Hopefully these layoffs won’t impact CNN’s ability to legitimize celebrity gossip or have talking heads recite partisan talking points.

Only good can come from this.

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No, the new owners want to turn CNN into Fox News 2.0 and pander to far-right viewers who eat up racist conspiracy bullshit.

That's such a foolish goal.

The old audience will leave in droves.

Their new intended audience won't abandon Fox News or OAN. They call CNN the Clinton News Network.

I think the person you replied to knows that and that's the good they prefer

Yeah, they honestly thought the best way to get past Trumpers demonizing the network for over 4 years... was to sell out to them.

CBS also hired a disgraced Trump admin member to head their programming. WGN eliminated original programming and became NewsNation (to also pander to the base as a mini-Fox News). All of them assumed that "red wave" was gonna happen and that the GQP were to take over, so they readied to pander to the base.

Annnnnd then it didn't happen. Now they've pissed off the old audience and won't be aquiring that new intended audience.

I haven’t watched CNN for a long time.. but the last few days I have seen a bit and I haven’t noticed the 6-8ppl talking head conversations where no-one gets anything across and they are actually letting guests talk on both sides.. I assume it’s because of the new ownership but it seems better.

it's just layoffs, lol, I don't think they're shutting it down.

Hopefully they lay off everyone and cnn disappears.

They really did gut hbo max’s offerings recently I’ve noticed. CNN… boo hoo, maybe they should have actually broadcast and gathered factual news stories for the last 6 years instead of following the trump train scraps around

Disney didn’t hurt fox talking heads so I don’t think they will. Those heads make money.

Edit: Disney did not get fox TV they got just movies fox TV was to be included but Peter was required by the FTC to no be. My fault. Now I know what it feels like to be a Fox News watcher. RIP.

CNN better hope Twitter doesn't close down since that is where 90% of their content come from.

Per Mediaite:

> Mediaite understands that today the layoffs mostly focus on paid contributors. It’s been known around the network that Licht is more interested in subject-specific experts less than broad generalists, which will be reflected in today’s cuts. Tomorrow, salaried employees will be told and some relatively visible names from behind the scenes are expected to hear bad news also.

FR … this is the MO I guess. I remember reading the method of how they do it several years ago when a guy on a car show i liked got replaced… it was basically because he’d had standards and had built the show along with a small production team of guys himself and discovery came in and just wanted to gut it, fire the production team guys, film everything as fast as possible on the lowest budget possible and sacrifice whatever they could get away with for bottom line. This tall Englishman was the only reason I watched the show it turns out… because him and his production people were the only ones on the show providing actual useful interesting information about how to restore different aspects for the diy perspective. He actually had a bit of morals and standards so he left with the crew. So they’re probably losing as much possible revenue as they think they’re saving it just doesn’t matter to them bc it’s a quick and dirty way to boost profit margins. Way to go. People will actually get tired of content lacking reality tv over time.

It's like CNN is as bad as Elon...

Problem with cnn and corporate news media in general is they keep allowing this fake debate at all. There aren’t two sides to everything, there are facts and lies, And when you give so much voice to “the other side” when that side is simply factually wrong it presupposes they actually have a right to be the bigoted liars they are. They do not. They give “the other side” way too much earned media just so they can create controversy and gain ratings. Because they refuse to actually pay to send reporters out in the world to do actual reporting on what’s happening. The BBC and public broadcasting is my only trusted news source anymore. The rest is just opinion not news

Disney didn't buy the Fox network. Just the film division and their shows. Murdoch still owns the network, the sports broadcasting and the shitrag news.

Disney didn't buy the fox news portion of 21th century fox. That is a seperate company called fox corporation.

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Edd China from Wheeler Dealers?

Doesn’t 90% of all entertainment “news” content come from Tweets these days? I feel like Fox and the others are the same. I don’t watch any of them though, so I could be wrong…

They'll just continue to contrive "news" off singular social media posts.

It’s how the system is designed. CEOs get bonsues based on Quarterly profits and cutting expenses is the fastest way to turn a quarter around

I never will understand some peoples obsession with CNN

Nope. Don Lemon won't be laid-off.

People like to hear the bullshit they believe repeated back to them. That's why CNN and Fox News have such dedicated watchers.

Cut em all and turn out the lights.....does anyone really watch the Chinese News Network anymore???????

Is warner bros/discovery owned by Republicans or something?

CNN staff will be voting Trump in 2024 to get those Trump Hater viewers back

They are starting to lose those AOL monthly subs form 20 years ago i bet

We should all read breitbart!!! /s

I like jake tapper, cooper, wolf and John king but you are right.

No lie their rating's dropped after that bafoon left office lol

Since CNN is taking a hard Right turn, they no longer need Fact Checkers or professional journalists, producers, editors....

That's exactly the problem. CNN, FOX etc are more focused on entertainment value vs. reporting the news.

PBS news hours ftw. Straight and simple, just tell me what's going on

Pretty sure a significant amount of their content comes from covering what their hosts said during the previous hour. “Just wait till you find out what Jake Tapper had to say about Anderson Coopers reaction to Wolf Blitzers reporting, it’s shocking and up next.”

uh. dude. they are just trying to be more middle of the road. you have to be a stalinist to think CNN is a hard right news network. they can't compete with msnbc for left wing eyeballs so they are trying to go a little more down the middle. you then act like its foxnews and want it cancelled.

rolls the eyes.

What the hell are you talking about

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As somebody who has lived in Atlanta for years, works in the industry, and have worked with so many great people who at one time worked at CNN but were laid off, there is a reason why I've never bothered to apply. This is nothing new.

Yeah. They are definitely entertainment based shows. I wish more people realized that and did not take them for a straight news channel.

Unlikely that she had any say in her departure. I don’t think they renewed her contract. She had a good run though — 10 years as an anchor and a few years as a correspondent before that.

Not sure what you mean about her leaving at the right time though.

Look into who is now running the network and his past. It's not as crazy of a statement as you think.

Not saying he's correct but you misunderstood. He's claiming they will be taking a hard right turn and you're responding to if they have taken a hard right turn. You'll want to ask him the specifics on why he believes that if you want to provide a good counterweight.

Laughable to suggest that CNN is taking a “hard right turn.” It’s aiming to present the news in as politically unbiased a way as possible.

That’s not hard right. That’s trying to be politically neutral. The aim is to be factual and not take a partisan slant.

So no obvious liberal slant like MSNBC and no obvious right-wing slant like Fox News. Shouldn’t that be what people want???

They were already right leaning.

But CNN doesn’t really have dedicated watchers like Fox News. Almost everyone someone talks about CNN it’s a conservative person complaint about the “liberal media”

Licht worked with Colbert, it just seems like the only thing that matters here is money and the money and/or will to make CNN better is not there. So the plan seems to be to make CNN even worse and cheaper and hope that they can position themselves between MSNBC and Fox News, when that's obviously crazy for multiple reasons. (People who presently believe CNN is controlled by Satanists for being mean to Trump are not going to come to their senses)

What major company doesn’t have periodic layoffs? Especially media companies? That’s no reason to never apply to work at one of them though….

John King, Steve King is a crazy Republican politician

Garbage journalism

Absolutely, you're correct that it's common. It's really a matter of what you're willing to risk given the facts as you see them. The risk is always there with any job, but it's just greater at some places than others. Layoffs at CNN are fairly common from what I've observed. I've preferred to choose places with a bit more stability and have been thankful to not have to worry about being laid off just weeks before Christmas.

Somehow, the only thing it hasn't destroyed is Battlebots. That show is a gem in a pile of shit, and I have no idea how it hasn't been either destroyed or cancelled because of it.

It was hilarious watching the CNN anchors' faces drop on election night as they slowly realized Democrats completely outperformed all expectations. They have been on the right of the spectrum for years but have gone far right since Biden took over. Hopefully the whole network collapses and an actual news network takes its place.

Trump was a huge boon for them, as trump continues to implode all of those that benefited from their anti trump positions will fall further. Find something new to jump on 24/7…

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Of all the things to get irritated about, losing CNN ain’t one of them lol. Now if only Fox News can be destroyed too

Today CNN had a piece about railroad strike, it was bit after bit asking if elected union leaders were willing to put Americas economy on the line by striking, asking the workers directly if they cared about the impact of the rail roads shutting down over sick days.

Why do I say this in relation to CNN and turning right? CNN isnt asking rail corp CEOS if they are willing to put Americas economy on the line because of a few sick days AFTER making record profits by reducing employees? If those CEOs are willing to keep profits high at the expense of both the workers and the American economy as a whole? Nope none of those questions, ever.

If CNN cared about the workers they wouldnt be supporting the corporations, and in my views the left is proworker, thats another discussion. MSM is strikeningly conservative in general as is.

Did we all forget how CNN started the year by launching a streaming service that didn’t even last two months? They uh… kinda deserve the cuts for that

There main problem is they cant figure out who to spin the stories for from day to day.

No I watched a lot of fox over thanksgiving at my grandparents and it was surprisingly adequate reporting all though just about every point made my eyes roll into the back of my head. And my grand parents are just like “yep sure enough, Biden is incompetent because he didn’t eat an ice cream cone right” I mean it is exactly the same as CNN under the trump administration,

Hasta la vista Acosta.

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CNN could save so much money if they just hired me to read their prepared talking points and celebrity gossip. I will work for the bargin price of 100K a year and deliver the same low ratings that Don Lemon and Jake Taper give them. Not only that they would save money on wardrobe because I could just wear off the rack from JC Penny or Burlington Coat Factory.

I hate everything about Warner/Discovery!

Wait, the writer assumes WBD actually has a plan?

Good.