Firing Chris Licht won’t fix CNN
Posted on AllSides June 7th, 2023
From The Left
Technically, the news is that CNN CEO Chris Licht was pushed out this morning. But the only newsy part of that statement is that it happened this morning: Licht, whose tenure at the cable news giant barely lasted a year, has been a dead man walking for the last week. The real question is whether Licht’s former boss, Warner Brothers Discovery CEO David Zaslav, has learned anything over the course of the debacle. It’s not clear that he has. The very fast recap: Zaslav took over CNN and the rest...