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CNN lays off more than 40 journalists
ft.com ^ | 1/23/2014 | Matthew Garrahan

Posted on 01/23/2014 8:55:43 AM PST by rktman

CNN has laid off more than 40 senior journalists in its newsgathering operation – including a pregnant producer who was two weeks away from giving birth to twins – as part of a reorganisation of the business under Jeff Zucker.

The cutting of production and editorial staff at the Time Warner-owned group comes as Mr Zucker tries to re-establish CNN as the dominant force in 24 hour cable news, a crown it lost several years ago to Fox News Channel.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Music/Entertainment; Society
KEYWORDS: cnn; democrats; layoffs; liberals; lyingliberalliars
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First off...."journalists"? Really? At cnn? Not bloody likely. Second, thanks jeff. Third. At least they'll have no problem signing up for obiecare. Fourth. jeff wants to re-establish cnn as the "dominant" force in cable news? LOLOLOLOLOL! Good luck with that one jeff. I wonder if the unemployment numbers will "necessarily skyrocket" because of these massive lay-offs.
1 posted on 01/23/2014 8:55:43 AM PST by rktman
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why do they need journalists? all they need is a fax machine from the white house


2 posted on 01/23/2014 8:56:54 AM PST by Mr. K (If you like your constitution, you can keep it...Period.)
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40 more communists looking for free stuff.

‘Eff them all.


3 posted on 01/23/2014 8:57:05 AM PST by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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What is CNN?


4 posted on 01/23/2014 8:57:18 AM PST by frithguild (The warmth and goodness of Gaia is a nuclear reactor in the Earth's core that burns Thorium)
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I didn’t know they had that many. Next come the readers.


5 posted on 01/23/2014 8:58:29 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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Fax Machine?? I thought they were already reading directly from the President’s teleprompter.


6 posted on 01/23/2014 8:59:14 AM PST by eyeamok
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To: rktman

Look for the pregnant woman to become Super Victim #1. Journalists everywhere else fearing their own lay-off will start trumpeting her story from the rooftops.


7 posted on 01/23/2014 8:59:18 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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“as Mr Zucker tries to re-establish CNN as the dominant force in 24 hour cable news”

Never happen. To do that they’de have to tell the truth. cnn’s connections to hitlery will never allow that.


8 posted on 01/23/2014 8:59:46 AM PST by V_TWIN
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“CNN has laid off more than 40 senior journalists”

Nobody who works at CNN is a journalist. They are paid liars who just repeat whatever party line they are told to repeat.

Maybe now they can find honest work doing something useful and constructive.


9 posted on 01/23/2014 9:00:04 AM PST by detective
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CNN had 40 journalists?

Where were they employed, and what have they been doing the past 30 years?


10 posted on 01/23/2014 9:00:08 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: rktman

Nonsense. They have not employed a journalist for decades.


11 posted on 01/23/2014 9:00:19 AM PST by crusher (Political Correctness: Stalinism Without the Charm)
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“We have had a really good year. And we have so much more to do. That is what excites me the most … I can’t wait to see what 2014 brings us.”

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/12/26/CNN-Chief-Zucker-Insists-CNN-Had-a-Really-Good-Year


12 posted on 01/23/2014 9:01:17 AM PST by maggief
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To: rktman

CNN had journalists?


13 posted on 01/23/2014 9:01:27 AM PST by DannyTN (A>)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Look for the pregnant woman to become Super Victim #1. Journalists everywhere else fearing their own lay-off will start trumpeting her story from the rooftops.
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Unborn babies are valued to Leftists, ONLY when they can be used to further their cause.


14 posted on 01/23/2014 9:01:28 AM PST by Artcore
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They had journalists on staff? What a waste. Fiction writers are so much better. And why pay journalists when they have federally paid writers sending them “news” right from the White House and in Congressional offices and the Pentagon???


15 posted on 01/23/2014 9:02:10 AM PST by petitfour
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To: rktman; GeronL; Revolting cat!

How many journalists did they have to hire just so they could fire forty?


16 posted on 01/23/2014 9:05:04 AM PST by a fool in paradise ("Health care is too important to be left to the government.")
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“Journalists everywhere else fearing their own lay-off will start trumpeting her story from the rooftops.”

I’m thinking cnn wont be talking about it too much. HA!


17 posted on 01/23/2014 9:05:14 AM PST by V_TWIN
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LOL!
Well, first you gotta hire (Real :) journalists,
not DNC propagandists.

18 posted on 01/23/2014 9:05:33 AM PST by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi)
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Folks beat me to it, but just to emphasize...CNN even has 40 “journalists”?

Bwahahahahahahah!

Next thing you’ll be telling me is that MSNBC even has one journalist.


19 posted on 01/23/2014 9:07:03 AM PST by Da Coyote
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The only reason they have any semblance of viewership is due to the dam airports tuned in 24/7 to the crap station.


20 posted on 01/23/2014 9:08:45 AM PST by SgtHooper (If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.)
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