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CNN Lays Off Almost Entire Division, Surprises Employees As ‘Crazy Rumor’ Comes True
The Daily Caller ^ | 8:20 PM 05/24/2019 | Scott Morefield

Posted on 05/25/2019 8:43:53 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

CNN laid off almost all of its health care coverage division Tuesday, in a move the network called a “crazy rumor” less than three weeks ago.

While Dr. Sanjay Gupta is expected to keep his job, most of the rest of the division, based out of Atlanta, were released.

Fox News reported:

TVNewser, a media watchdog site started by CNN’s Brian Stelter, managed to get confirmation from the network — just in time for a Friday news dump.

“As part of the normal course of business, our newsgathering team made a small restructure earlier this week that ultimately impacts 6-7 employees within CNN’s Health Unit,” a CNN spokesperson told TVNewser’s A.J. Katz.

Many health department staffers met with human resources on Tuesday. Katz noted that correspondent Elizabeth Cohen is also safe.

Katz told Fox News that three divisions—CNN Health, CNN Climate, and the network’s Atlanta-based Southeast Bureau—will be combined into one. (RELATED: CNN Wrote Over 20 Articles On Covington Catholic Students, Ignores Philly Muslim Children Chanting About Chopping Off Heads)

Employees are “shocked,” Fox News reported, because CNN Health “is considered successful” and the network had just firmly denied layoff rumors earlier this month. In fact, executive vice president Allison Gollust told Fox News on May 7 that there were “no mass layoffs” in the works.

“I have no idea where that crazy rumor came from,” she said. “We have recently offered a voluntary buyout option for employees, and just over 100 people voluntarily decided to take it. That’s it. We have nearly 4,000 people at CNN … and around 100 of them exercised the option for a program that was offered. That’s it. Those are the facts.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cnn; conspiracytheory; crazyrumors; fakenews; layoffs; lyingliars; media; msm; trashtv
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

CNN has 4,000 staff?? Butt-buddies hiring other butt-buddies.


21 posted on 05/25/2019 9:41:26 AM PDT by Lockbar (What would Vlad The Impaler do?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

My doctor’s office used to run CNN medical in the waiting room. Then I went in one day to see it was on RT! That’s Russian tv news. LOL It was much more international news than I’ve seen on any American channel.


22 posted on 05/25/2019 9:41:31 AM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They can’t survive the year at this pace with this management approach.


23 posted on 05/25/2019 9:41:45 AM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Good!


24 posted on 05/25/2019 9:44:47 AM PDT by gunsequalfreedom
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

CNN sold off all of its satellite trucks in 2017. That’s when I knew CNN was is SERIOUS trouble. This is just another step down that same road.


25 posted on 05/25/2019 9:45:33 AM PDT by VideoPaul
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Shocking....who is going to do the research, script writing and translating medical and health stories for the “Rent-a-Doc”?


26 posted on 05/25/2019 9:47:33 AM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Start using cash and checks or the elite class and bankers will make "cashless" the norm.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Hahaha. Any business owner who wants his business to succeed would never hire any of these worthless liars and scum bums.


27 posted on 05/25/2019 9:47:59 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“...6-7...”?
There should be have been hundreds laid-off.


28 posted on 05/25/2019 9:49:42 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

>>>“I have no idea where that crazy rumor came from,” she said. “We have recently offered a voluntary buyout option for employees, and just over 100 people voluntarily decided to take it. That’s it. We have nearly 4,000 people at CNN … and around 100 of them exercised the option for a program that was offered. That’s it. Those are the facts.

It’s so true... CNN generates fake news!


29 posted on 05/25/2019 9:55:51 AM PDT by existentially_kuffer
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
If CNN were a 1950s movie character, a friend would have walked with him down a dark hallway, exchanged glances with him, and stopped in front of a dark room. The friend would have reached around the door jamb, turned on the light. In the room would have been a desk and a chair--no other furniture.

Neither the character nor the friend would have offered to shake hands, but the character would give the friend one last look and entered the room, shutting the door behind him. The character would have contemplated the room, then the desk. He would have sat down and taken a deep breath. Then he would have reached down to the bottom drawer, opened it and pulled out a revolver.

Outside the door, the friend would have lit a cigarette--one of those small, filterless kinds--and waited.

Sooner or later, there would be a single gun shot from inside the room, then a thud.

That would have been the final end of CNN.
30 posted on 05/25/2019 10:00:58 AM PDT by righttackle44 (Takes scalps. Leave the bodies as a warning.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
CNN’s Health Unit terminated due to lack of health? What was the prognosis?

Did the treatment not work? Maybe under their health care plan there was no support for those in a terminal situation.

Did Delirium set in? Not uncommon for a high-risk population such as CNN employees to experience delirium in these situations.

Hopefully CNN held an intervention to assist with end of the health group to address emotional and existential needs.

31 posted on 05/25/2019 10:07:34 AM PDT by Lockbox
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
learn to code b1tches...
32 posted on 05/25/2019 10:11:48 AM PDT by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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To: \/\/ayne

As an old-school newspaperman, retired now these 10 years, I have often had the same thought.

Or as the late Andrew Breitbart once told journalists: “It’s not your business model that sucks, it’s you that sucks.”


33 posted on 05/25/2019 10:15:14 AM PDT by Nothingburger
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

So CNN even lies to its own people, why is this not surprising?


34 posted on 05/25/2019 10:15:14 AM PDT by thoughtomator (The Clinton Coup attempt was a worse attack on the USA than was 9/11)
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To: sparklite2

The professionalism of RT puts the Communist media to shame. Too bad they put “Russia” in their name, if they didn’t they would already be the #2 cable news channel.


35 posted on 05/25/2019 10:16:38 AM PDT by thoughtomator (The Clinton Coup attempt was a worse attack on the USA than was 9/11)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“...unexpectedly”

Bwaa-hahaha.


36 posted on 05/25/2019 10:24:10 AM PDT by simpson96
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Shelter is a joke


37 posted on 05/25/2019 10:29:15 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: The Sons of Liberty
CNN should do this with Wolfie Blitzer and the communist "news" [sic] division

Conrad Black, in his book on President Trump, wrote that Wolf Blitzer was "the greediest employee I ever had, and among thousands of journalists, that was a signal distinction." p. 133

38 posted on 05/25/2019 10:30:54 AM PDT by T Ruth (Mohammedanism shall be destroyed.)
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To: Pravious

I’m pretty sure I had “BlueJay Guppie” treat me for something once early in his Medical career.

He must have been an intern at UM medical? I was surprised because he spoke normal English.


39 posted on 05/25/2019 10:39:21 AM PDT by Beagle8U (It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

More good news for this month and in time for the Memorial Day Weekend.


40 posted on 05/25/2019 10:46:22 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Make Liberals Cry Again by continuing to Make America Great Again! Reelect President Trump in 2020!)
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