CNN Lays Off Almost Entire Division, Surprises Employees As ‘Crazy Rumor’ Comes True

The Daily Caller ^ | 8:20 PM 05/24/2019 | Scott Morefield

[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.”

[Lockbar]

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

[sparklite2]

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.

[G Larry]

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

[gunsequalfreedom]

Good!

[VideoPaul]

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.

[RetiredTexasVet]

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

[hal ogen]

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

[Carriage Hill]

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

[existentially_kuffer]

>>>“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!

[righttackle44]

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.

[Lockbox]

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.

[Chode]

learn to code b1tches...

[Nothingburger]

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.”

[thoughtomator]

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

[thoughtomator]

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.

[simpson96]

“...unexpectedly”

Bwaa-hahaha.

[Nifster]

Shelter is a joke

[T Ruth]

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

[Beagle8U]

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.

[Grampa Dave]

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