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CNN's on-air talent get the message
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Some context for Brianna Keilar's multi-day fixation on the U.S. Marines positioned behind Biden during his speech last week: It followed weeks of speculation that she will be the next victim of Chris Licht's CNN purge. She got the message.
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CNN’s on-air talent get the message
6:19 AM · Sep 7, 2022
Matthew Gertz
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Some context for Brianna Keilar's multi-day fixation on the U.S. Marines positioned behind Biden during his speech last week: It followed weeks of speculation that she will be the next victim of Chris Licht's CNN purge. She got the message.
mediamatters.org
CNN’s on-air talent get the message
6:19 AM · Sep 7, 2022
https://www.mediamatters.org/cnn/cnns-air-talent-get-message
When Chris Licht took over as CNN chairman earlier this year, the network’s staffers had difficulty discerning his vision for the network. Licht signaled broad shifts, including what The New York Times described as a move toward “dialing back partisanship on the air.” But while ominous signals abounded as to what precisely that meant for the network’s employees – John Malone, a board member of CNN’s new parent company, had suggested in 2021 that CNN should look to Fox News as a model – Licht provided few specifics. There was enough confusion among the network’s rank-and-file that CNN host Erin Burnett, moderating Licht’s first staff town hall in May, channeled her colleagues’ anxiety to ask, “Will there be avenues for us to understand your thinking?”
Licht has provided one such avenue over the past several weeks: He has spoken through the firings of on-air talent perceived as providing insufficient deference to the right. Reliable Sources host Brian Stelter, a harsh critic of Fox and former President Donald Trump’s treatment of the mainstream media, lost his job last month. Veteran White House correspondent John Harwood, who had denounced Trump’s attacks on democracy, was shown the door on Friday. In each case, media reporters stressed that the firings were part of what the Washington Post termed Licht’s “strategy shift,” with the chairman purging journalists that were perceived as critics of Trump and his allies “to present a new, more ideologically neutral CNN.”
The message Licht’s firings send to CNN journalists is crystal clear: Too much criticism of the right, which remains united behind Trump and champions the election denial that triggered the January 6 insurrection, may cost you your job. And to inoculate themselves against that critique, some at the network are seemingly going out of their way to channel right-wing attacks against President Joe Biden.
Take Brianna Keilar, co-anchor of CNN’s New Day morning show. After a series of reports that her job was on the line due to her past coverage of Trump and Fox, Keilar grabbed headlines for her multi-day fixation on the optics of Biden standing in front of two U.S. Marines while delivering his Thursday speech on his predecessor’s threat to democracy.
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It's one of a theme that is not actually new. CNN's "foxification" has been going on for a while.
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The leverage must be intense.
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seems like it won't die on DU.
CNN has not "gone fascist."
