{"id":1639410,"date":"2022-09-12T15:35:17","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T19:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1639410"},"modified":"2022-09-12T15:36:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T19:36:00","slug":"heres-what-these-fired-cnn-hacks-are-up-to-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/heres-what-these-fired-cnn-hacks-are-up-to-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s What These Fired CNN Hacks Are Up to Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Fheres-what-these-fired-cnn-hacks-are-up-to-now%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=1639410&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--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/\">Media<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Brian Stelter lands new gig as Jeffrey Toobin and John Harwood test free agency<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/andrew-stiles\/\" title=\"Posts by Andrew Stiles\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Andrew Stiles<\/a> \u2022 September 12, 2022 3:30 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>CNN recently fired three partisan hacks in an effort to become a semi-respectable media network. Jeffrey Toobin, the chief legal analyst best known for masturbating in front of his colleagues on a Zoom call, <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/toobin-gets-off\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">got the axe<\/a> in early August. Brian Stelter, the chief media correspondent best known for &#8220;seriously&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/that-time-the-media-dubbed-michael-avenatti-savior-of-the-republic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">promoting<\/a> convicted felon Michael Avenatti as a contender for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020, hosted his <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/brian-stelter-greatest-hits\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">final show<\/a> days later. John Harwood, the network&#8217;s White House correspondent and enthusiastic Democratic Party apologist, announced his (unplanned) <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/another-partisan-hack-just-lost-his-job-at-cnn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">departure<\/a> earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>You probably couldn&#8217;t care less about what these partisan hacks have been up to since getting fired, but we&#8217;re going to tell you anyway. Generally speaking, the answer is &#8220;not much,&#8221; but at least one of them has already secured a new gig at an elite American institution.<\/p>\n<p>Stelter announced Monday that he was <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brianstelter\/status\/1569344938222968832\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">joining<\/a> the Harvard Kennedy School as the Walter Shorenstein Media and Democracy Fellow. It is a fitting post for the canceled hack, whose target audience at Harvard will be even more left-wing than his audience at CNN. Stelter&#8217;s new role will involve convening &#8220;a series of discussions about threats to democracy and the range of potential responses from the news media,&#8221; which is also fitting\u2014a partisan journalist explaining how partisan journalists can help solve a problem (widespread public distrust in the media and other U.S. institutions) they helped create.<\/p>\n<p>Toobin and Harwood, meanwhile, have yet to find work and are still coping with the loss of their lucrative network jobs. Toobin recently <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JeffreyToobin\/status\/1561705989484810240\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">appeared<\/a> as a legal analyst on a golf podcast and expressed his <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JeffreyToobin\/status\/1568985457622683649\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">support<\/a> for the New York Jets hours before the team was crushed 24-9 by the Baltimore Ravens. Harwood has been doing what he usually does\u2014tweeting like a #Resistance wine mom with mental health issues. &#8220;Frozen Hershey&#8217;s kisses are way way better than frozen M&#038;Ms,&#8221; he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnJHarwood\/status\/1569153211478556672\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a>\u00a0Sunday at 10:37 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Harwood used his last appearance on CNN to deliver a partisan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2022\/09\/where-is-cnn-headed-harwood-stelter-licht\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rant<\/a> in which he argued that journalists were morally obligated to support the Democratic Party. The fired hack&#8217;s parting message resonated with many CNN employees, who are reportedly concerned about the network&#8217;s efforts to boost ratings by prioritizing actual journalism over Democratic propaganda. Stelter, for example, has <a href=\"https:\/\/puck.news\/stelters-silence-of-the-lambs\/?_cio_id=f6c6060587d301f8e60a&amp;utm_campaign=The+Daily+Courant+-+LEADS+(9%2F1%2F22)&amp;utm_content=The+Daily+Courant+-+LEADS+(9%2F1%2F22)&amp;utm_medium=email_action&amp;utm_source=customer.io\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">referred<\/a> to himself in conversations with former colleagues\u00a0as a &#8220;sacrificial lamb&#8221; who was fired for loving democracy too much.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media Brian Stelter lands new gig as Jeffrey Toobin and John Harwood test free agency  Andrew Stiles \u2022 September 12, 2022 3:30 pm CNN recently fired<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":2315279,"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-1639410","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\/1639410","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\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1639410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1639410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1639410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1639410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}