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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I don’t think that they were really ‘cut. I think they were reassigned to do field work, realizing the need to devote more resources to digging up dirt on President Trump...
A Chinese controlled news organisation would not be allowed to broadcast in the US. Who controls CNN broadcast policy? Certianly not the anchors, they’re just talking heads. Somewhere I read that CNN had links to Qatar and other mideatern subversives.
IMHO CNN is on the slippery slope and it only gets steeper and more slippery everyday.
Just CNN’s way of trying to make Pres Trump look bad, by trying to up the unemployment numbers. :-D
They are known as talent. Can’t you tell?
“They can learn to code.”
Are you sure?
I hope all 300 of these LIB liars embrace the suck. I laugh at them. Liars deserve no less. Anyone who hires them must despise their own business. Losers.
No, I’m just giving them false hope.
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