{"id":1748292,"date":"2022-11-22T14:33:37","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T19:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1748292"},"modified":"2022-11-22T14:33:41","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T19:33:41","slug":"that-is-bulls-cnn-head-honcho-says-hes-not-interested-in-being-centrist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/that-is-bulls-cnn-head-honcho-says-hes-not-interested-in-being-centrist\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018That Is Bulls***\u2019: CNN Head Honcho Says He\u2019s Not Interested In Being \u2018Centrist\u2019"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fthat-is-bulls-cnn-head-honcho-says-hes-not-interested-in-being-centrist%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=1748292&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>New CNN CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/cnn-chief-chafes-over-gutfeld-balks-when-journalist-points-out-he-beat-colbert\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chris Licht<\/a> pushed back \u2014 hard \u2014 against claims that he wanted the network to be more \u201ccentrist\u201d under his leadership, calling the notion \u201cbulls***.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Licht explained his position during a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/a289eb16-6aa4-4b4e-831a-aa4663b7c9fd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent interview<\/a> with The Financial Times, saying that his goal was not to drive the network straight down the middle \u2014 rather, he said, he wanted to get away from the constant five-alarm-fire news alerts that ultimately had the effect of watering down what was real news.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the biggest misconceptions about my vision is that I want to be vanilla, that I want to be centrist. That is bulls***,\u201d Licht said, arguing that it wasn\u2019t about being Left or Right of center \u2014 it was about presenting news in a way that made people want to watch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have to be compelling. You have to have edge. In many cases you take a side. Sometimes you just point out uncomfortable questions. But either way you don\u2019t see it through a lens of left or right,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Licht\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/cnn-toobin-stelter-harwood\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">early moves<\/a> at the helm of the cable news giant led many to believe that he intended to weed out some of the more heavily partisan programming: he terminated senior media reporter Brian Stelter and canceled his Sunday morning show \u201cReliable Sources\u201d; he relegated longtime evening anchor Don Lemon to a morning show co-hosting gig; and he fired longtime White House reporter John Harwood.<\/p>\n<p>But Licht, who previously worked for late-night comedian Stephen Colbert, has appeared to struggle to find the right balance \u2014 which he says should include lighter content in addition to breaking news.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf everything is a crisis, if everything is 11, if everything is breaking news, then no one listens when there actually is a crisis,\u201d he explained. \u201cWhen you say, \u2018No, no \u2014 really \u2014 the house is on fire now.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But if the past is prologue, the shake-ups at CNN may be far from over. Licht announced on Monday that programming director Michael Bass, a longtime ally of previous CNN president Jeff Zucker, would be leaving at the end of the year. According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/business\/story\/2022-11-21\/cnns-top-programming-executive-will-leave-at-years-end\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> from The Los Angeles Times, this move was not entirely unexpected and might be followed by more high-profile exits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New CNN CEO Chris Licht pushed back \u2014 hard \u2014 against claims that he wanted the network to be more \u201ccentrist\u201d under his leadership, calling the notion \u201cbulls***.\u201d Licht explained his position during a recent interview with The Financial Times, saying that his goal was not to drive the network straight down the middle \u2014 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1748295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1748292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748292","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\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1748292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1748295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1748292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1748292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1748292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}