Posted on 05/06/2019 8:14:23 PM PDT by RightGeek
CNN is planning to cut up to 300 jobs, "many being older employees with years at the network," according to a report on Monday.
According to FTVLive, a website that monitors the television industry, "Word is that just under 200 people will be pink slipped and just over 100 will be offered a buyout." Staffers are reportedly calling the cuts a "massive brain drain" because so many veteran employees are being given pink slips.
The website obtained an email that Tony Maddox, the executive vice president and managing director of CNN International, shared with staff announcing his departure. "After 21 years I am leaving CNN," Maddox wrote on Monday. "It has been the honor of my life to work for, and then lead CNN International. What a privilege to make a living doing such important work with truly outstanding people."
"I always feel enormous pride when I say I am with CNN," he continued. "This really is a remarkable company. Working for it is real life, amplified. Everything is more intense, vivid, and in the end, so rewarding."
It's also more fantastical, some would say.
Aidan McLaughlin, an editor for Mediaite, tweeted that, according to a CNN source, the cable network is not making layoffs, but "more than 100 staffers took part in a voluntary buyout program"
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There's no indication that the worst offenders -- Chris Cuomo, Brian Stelter, Manu Raju, Don Lemon, and Jim Acosta -- are going anywhere. Likely it's mostly the behind-the-scenes employees -- who have nothing to do with the network's editorial spin -- slated lose their jobs.
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lol
I’d like to turn out their lights.
...”I always feel enormous pride when I say I am with CNN,”...
Well that may be because your head is up your a$$. You might think differently once you pull it out and join the real world.
More winning! Did I say I was tired of winning? NOT!
Bye bye FAKE NEWS! ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I wouldn’t consider it as much a “brain drain” as it will be a high colonic...….
All these people sacrificed for about a dozen talking head morons and idiots causing the ratings to decline. Do they think the ratings will go up if they get rid of them? Maybe they are using the layoffs as proof of the Trump economy not working. Liberals are truly dumb as bricks
Only 300 ?
It’s a Start.
Simple...no viewers. Viewers finally realized that CNN does not report news, it's a 24-hour editorial on their agenda. So, people have tuned out. Trust me, when the CNN contracts at airports runs out, CNN will be lucky if they have a night watchman.
Well when you have a guy like Zucker who has run the company into the ground this is the result. I remember when CNN came on the air, it really was pretty good, great shows and hosts. Then it made a hard left turn and now is destroying itself and has no credibility left.
If you run a fake news organization
You can set up 100 monkeys with typewriters and get a few “news” stories out of them every day
500 bananas have to be cheaper than ONE research staffer paycheck
They can learn to code.
No fan of dinosaur media in general of Commie Newz Netwerk
specifically...
...but...
it sucks to be pink slipped in your fifies.
Speaking from experience.
No. It's not. Spongebob Squarepants is comparatively more real.
And re-runs of it are beating you in primetime.
They have to fire these 300 so they can continue to meet the payroll for the Elite like Anderson Cooper.
444 days of “America Held Hostage”.
What hath Ted Koppel wrought?
Must be the “Obama Economy” tell us so much about!
Why aren’t turds like Don Lemon and Chris Cuomo taking pay cuts to help their co-workers?
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