Anderson critical of Chris Licht
Steve Rhodes
Top CNN Anchors Criticize CEO Chris Licht’s Leadership
Jake Tapper, Erin Burnett and Anderson Cooper are among personalities voicing concerns about embattled chief executive
Some of CNN’s highest-profile hosts are expressing concerns to management about Chris Licht’s ability to keep leading the network, people close to the situation said, after a series of blunders by the embattled chief executive in recent months.
Jake Tapper, Erin Burnett and Anderson Cooper are among the CNN personalities who have voiced their concerns about Licht’s leadership, some explaining their views during conversations with incoming CNN Chief Operating Officer David Leavy..
The unrest inside CNN about Licht’s leadership reached a boiling point after the Atlantic last week published an unflattering profile of him, in which he was critical of the news network and made disparaging remarks about the leadership of his predecessor Jeff Zucker, who was widely respected inside the organization.
Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav—who has previously voiced support for Licht—is also losing patience with the number of self-inflicted wounds and missteps, a person close to Zaslav said.
CNN declined to comment...
The anger inside CNN isn’t exclusively aimed at Licht. There is also concern about what some staffers and talent say is the high level of involvement by Zaslav, who has been much more hands-on than previous owners of CNN, some current and former network employees said.
Zaslav has been outspoken about CNN’s editorial mission. During an investor conference that followed the Trump town hall, he said: “We need to show both sides of every issue.” In April 2022, days after he took the helm at Warner Bros. Discovery, Zaslav said he wanted CNN to distinguish itself from “advocacy networks.”
Current and former CNN hosts and executives said in previous regimes, accountability to the parent company was limited primarily to budgets and compliance, with the network’s own editorial standards and practices. There may be discussions about programming strategies, but rarely did that play out in public as it does now, they said..
Steve Rhodes - San Francisco
danny burstein
[quoteth, snippeth]
> concern about what some staffers and talent say is the high level of
> involvement by Zaslav, who has been much more hands-on than previous owners
> of CNN, some current and former network employees said.
I guess these new[s] folk never heard
of Jane Fonda's former husband...
(Speaking of which, anyone see any
recent updates on Ted Turner's health?)
Debbie Speer
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