CNN’s New Chief Says the Network Needs to Recapture the “Swagger and Innovation” of its Youth

AP News ^ | January 17, 2024 | David Bauder

[nickcarraway]

CNN’s new chief executive says the company needs to recapture the “swagger and innovation” of its early days — and that, he says, increasingly means embracing a future outside of television.

Mark Thompson, appointed CNN’s chief executive last fall after stints at The New York Times and BBC, outlined a strategy to his staff Wednesday that included a corporate restructuring but few external specifics on how that transformation will take place.

Once a “scrappy outsider,” CNN has been slow to respond to the reality of its primary television business shrinking, Thompson said in his memo. He was not made available for an on-the-record interview with The Associated Press.

[MeganC]

CNN is irrelevant.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

And the airport captive audience.

[Ronald77]

All talking heads will now be transgender gay, and lesbian.

[BigFreakinToad]

CNN lost me when Billy C was in office.

[JBW1949]

Get rid of the libs and go conservative!!!!!!!!!!!!

[catnipman]

” appointed CNN’s chief executive last fall after stints at The New York Times and BBC”

uh, yeah ... this dude won’t change squat at CNN ... perhaps rearrange the deck chairs a bit at best ...

[catnipman]

“All talking heads will now be transgender gay, and lesbian.”

Put a black chick in it, and make her gay ...

[Dan in Wichita]

I never cared much for Bernard Shaw, but he is a giant compared to the unethical midgets CNN employes now.

[NWFree]

CNN fake news needs to be purchased by Elon Musk

[Lou Foxwell]

Well that is ignorant! CNN needs to grow up and stop acting the role of a spoiled brat. None of us need the swagger of a network that prides itself on its own arrogance. Grow up and be a mature citizen CNN!

[sasquatch]

Calling Ted Turner...

[Buttons12]

I don’t remember a time when there was no CNN, but it was one of the reasons I grew up without a tv.

[Carriage Hill]

A one-legged, black, dwarf, one-eyed, tattoo-mutilated woman will round-out the talking head line-up, nicely.

[Rummyfan]

Once a “scrappy outsider,” CNN has been slow to respond to the reality of its primary television business shrinking...

Maybe if every primetime host wasn't a raging leftist, or gay, or both, and CNN evidenced a little impartiality, it would have a primetime audience.

[Rummyfan]

Once a “scrappy outsider,” CNN has been slow to respond to the reality of its primary television business shrinking

We need a new host. Make it a chick and make sure she's gay (to paraphrase Cartman).

[bosco24]

Telling the truth may help.

[Rummyfan]

” appointed CNN’s chief executive last fall after stints at The New York Times and BBC”

LOL!

[IAGeezer912]

Their heyday was the 1990 Gulf War when Baghdad bombing was done real time.