(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) CNN’s new chairman and CEO Chris Licht made a statement to far-left employees at the network, making it clear that he is planning to clean up the hyper-partisan network.
Licht has started the process of evaluating whatever talent is left at CNN, and is aiming to dail down the partisanship that the network has been inundated with over the last couple of years, The Daily Wire reported.
He has started the process by cancelling “Reliable Sources,” hosted by Brian Stelter, and firing both him and Jeffrey Toobin.
“I want to acknowledge that this is a time of significant change, and I know that many of you are unsettled,” Licht said in a meeting.
“There will be more changes, and you might not understand it or like it.”
A staff member at the network told Deadline, “No one is safe or secure right now.”
One of the largest investors in the network’s parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery, said he wanted CNN to “evolve back to the kind of journalism that it started with, and actually have journalists.”
In a newsletter, Stelter expressed the belief that Malone expressing the idea that he wants journalists to work at a news organization he invested heavily in may “steer [journalists] away from calling out indecency and injustice.”
A source inside the company said that the decision to dispose of Stelter “came from above,” and added that “if this isn’t coming from John Malone directly, it sure represents his thinking with lieutenants doing his bidding.”
The changes followed a different statement by Licht to CNN staff over the summer, stating that the company had gone through several changes in a very short amount of time after former CEO Jeff Zucker was fired.
“You heard me say in my first town hall that I am going to make decisions slower than some would like,” Licht said at the time. “I know this organization has been through tremendous change over the last four months, which is why I am approaching this process slowly and thoughtfully as we look at all parts of the operation”
“We will realign where it makes sense to best serve our people and the business.”
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