Ratings-challenged CNN is operating under new leadership with a new goal to move away from the left-wing bias, and a media watchdog that documents the cable network’s left-wing hysteria says its liberal hosts are on notice.
Axios is reporting the new head of CNN, Chris Licht, wants to push the newsroom toward fact-driven coverage rather than left-wing discussions. In light of that, Licht is evaluating the on-air hosts who routinely spout those left-wing talking points that defend and praise Democrats and trash Republicans.
Responding to CNN’s new direction, Curtis Houck of the Media Research Center says the new CNN boss is attempting to return the once-respected cable news network to its glory days under Ted Turner. The way to do that, he says, is to return to the political center.
“Yes, they’ve always had liberals on,” Houck says, “but they want to be able to bring conservatives on, have conservative guests on by themselves, or allow conservative guests to speak.”
Fox News is hands down the leading cable news outlet, which is an understatement considering the small audiences that tune in to CNN and MSNBC. CNN is now lagging far behind MSNBC in primetime audience, The New York Post points out. In May, Fox was watched by 2.27 million during those crucial evening hours while MSNBC was watched by 1.02 million. CNN failed to hit one million viewers: 660,000 were watching, the Post said.
The runaway influence of Fox News has made it a frequent target of the unhappy, message-controlling Left, which attacks its right-wing hosts and mocks its audience instead of duplicating the new network’s famous “fair and balanced” approach to news.
According to the Axios story, CNN show host Brian Stelter (pictured at top) is being watched closely by his new CNN boss. That is because Stelter, the supposed media critic, is seemingly obsessed with Fox News but ignores left-wing bias, and his bias reflects poorly on the network.
Houck says the new direction at CNN might be a difficult task for the Trump-hating, Democrat-loving hosts but, he says, there is a big paycheck at stake.
“When it depends on your livelihood,” Houck predicts, “I think a lot of people are going to try and make it work.”
“Axios is reporting the new head of CNN, Chris Licht, wants to push the newsroom toward fact-driven coverage rather than left-wing discussions.”
Can this possibly be real??
I doubt it.. More likely fake news, designed to bring BACK viewers.
Even if it is true, the real question is… is it too late? I think it is, they are going to continue to die a way too slow death.
I doubt any of the gay ones will get off their knees when they know they are Licht.
What does Licht mean in this context? I thought it meant light.
bebrown82: I read it two ways:
Perhaps the higher ups at CNN have seen the light. As well as Licht sounds like a homonym for licked.
Just my take, but I can be simplistic sometimes.
I couldn’t ever listen to one word out of Stelter’s crooked mouth!!!
Oh the humanity! 😉
Too little too late cause by now you are dead in the eyes of many, many human beings.
Too late? Perhaps. And it wouldn’t bother me at all if CNN were to take a dirt nap because of the ratings.
But I like to feel that we Conservatives really are the Party of good conscience, and tolerance and forgiveness.
And there is not greater joy to people of good conscience than when someone who was lost now becomes found, was blind and now can see.
But I wax poetically.
Of course they’ve been talking about this for months, and we haven’t seen any serious attempt to follow through. So…
CAN they be forgiven for the ills they have caused though? SHOULD they be?
So the propaganda wing of the Dems is admitting it’s the propaganda wing of the Dems ??? Interesting.
Isn’t it? If the Country survives the next few months, and I always try to be optimistic, it just might start to get very interesting for Our Side.
That of course assumes, the left doesn’t do the same STEAL on this mid term, as they did in 2020..
Sorry CNN. Too late!!!!
Again, you’re probably right, and if they fail completely, they only themselves to blame.
But wouldn’t it be interesting if their proposed shift to the center made enough difference that they shifted to a more center Right?
I give it a one in ten chance, at best. But it would be very interesting.
The day Ted Turner married slutty Jane Fonda was the day it became too late for CNN to change to a REAL news network.
That’s right! I forgot about that.
Having that anti-American Bewitch at his ear full time certainly makes the slow but steady fall of CNN a little more understandable. And at a certain point, when it reached critical velocity in its decent, it became inevitable that it would devolve into the Democrat butt-kissing extension that it is today.
And then Fox News popped up out of nowhere…
Thanks for the refresher, Wilddog.
I haven’t watched CNN in at least 10 years. I will never watch CNN again, ever! The only exception is if they brought on Jesus.
I still wouldn’t watch it.
A little trivia for you.
In 1997 in a little town in Pa. A gunman took a classroom hostage. CNN went to cover it. When there was no shooting or no one got shot they left before it was over. My son was lucky he hadn’t gone to class that day but watched from the residence basement. The gunman put bullseyes on the kids who went to the bathroom and threatened them.
I learned early not to trust CNN, they just got worse each year.