{"id":1944458,"date":"2023-06-05T14:19:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T18:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hes-over-ex-cnner-brian-stelter-reports-on-cnn-chief-who-axed-him\/"},"modified":"2023-06-05T14:21:35","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T18:21:35","slug":"hes-over-ex-cnner-brian-stelter-reports-on-cnn-chief-who-axed-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hes-over-ex-cnner-brian-stelter-reports-on-cnn-chief-who-axed-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Stelter, former CNN employee, reports on the CNN chief who fired him with the headline &#8220;He&#8217;s Over.&#8221;"},"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\">36<\/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%2Fhes-over-ex-cnner-brian-stelter-reports-on-cnn-chief-who-axed-him%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=1944458&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--><h2>Former CNN Personality Brian Stelter Reports on CNN CEO Chris Licht&#8217;s Future<\/h2>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;That anti-Licht sentiment is shared by many in the CNN rank and file, and has existed to some extent for months, but <em>The Atlantic<\/em> article cemented it. In the words of three employees: &#8216;He\u2019s over.&#8217; &#8216;He\u2019s done.&#8217; &#8216;There\u2019s no <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-ends-negotiations-with-nancy-pelosi-on-coronavirus-relief\/\" title=\"Donald Trump Ends Negotiations with Nancy Pelosi on Coronavirus Relief\">coming back<\/a> from that profile,'&#8221; Stelter reported in a Sunday <em>New York <\/em>magazine\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/2023\/06\/can-chris-licht-survive-at-cnn.html\">story<\/a> about CNN employees&#8217; frustrations with Licht.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Former CNN personality Brian Stelter has taken aim at his ex-boss, reporting on his former coworkers&#8217; harsh views of CNN CEO Chris Licht. Licht is the focus of a damning <em>Atlantic<\/em> feature story titled &#8220;Inside The Meltdown at CNN,&#8221; which ran Friday and has called into question the CEO&#8217;s future at the media company. It details inner turmoil and employees&#8217; lack of confidence in him.<\/p>\n<h3>Employees&#8217; Frustrations with Licht<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Stelter said it&#8217;s the first time he&#8217;s reported on his former employer since he was fired from CNN in August 2022.<\/li>\n<li>Right before the <em>Atlantic<\/em> piece dropped, CNN&#8217;s parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery, announced the hiring of a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/audit-michigan-may-have-paid-billions-in-fraudulent-jobless-claims-gretchen-whitmer-administration-hit-with-kickback-allegations\/\" title=\"Audit: Michigan May Have Paid Billions in 'Fraudulent' Jobless Claims; Gretchen Whitmer Administration Hit with 'Kickback' Allegations\">chief operating officer<\/a> at CNN, David Leavy.<\/li>\n<li>Anchors told Stelter that staffers immediately began reaching out to Leavy and complaining of a loss of confidence in Licht.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I feel like a quarterback without a coach,&#8221; an anchor told Stelter.<\/li>\n<li>Stelter said employees at the network didn&#8217;t feel close to Licht and that he was distant.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Licht kept most CNNers at a distance, or at least that\u2019s how they felt. Correspondents likened him to a ghost and bemoaned his lack of feedback,&#8221; Stelter wrote.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Licht vowed to turn CNN into a more trusted and less left-wing political source when he took the reins in May 2022, and he canned vocally anti-Trump hosts including Stelter and Don Lemon who he said were &#8220;off mission.&#8221; He said last week that he is only halfway through his &#8220;gut renovation&#8221; of the network.<\/p>\n<h3>CNN&#8217;s Ratings Hit Record-Lows<\/h3>\n<p>Ratings at CNN have hit record-lows in recent months. In March, CNN hit a three-decade low in viewership. Its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hes-over-ex-cnner-brian-stelter-reports-on-cnn-chief-who-axed-him\/\" title=\"Brian Stelter, former CNN employee, reports on the CNN chief who fired him with the headline \"He's Over.\"\">primetime show ratings fell<\/a> by 25 percent in May from the year before.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Defend SCOTUS Ads<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Beacon<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Stelter, a former CNN personality, criticized his ex-boss, CNN CEO Chris Licht, over a recent Atlantic feature story titled &#8220;Inside The Meltdown at CNN.&#8221; The article has raised concerns about the network&#8217;s leadership. Stelter reported on his former coworkers&#8217; negative opinions of Licht, who had fired him last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1613,"featured_media":1944459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[],"tags":[4710,5772,9373,4317,6363,5599,22964,3972,4564,15335],"class_list":["post-1944458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-brian","tag-chief","tag-cnn","tag-employee","tag-fired","tag-hes","tag-headline","tag-over","tag-reports","tag-stelter"],"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\/1944458","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\/1613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1944458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1944459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1944458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1944458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1944458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}