022-09-04T21:34:54","slug":"network-wide-purge-cnn-staffers-panic-as-woke-employees-heads-roll-under-new-company-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/network-wide-purge-cnn-staffers-panic-as-woke-employees-heads-roll-under-new-company-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Network-Wide Purge\u2019: CNN Staffers Panic As \u2018Woke\u2019 Employee\u2019s Heads Roll Under New Company Chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnetwork-wide-purge-cnn-staffers-panic-as-woke-employees-heads-roll-under-new-company-chief%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1632716&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Employees at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/cnn\">CNN<\/a> are reportedly panicking as Chris Licht, the company\u2019s new chairman and CEO, is continuing to cut some of the network\u2019s most hyper-partisan leftist \u201ctalent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Mail <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11176729\/CNN-staffers-terrified-Brian-Stelter-John-Harwood-fired.html\">reported<\/a> that staffers at the far-left network, which is trying to become more nonpartisan, \u201cfear a network-wide purge\u201d of \u201cwoke\u201d talent at the company.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople are freaked out,\u201d one CNN journalist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/media\/2022\/09\/02\/john-harwood-cnn-chris-licht-stelter-opinion\/\">said<\/a>. \u201cIt almost feels like there\u2019s a pattern. Is there a purge going on? They seem to be sending a message: \u2018Watch what you say. Watch what you do.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLongtime CNN personalities are disappearing, and the viewers don\u2019t know why,\u201d another CNN employee said. A producer for the network said it was an \u201cunsettling time from top to bottom at CNN\u201d and that no one \u201cis happy right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The panic comes after CNN\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/cnn-white-house-correspondent-john-harwood-out-at-network\">parted<\/a>\u00a0ways with hard-left White House Correspondent John Harwood this week following hyper-partisan remarks from Harwood, including a tweet in which Harwood claimed, \u201cBiden\u2019s assertion that Trump and extremist Republicans pose a threat to American democracy is, undeniably, true.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the 2016 presidential campaign, Harwood reached out to Hillary Clinton\u2019s campaign chairman, John Podesta, and <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/pundits-blog\/media\/304686-campaign-collusion-is-cnbcs-john-harwood-too-close-to-the-clinton\/\">asked<\/a> him, \u201cWhat should I ask Jeb?\u201d The Hill noted at the time that Jeb Bush, at the time the email was sent, was the leading Republican contender to take on Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>Harwood\u2019s departure comes weeks after former CNN \u201cReliable Sources\u201d host Brian Stelter recorded his last show and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-brian-stelter-out-at-cnn-after-network-cancels-his-show\" rel=\"noopener\">exited<\/a>\u00a0the network. Stelter\u2019s exit reportedly came at the behest of CNN chief Chris Licht, who took over the network in February after Jeff Zucker\u2019s exit. Licht has reportedly been driving CNN toward adopting a more nonpartisan stance in its news coverage.<\/p>\n<p>Licht\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2022\/06\/07\/cnn-evaluating-partisan-talent-chris-licht\">started<\/a>\u00a0to evaluate the hyper-partisan so-called \u201ctalent\u201d at the network shortly after he joined CNN as he\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2022\/02\/26\/cnn-chris-licht-liberal-partisanship\">aimed<\/a>\u00a0to dial down the extreme partisanship that has plagued the network in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to acknowledge that this is a time of significant change, and I know that many of you are unsettled,\u201d Licht\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/cnn-staff-chris-licht-era-1235201909\/\">said<\/a>, according to numerous people who attended Friday\u2019s editorial meeting call.\u00a0\u201cThere will be more changes, and you might not understand it or like it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Warner Bros. Discovery <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/warner-bros-discovery-is-shutting-down-cnn-after-new-streaming-service-struggled-to-attract-viewers-report\">canceled<\/a> CNN\u2019s new subscription streaming service, CNN+, earlier this year after it experienced significant struggles in attracting an audience.<\/p>\n<p><em>Tim Pearce contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>RELATED:<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/dan-rather-panics-after-cnn-continues-to-fire-far-left-employees-gets-slammed-online\">Dan Rather Panics After CNN Continues To Fire Far-Left Employees, Gets Slammed Online<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Employees at CNN are reportedly panicking as Chris Licht, the company\u2019s new chairman and CEO, is continuing to cut some of the network\u2019s most hyper-partisan leftist \u201ctalent.\u201d The Daily Mail reported that staffers at the far-left network, which is trying to become more nonpartisan, \u201cfear a network-wide purge\u201d of \u201cwoke\u201d talent at the company. \u201cPeople &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1632718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1632716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1632716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1632718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1632716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1632716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1632716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}