CNN is going through an identity crisis.
Their new corporate bosses are not pleased with the product they inherited.
Now, CNN’s Brian Stelter just received some news that has him sweating bullets.
CNN is undergoing a massive shake-up in the aftermath of Warner Bros. and Discovery completing their merger.
Board member John Malone, who was the largest shareholder in Discovery prior to the merger and allegedly possesses a libertarian streak, has been vocal about his belief that CNN has become too biased.
In fact, Malone recently suggested that he’d like to see CNN become more like Fox News, and strike a better balance between hard news and opinion hosts.
One of the hosts who have been identified as being too biased is Brian Stelter, the network’s supposed media “watchdog,” who not only has a major left-wing bias, but is also not bringing in viewers.
“CNN’s Reliable Sources with left-wing host Brian Stelter had its lowest-rated episode since September 2019 on Sunday when only 580,000 viewers tuned into the struggling program,” Fox News reported. “‘Reliable Sources’ also struggled in the advertiser-coveted demographic of adults age 25-54, averaging only 73,000 viewers from the critical category.”
“Stelter’s program shed 13% of the total audience who tuned into the show that precedes it, ‘Fareed Zakaria GPS,’ and lost 25% of Zakaria’s viewers among the demo,” Fox News continued. “It was Stelter’s smallest audience since Sept. 15, 2019.”
Stelter has been called the “attack dog” of disgraced former CNN president Jeff Zucker, who was run out of the network for lying about a relationship he had with network executive Allison Gollust.
And he even had the audacity to publicly criticize one of his new bosses, Malone, after his contention that CNN was too biased.
Without Zucker to protect him, Stelter has truly put himself on the chopping block.
His low ratings and biased reporting could be the pretext needed to run Stelter out of the network.
For example, CNN’s so-called “media watchdog” refused to comment on the corporate press refusing to cover the assassination attempt against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh with any seriousness.
New CNN president, Chris Licht, already seems to be trying to rein in the network’s radical left-wing hosts.
He recently suggested that they not use the phrase “the big lie” to describe former President Donald Trump’s comments about possible voter fraud in the 2020 election.
Licht’s rationale was that the phrase was a Democrat talking point, which is correct.
According to internal leaks after Zucker’s ouster, several of CNN’s on-air personalities have voiced their frustration about the new direction of the network.
A tiger can’t change his stripes, so CNN will undoubtedly retain its left-wing bias.
It will probably just do so without Stelter.
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