{"id":1829387,"date":"2023-01-30T18:49:15","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T23:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1829387"},"modified":"2023-01-30T18:51:02","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T23:51:02","slug":"i-cant-offend-our-core-audience-cnn-ceo-chris-licht-on-why-not-a-lot-of-changes-have-been-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/i-cant-offend-our-core-audience-cnn-ceo-chris-licht-on-why-not-a-lot-of-changes-have-been-made\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I Can\u2019t Offend Our Core Audience\u2019: CNN CEO Chris Licht On Why Not A Lot Of Changes Have Been Made"},"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\">40<\/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%2Fi-cant-offend-our-core-audience-cnn-ceo-chris-licht-on-why-not-a-lot-of-changes-have-been-made%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=1829387&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-->\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/cnn\">CNN<\/a> CEO Chris Licht claims in a new interview this week that one of the reasons that change has been slow to come to the left-wing network is because he can\u2019t upset the company\u2019s \u201ccore audience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Licht <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/business\/story\/2023-01-30\/chris-licht-wants-cnn-to-be-news-on-cable-not-cable-news?dg\">Telled<\/a> According to the Los Angeles Times, he has deleted his Twitter account due to being insecure \u201cvery focused\u201d on restoring trust in the brand and the company.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we are doing is fundamentally reformatting the network. And it\u2019ll take some time for that to get into a rhythm, and then it\u2019ll take time to market it. And so it will take some time to grow again,\u201d He said. \u201cThe people I work for understand that we didn\u2019t get here overnight and we\u2019re not going to get out of it overnight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Licht indicated that he will be meeting with \u201cculturally relevant individuals from the worlds of entertainment, sports and comedy who can bring fresh and unique perspectives to the news\u201d The network is looking to overhaul its prime-time lineup after firing Chris Cuomo, and moving Don Lemon to its morning lineup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m casting a wide net to help broaden the appeal of our prime time,\u201d He said. \u201cBut at the same time, I can\u2019t offend our core audience of news junkies. I would never do anything that would hurt the brand and reputation that we\u2019re working so hard to restore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Licht stated that official market research shows that people don&#8217;t trust the company&#8217;s brand.<\/p>\n<p>The 51-year old claimed that he had tried to reach out to Republicans to join the network, after years of Republicans believing otherwise. \u201cnot get a fair shake\u201d If they were to come on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe won\u2019t invite you on to score points on you,\u201d He said so. \u201cCome on and have an honest and open discussion about what your vision is for the future of this country, and be prepared to answer respectful, tough questions about that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI spoke to the same number of Democrats and Republicans when I went up there at every level of leadership and basically said that same message. Because it was also: \u2018Democrats, don\u2019t come on and expect that you\u2019re just going to get a rubber stamp,&#8217;\u201d He added. \u201cWe\u2019re going to ask questions that help illuminate whatever we\u2019re talking about for the audience. And it all feeds into the broader strategy of trying not to be cable news. We\u2019re trying to be news on cable. And the difference is cable news is, you would invite people on to have a food fight and that was entertaining. But I think that doesn\u2019t serve society as a whole.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN CEO Chris Licht claims in a new interview this week that one of the reasons that change has been slow to come to the left-wing network is because he can\u2019t upset the company\u2019s \u201ccore audience.\u201d Licht told The Los Angeles Times that he deleted his Twitter account because he is \u201cvery focused\u201d on trying &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":1829390,"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":[7156,10554,3680,3850,4270,9373,8404,10137,8417,17036],"class_list":["post-1829387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-i","tag-audience","tag-cant","tag-ceo","tag-chris","tag-cnn","tag-core","tag-licht","tag-lot","tag-offend"],"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\/1829387","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\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1829387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1829387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1829390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1829387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1829387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1829387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}