No, Right-Wing ‘Rhetoric’ Isn’t to Blame for the Media Credibility Crisis
CNN’s unintentional acts of public service deserve recognition.
Network anchor Abby Phillip, for example, alleged in total earnestness last week that the erosion of media credibility is driven largely by right-wing rhetoric, as opposed to anything members of the press have said or done.
Wednesday, April 23 Evening Cable News Ratings: CNN Falls Below 500,000 Viewers During Primetime
Fox News was the most-watched network on an off-night for cable news. FNC saw its primetime numbers dip below 3 million total viewers and into the low 300,000s in the Adult 25-54 demo. MSNBC finished second in primetime in both total viewers and the demo with 1.53 million viewers and 129,000 viewers, respectively. Meanwhile, CNN fell below 500,000 total viewers and under 100,000 A25-54 viewers during primetime.
Zachary Young, Who Won $5 Million in CNN Defamation Case, Sues Associated Press
AU.S. Navy veteran who was awarded $5 million in a defamation case against CNN filed a lawsuit against the Associated Press on Friday.
A Florida jury ruled in favor of Zachary Young in January. The veteran sued the network over a 2021 segment aired on The Lead with Jake Tapper. The story centered around allegations of profiteering in the aftermath of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, specifically focusing on organizations that charged high prices for evacuations.
EXCLUSIVE: Read Jim Acosta's Resignation Letter to CNN
It's official. Jim Acosta, the obnoxious TV journalist best known for fighting a young female staffer who tried to take away his microphone at the White House, has quit his job at CNN after refusing to accept a humiliating demotion to the graveyard shift from midnight to 2 a.m. He's really leaving.
CNN is announcing layoffs as part of a further shift to digital business
CNN announced a restructuring Thursday that includes some 200 layoffs, an accelerated pivot to digital operations and new TV roles for personalities like Wolf Blitzer, Jake Tapper and Audie Cornish.
It’s the boldest revamp yet in the 18-month tenure of CEO Mark Thompson, a former chief executive at The New York Times and BBC called upon by parent company Warner Bros. Discovery to revive the news outlet’s flagging fortunes.
CNN plans to lay off hundreds of employees, cut costs; NBC plots firings
CNN boss Mark Thompson reportedly plans to announce mass layoffs Thursday — just days after he warned top on-air talent including Jake Tapper and Anderson Cooper that they ought to avoid “pre-judging” President Trump.
The ratings-challenged cable news pioneer will lay off hundreds of employees as it refocuses the business around a global digital audience, CNBC reported Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter.
CNN to lay off hundreds of employees as post-inauguration transformation begins, sources say
Warner Bros. Discovery’s CNN plans to lay off hundreds of employees Thursday as it refocuses the business around a global digital audience, according to people familiar with the matter.
The layoffs come as CNN is rearranging its linear TV lineup and building out digital subscription products. The cuts will help CNN lower production costs and consolidate teams, said the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss nonpublic changes.
The Day of Reckoning at CNN Has Arrived
It’s the red wedding at CNN. The day of reckoning has arrived for the anti-Trump network as layoffs are planned to be carried out today. It’s not because CNN also lost a massive defamation suit last week, though that doesn’t help matters—it’s that no one watches this godforsaken propaganda outfit.
We ‘hate watch’ it because we’re paid to do it and keep tabs on what the opposition press is saying in all its idiocy. It’s wildly entertaining documenting the tantrums, but hundreds of people at this liberal media hub will be updating resumes soon (via CNBC):
CNN boss Mark Thompson told Jake Tapper, Anderson Cooper and 100 other journalists not to ‘express outrage’ during Trump inauguration: report
CNN boss Mark Thompson told more than 100 journalists and top on-air talent including Jake Tapper and Anderson Cooper that they ought to avoid “pre-judging” President-elect Donald Trump while cautioning them “against expressing any outrage of their own” during the inauguration, according to a report.