{"id":1781130,"date":"2022-12-20T06:05:08","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T11:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1781130"},"modified":"2022-12-20T09:03:24","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T14:03:24","slug":"cnn-chief-complains-of-vitriol-from-the-left-as-he-tries-to-make-network-slightly-less-unwatchable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-chief-complains-of-vitriol-from-the-left-as-he-tries-to-make-network-slightly-less-unwatchable\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN Chief Complains of Vitriol From the Left As He Tries to Make Network Slightly Less Unwatchable"},"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\">34<\/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%2Fcnn-chief-complains-of-vitriol-from-the-left-as-he-tries-to-make-network-slightly-less-unwatchable%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=1781130&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/article_Screenshot_2022-12-19_at_21.49.36.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"advertisment pb-5 text-center\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col\">\n<div class=\"advertisment pb-5 text-center\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The CEO of CNN, Chris Licht, revealed he has been the target of \u201cuninformed vitriol\u201d from the political left over his efforts\u00a0to change the network\u2019s editorial direction back to the political center.<\/p>\n<p>Licht, who took over from Jeff Zucker earlier this year, said in an interview with <em>The New York Times\u00a0<\/em>that he was surprised by the strength of the backlash to his reforms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe uninformed vitriol, especially from the left, has been stunning,\u201d Licht told\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/12\/18\/business\/media\/chris-licht-cnn.html\">the <em>Times<\/em><\/a>. \u201cWhich proves my point: so much of what passes for news is name-calling, half-truths and desperation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since taking over in February this year, Licht has gone about enforcing a wide range\u00a0of staffing and programmatic changes including\u00a0shaking up the network\u2019s morning lineup by removing the openly left-wing host Don Lemon out of his prime-time slot and into CNN <em>This Morning<\/em> with Kaitlyn Collins and Poppy Harlow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey obviously like each other,\u201d Licht said of the new show. \u201cThe chemistry is great. I love the collaboration. Every day, it evolves. It\u2019s not like me giving orders. It\u2019s so much fun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other CNN anchors, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2022\/08\/brian-stelter-leaves-cnn-1235095457\/\">including<\/a>\u00a0<em>Reliable Sources\u00a0<\/em>host Brian Stelter, have been pushed out of the network entirely as part of Licht&#8217;s restructuring efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Licht explained that he wanted CNN to offer \u201crational conversation about polarizing issues&#8221; and for viewers to \u201ctake what they\u2019ve heard to the dinner table and have a discussion.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside>\n<p><span>\u201cThat\u2019s a dream of mine,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The network is said to be struggling under the pressure of a flatlining economy and a fall in digital advertising, forcing him to lay off employees and find other ways of cutting costs. This included <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/04\/21\/cnn-is-shutting-down-effective-april-30-sources-say.html\">closing<\/a> the company&#8217;s paid-for\u00a0streaming service CNN+ just weeks after its ambitious launch.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want CNN to be essential to society. If you\u2019re essential then the revenue will follow,&#8221; he explained. \u201cMaybe it won\u2019t work. But I\u2019d rather try to win this way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/aside>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CEO of CNN, Chris Licht, revealed he has been the target of \u201cuninformed vitriol\u201d from the political left over his efforts\u00a0to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1781133,"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":[547],"tags":[5458,5772,9373,6619,3691,5051,3819,10525,10136],"class_list":["post-1781130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-bongino","tag-chief","tag-cnn","tag-complains","tag-left","tag-network","tag-report","tag-unwatchable","tag-vitriol"],"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\/1781130","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=1781130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1781133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1781130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1781130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1781130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}