ALWAYS THE LAST TO KNOW: CNN boss Chris Licht slams ‘stunning’ left-wing ‘vitriol’ aimed at him.
CNN boss Chris Licht slammed liberals for criticizing his move to make CNN less partisan, saying it only makes him more confident about his decisions.
“The uninformed vitriol, especially from the left, has been stunning,” Licht, who took over the cable network in May, told The New York Times. “Which proves my point: So much of what passes for news is name-calling, half-truths and desperation.”
Licht was tasked with bringing CNN back to its hard-news roots, to tamp down on anti-Trump, left-leaning punditry, and to cut costs.
He told the Times he thinks of people in the political center as “normal” — but insists appealing to “normal” people doesn’t mean the content should be boring.
“One of the biggest misconceptions about my vision is that I want to be vanilla, that I want to be centrist. That is bulls—,” Licht told the Financial Times in November. “You have to be compelling. You have to have edge.”
Given that it’s CNN, I’d love to know his definition of “centrist.”
UPDATE: So when does Licht actually begin to tone police his network? Jake Tapper Says ‘Kevin McCarthy and His Gang of Flying Monkeys’ Are Why Senate Republicans Support Giant Spending Bill.
