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Brian Stelter Has ‘Weeks’ Left at CNN, Employees Already Complaining about New Pro-Trump Boss John Malone
https://slaynews.com ^ | June 15, 20224 | David Hawkins

Posted on 06/16/2022 5:28:18 AM PDT by Red Badger

CNN anchor Brian Stelter is set to be axed in a matter of “weeks if not days” as the network’s new owners push to rid the cable news outlet of its far-left propaganda reputation.

Jon Nicosia, President of News Cycle Media, has been the first to report on numerous stories about the dysfunction at CNN.

Nicosia had the inside scoop leading up to the collapse of the Chris Wallace-led streaming service CNN Plus.

Now Nicosia says Brian Stelter has “weeks if not days” left at the network.

The news of Stelter’s downfall comes as another report from Mediaite claims CNN employees are already complaining about changes made by new management under the company’s new pro-Trump owner John Malone.

One staffer reportedly complained that “we didn’t have this problem until John Malone was sitting on the board of this company.”

Nicosia reported:

SOURCE: “Stelter is ‘down to weeks if not days’ left at CNN. They go on ‘He is everything that reminds the new owners of the Zucker era they desperately want to get past.

They continue: ‘Management is confident Stelter is the one sharing the internal pushback to fellow media reporters while simultaneously stirring discontent within the ranks’

Other CNN employees were complaining about changes made by Chris Licht and the new boss – billionaire Trump donor Malone.

“It seems to indicate where things are headed,” a CNN source told Mediaite about changes made from on high.

“We didn’t have this problem until John Malone was sitting on the board of this company.”

“It’s worrisome that we’re being told how to talk about one of the worst things that ever happened to American democracy.”

From Mediaite:

New CNN president Chris Licht discouraged staff from using “the big lie” to refer to former President Donald Trump’s false claims about the 2020 election, Mediaite has learned.

On a Tuesday conference call with management and show executive producers, Licht was asked for his thoughts on “the big lie,” and said he preferred that staff avoid the term.

He made clear this was a preference, not a mandate, but staffers have taken it as a clear directive from the new boss.

He encouraged producers to instead use the terms “Trump election lie” or “election lies” in banners and graphics.

According to a source, Licht argued that using “the big lie” makes the mistake of adopting branding used by the Democratic Party, thereby weakening the objectivity of the network.


TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: brianstelter; clintonnonnews; cnn; hunterbiden; jeffreytoobin; johnmalone; reliablesources; stelter
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To: Sans-Culotte

The liberals are raging on Lemon for voicing a question about Biden maybe being too old (read that as addle-brained). It was trending on twitter.

Just saying, a successful business model may be to go more left, and be a better mouthpiece for the communists who run our federal government.


21 posted on 06/16/2022 5:47:56 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: bigdaddy45
Unless he goes tranny.

Don't underestimate the power of pandering to perversity diversity. He just might.

22 posted on 06/16/2022 5:49:55 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: Red Badger
These television actors grew up in a day when the networks could sell the lie that being on television was an honor bestowed upon someone who made the cut.

It's been quite some time that people again look down at television actors the way they looked at stage actors prior to first decades of the 1900s.

23 posted on 06/16/2022 5:52:23 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: Red Badger

Good work. Now do You Reid without further delay!


24 posted on 06/16/2022 5:58:45 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: Red Badger
“It’s worrisome that we’re being told how to talk about one of the worst things that ever happened to American democracy.”

Pathetic.

25 posted on 06/16/2022 6:01:11 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: suthener

Precisely.


26 posted on 06/16/2022 6:03:08 AM PDT by TTFlyer (Lenin: that by the infliction of terror, a well-organized minority can conquer a nation.)
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To: Sirius Lee
I doubt he could be a middle manager at McDonald's
27 posted on 06/16/2022 6:04:29 AM PDT by bestrongbpositive
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To: Red Badger

I hope he’s learning to code.


28 posted on 06/16/2022 6:06:01 AM PDT by nonliberal (Z.)
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To: Red Badger

I can’t stop weeping. Someone hold me


29 posted on 06/16/2022 6:06:40 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: Red Badger

Been hearing about this for months and the lying skunks are still there


30 posted on 06/16/2022 6:07:26 AM PDT by ballplayer
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To: nonliberal
I hope he’s learning to code.

Yep, he can forget about a future in the oil and gas industry. Maybe he could do solar panel installs.

31 posted on 06/16/2022 6:08:52 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Red Badger
One staffer reportedly complained that “we didn’t have this problem until John Malone was sitting on the board of this company.”

They weren't making any money either.

32 posted on 06/16/2022 6:11:55 AM PDT by Brookhaven (Ted Cruz said Jan. 6 was terrorism)
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To: ballplayer

Contracts are expiring soon................


33 posted on 06/16/2022 6:15:57 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Unfortunately, CNN cannot be revived no matter if they do fire all the insane Leftists and try to tack back toward the center. Their brand is so destroyed that nobody will ever trust them again.


34 posted on 06/16/2022 6:17:36 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: bestrongbpositive
I doubt he could be a middle manager at McDonald's

And for the very same reasons he couldn't be trusted sweep floors at a donut shop.


35 posted on 06/16/2022 6:17:40 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: AppyPappy

😂😂🤣🤣😁.....................


36 posted on 06/16/2022 6:18:17 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: 1Old Pro

Hell.....have a network on the Right. Most people on the Right are very dissatisfied with Fox. A lot of us stopped watching everything on Fox except for Tucker Carlson. OANN and Newsmax are quite small. The competition for talent and for audience on the Right is minimal and the audience is at least half the country.

Instead of doing the obvious, you have one ideologue after another in charge of the other networks so they all try to divide up the Leftist audience. Is it any wonder they are dying?

Start a new network. Openly declare the 2020 election to be corrupt and stolen. Openly say sex is determined by your chromosomes and how you feel is irrelevant. Openly question the Fauci juice. Bring up and talk about the pernicious influence of George Soros. You’d have a very large audience right from the start.


37 posted on 06/16/2022 6:21:37 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: Rastus

I’m not one to just believe the election was stolen from Trump. I’m naturally skeptical. But, 2000 Mules was pretty damn convincing to me. Sure, it didnt offer ‘court room’ proof, but it certainly made a good case for an honest thinker.

2000 Mules was the kind of reporting ‘60 Minutes’ would have done 30-40 years ago… before they started working for the DNC.

As for CNN, they are in the tank for the Dems and are not a news station. Maybe they will be one day.


38 posted on 06/16/2022 6:22:21 AM PDT by Mustangman
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To: Red Badger

Let’s see what happens...


39 posted on 06/16/2022 6:36:38 AM PDT by rrrod (6)
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To: Red Badger

I think the new boss is being way too incremental. He should be looking to seize market share by dramatically sacking the hacks. Do some “primer time specials.” How about “Russiagate coverage: What we got right; what we got wrong” or “Inside Hunter’s Laptop.” Insist think they can swipe much from MSNBC. If they want to go big they need to go after Fox. That’s where the viewers are


40 posted on 06/16/2022 6:37:41 AM PDT by j.havenfarm (21 years on Free Republic, 12/10/21! More than 5000 replies and still not shutting up!)
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