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CNN begins slashing jobs as Chris Licht cuts costs: report
NY Post ^ | November 30, 2022 | By Thomas Barrabi

Posted on 11/30/2022 8:59:26 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

CNN began a long-expected round of layoffs on Wednesday as president Chris Licht and other executives at WarnerBros. Discovery trim costs at the struggling cable news network.

Licht informed CNN employees of the cuts in a memo and acknowledged “it will be a difficult time for everyone” at the company.

“It is incredibly hard to say goodbye to any one member of the CNN team, much less many. I recently described this process as a gut punch, because I know that is how it feels for all of us,” Licht said in the memo, which was shared on Twitter by CNN media reporter Oliver Darcy.

Licht said the pink slips would begin with “a limited number of individuals, largely some of our paid contributors” as part of a “recalibrated reporting strategy.”

The company will begin notifying other impacted employees on Thursday, with additional details from Licht on CNN’s next steps to follow by that afternoon.

It wasn’t immediately clear how many of CNN’s roughly 4,000 employees worldwide are being chopped.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cnn; fake; news
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1 posted on 11/30/2022 8:59:26 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Something’s coming.... Don’t call it a ‘Recession’.


2 posted on 11/30/2022 9:00:18 AM PST by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness )
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Makes you wonder how they will function in 2023.


3 posted on 11/30/2022 9:01:44 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What rational company would pay premium rates to advertise on CNN?


4 posted on 11/30/2022 9:02:35 AM PST by allendale
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I had a nice chat with Lynn Russell at a Veterans Day event a couple years ago. You may remember her as one of the main CNN newsreaders in their glory years in the 1990s. She’s also very much a conservative.

I think it fair to say she was beyond horrified at what CNN has become.


5 posted on 11/30/2022 9:02:37 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Some good news for the day.


6 posted on 11/30/2022 9:02:38 AM PST by Parley Baer (WI)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

My cnn dream shitcan list:

Lemon

Cooper

Christiane Amanpour

And the proper jackass that is acosta


7 posted on 11/30/2022 9:04:12 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“We will defend our leftist bias to the last employee!”


8 posted on 11/30/2022 9:05:50 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Christmas came early at CNN. A pink slip and a years membership to the Jelly-of-the-Month club.


9 posted on 11/30/2022 9:07:41 AM PST by Autonomous User (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Practice “Paper of plastic?” one hundred times.


10 posted on 11/30/2022 9:07:59 AM PST by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

CNN cannot recover an audience until it purges its anti Trump on air personalities. In other words, everybody.


11 posted on 11/30/2022 9:11:23 AM PST by DeplorablePaul ("..)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Thanks for the best good news of this day!


12 posted on 11/30/2022 9:13:59 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Has anyone, recently, seen a Biden sticker on any vehicle and in particular at/in a gas station!!!)
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CNN can’t cut enough…it is a cancer on humanity…


13 posted on 11/30/2022 9:21:21 AM PST by TnTnTn
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14 posted on 11/30/2022 9:22:10 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

And yet Don Lemon is still around!!!


15 posted on 11/30/2022 9:33:22 AM PST by ontap
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

CNN did the bidding for the Democrats, Soros, and CCP. Now they are no longer needed and will die a slow horrible death. WAKE UP FAKE NEWS! Your time is coming!


16 posted on 11/30/2022 9:34:05 AM PST by LoveMyFreedom
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...largely some of our paid contributors...

Poor Andy McCabe and Peter Strzok will have to hit the bricks. Sad. Can MSNBC budget these poor homeless waifs in?

17 posted on 11/30/2022 9:57:44 AM PST by Magnatron
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Gut the fake news network.


18 posted on 11/30/2022 9:58:36 AM PST by tennmountainman ( Less Lindell CONS, More AZ Style Audits)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I love the smell of CNN burning in the morning!


19 posted on 11/30/2022 10:17:17 AM PST by JesusIsLord
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Wow! It’s a good thing CNN was never a liberal outlet as Don “Black Hole” Lemon pointed out or there would be so many more lay offs.


20 posted on 11/30/2022 11:18:14 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Freedom is never free. It must be won rewon and jealously guarded.)
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