Posted on 11/12/2024 4:14:22 PM PST by Libloather
Ratings-challenged CNN is reportedly set for a major bloodbath — with boss Mark Thompson expected to lay off high-priced on-air talent as part of wide-ranging layoffs.
The cable network — which lagged behind rivals MSNBC and Fox News during last week’s Election Night coverage — will implement “layoffs that will impact hundreds of employees across the organization,” according to Puck News.
Thompson, who took over last year after the ouster of Chris Licht, will cull personnel from CNN’s television production teams whose “talents won’t necessarily be needed in the new digital-first landscape,” the outlet added.
The network’s workforce is reported to be coping with “an atmosphere of high stress and high anxiety,” according to Puck.
Thompson, the former CEO of the New York Times and the BBC, may also demand deep cuts to the massive salaries raked in by its struggling primetime stable of anchors, which include Anderson Cooper, Erin Burnett and Kaitlan Collins.
Cooper, who anchored the Election night coverage, rakes in an annual salary reported to be as high as $20 million. Burnett makes about $6 million and Collins takes home a more budget-friendly $3 million.
The Post has sought comment from CNN.
Signs of change were apparent on Monday after Chris Wallace confirmed that he was leaving CNN — ending a three-year stint at the network that was marred by low ratings and turmoil in its corporate board.
Last month, the independent newsletter The Ankler reported that Thompson would ask Wallace, who was earning a reported salary of $8.5 million annually, as well as other top stars at the network such as Jake Tapper and Wolf Blitzer to take pay cuts.
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I haven't had such fun reading Free Republic EVER!!!!!!!!!! WOO HOOOOO!!!!!
Is Kaitlin Collins a GUY???
CNN news staff should have told the bosses to hold off for this breaking news:
They are going to reveal soon that they all hate Trump and will aim slurs at him.
Shouldn’t he keep them on for that?/S
Burn this bitch down!
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
CNN was “thrown off” with the rest of the commie trash.
CNN and MSNBC may both collapse
Daily Wire may be looking to buy MSNBC
This week just keeps getting better!
As part of Thompson’s reorganization plan, CNN will ask reporters and correspondents to assume more of the responsibilities that are currently being handled by producers and production assistants.
They’ll end up like the rinky-dinky small market TV stations where the “talent” stands in front of the camera and turns it on with a remote control.
MSDNC and CNN are one thing, but just wait til Trump and Elon work their way down to PBS and NPR!
>> The network’s workforce is reported to be coping with “an atmosphere of high stress and high anxiety,”
The poor dears...
👍🏻😆😁😂👍🏻
>> is that good or bad?
making those elitist schmucks roll up their sleeves & work? I’m thinking GOOD.
This is fun, isn’t it? 😁
Give Scott Jennings an hour show and I may consider tuning in.
Change it from CNN to MUSK
the size of Trumps win is finally the nail in their coffin. He totally ignored them and especilly the major newspapers...unthinkable 10 years ago. His Rogan interview has 50 million views on you tube alone. The “legacy” media has zero influence anymore.
ITS HAPPENED...THEY ARE DEAD!!!...TRUMPS BIGGEST WIN EVER,
Even the most green business leader would see that something different needs to be done to stabilize market share and ad revs.
And yet they do the same thing business wise over and over and over and.............
There’s not much use for a super closed-minded echo chamber of dishonesty, propaganda, hate, and anti-Democracy like them anymore.
I use the term “anti-Democracy” to describe a major political party whose leaders spent so much effort to try to destroy the possibility that any of us could have the choice on Trump in this year’s Election. The only way they could have gone towards trying to keep him off the ballot would have been to back someone else for the GOP nomination and then to have won that nomination race.
Personally I didn’t want Trump to win the GOP nomination race. I got a lot of Trump supporters angry on here over that view of mine. But then when the GOP voters picked him I accepted the result. And I looked at my alternative and it was an easy choice that I couldn’t vote for Biden. And when he was replaced by Harris it was likewise an easy choice that I couldn’t vote for Harris. And then I started listening to Trump more carefully & trying to understand his vision/plan. All indications that Trump 2.0 is going to be much better than Trump 1.0. I think he’s learned a lot. And he seems to now be a committed Constitutionalist.
I still have my fears that he’ll be a caveman who caves in to the demands of the Elitists. He did that so much as Trump 1.0. What he needs to do is be a Constitutionalist, drastically cut federal spending, balance the budget, get trade balanced, secure the border, drain the swamp, stop spending federal money on illegals/welfare, abolish all federal agencies not sanctioned by Article 1 & Amendment 10, and ensure that all Americans have real freedom.
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