CNN boss proposes to banish Jim Acosta to midnight hour

[Bob Jersey]

A spokeser for Mark Thompson told Status.news (new home of ex-"Reliable Sources" anchor Oliver Darcy), monitored by Daily Beast, that the move was an upshot of "a massive shakeup that involved moving Wolf Blitzer to mornings"... Thompson tried to assure Acosta that the move was more about helping Blitzer than harming him... tho he's open to the idea, if it keeps him from having to directly battle Fearless Leader...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/cnn-plots-to-bury-the-anchor-trump-hates-most/?via=twitter_page&utm_medium=socialflow&utm_campaign=owned_social&utm_source=twitter_owned_tdb (link, hopefully doesn't trigger any paywalls?)

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[Bob Jersey]

Last week he turned in his resignation... and, of course, got smoked on the truthybox...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2025/01/28/jim-acosta-cnn-leaving-quits-trump/77995771007/ (link)

leading to online rumours that he would join an NBCU-owned network, maybe replacing "Morning Joe"...

https://www.tvinsider.com/1173016/morning-joe-critics-want-jim-acosta-to-take-over-after-rumored-cnn-exit/ (link)

Scarborough, for his part, mused that his program could go back to being not strictly politics...

https://www.tvinsider.com/1173293/joe-scarborough-msnbc-changes-morning-joe/ (link)

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Moi, Jan 17th: