Inside the Meltdown at CNN
Posted on AllSides June 2nd, 2023
From The Left
Mark Peterson / Redux for The Atlantic
ANALYSIS
CEO Chris Licht felt he was on a mission to restore the network’s reputation for serious journalism. How did it all go wrong?
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“How are we gonna cover Trump? That’s not something I stay up at night thinking about,” Chris Licht told me. “It’s very simple.”
It was the fall of 2022. This was the first of many on-the-record interviews that Licht...
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