After months of basically admitting that nobody is better than the best talent CNN can attract, the network is finally trying to relaunch its primetime lineup.
And CNN just picked Chris Cuomo’s replacement.
But the real news is getting swept under the rug.
CNN is taking on water faster than the Titanic.
While the network created the 24/7 news cycle, CNN has turned into yet another failing corporate-controlled media outlet, slowly circling the drain into bankruptcy.
When Chris Cuomo was fired from the network in disgrace for using his position to help save his crooked brother, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, from a sexual assault allegations, he took a significant portion of the executive team down with him.
Now, CNN is supposedly charting a new direction under new CEO Chris Licht, cleaning up the mess that the network has become and, somehow, turning it into a legitimate news network.
Over the past several months, Licht has taken major steps to doing just that, even making clear to his incredulous staff – on multiple occasions – that they can either ditch the left-wing propaganda and act like real journalists, or seek employment elsewhere.
Such a tectonic shift at the network was spurred by the merger of CNN parent company Warner Media and Discovery, Inc. into Warner Bros. Discovery, which brought in a new board of directors that aren’t messing around.
Several months ago, Warner Bros. Discovery board member John Malone, who was the largest shareholder in Discovery prior to the merger, made clear that CNN was charting a new path.
“I would like to see CNN evolve back to the kind of journalism that it started with, and actually have journalists, which would be unique and refreshing,” Malone told CNBC.
After several months of allowing his staff to once again establish their profound level of incompetence, Licht finally took action, firing the incompetent and unethical left-wing hack, Brian Stelter.
Then he dropped the ball.
After Stelter’s exit, media industry observers assumed other unhinged leftists on staff would follow him out the door.
It looked likely when he demoted Don Lemon to a new morning show, leaving John Berman and Brianna Keilar without a time slot.
If CNN were serious about tamping down left-wing bias, the obvious move would have been to show Keilar to the door.
She’s an unapologetic left-wing extremist who spends more time slamming Fox News than attempting to report any actual news herself.
Instead, Licht has announced that Jake Tapper will be taking over the timeslot left vacant by Chris Cuomo’s firing, and quietly let Keilar slide into Tapper’s old slot.
When bragging about CNN’s new lineup, Licht was careful to avoid mentioning Keiler at all, probably in hopes it would go mostly unnoticed.
That’s certainly possible, considering how few viewers any CNN show manages to attract these days.
Much to Keilar’s irritation, Fox News has now spent 83 consecutive weeks as the most watched cable news network, according to Nielsen ratings released September 12, with an average of 1.42 million daily viewers.
Meanwhile, CNN is dragging way behind with an average of just 597,000 average daily viewers, a number that you would think would prompt Licht to get serious about cleaning up the newsroom.
But it’s clear he’s all talk and no real action.
Pants on Fire News will keep you up-to-date on any developments to this ongoing story.
J. C. Clemmer
October 19, 2019 at 4:29 am
Goodbye Communist News Network!!! You’ve been here far, far too long
Han
October 19, 2019 at 4:28 pm
CNN far worse then the third world & Dictator media COUNTRY. I never never think it is happening in this country,.What a shame& embarrassing.
Ugly
October 19, 2019 at 9:24 pm
I hope when this lawsuit is over Zucker won’t even have two pennies to rub together and no ownership in a network news program! He should be locked up and the keys thrown away and a video of President Trump playing in his cell 24/7!!!
Lewell
October 20, 2019 at 8:36 am
At one time the American people trusted the news media.
Because of media like CNN we no longer feel that we can trust any of the media.
It is an indication of the direction that the Democratic Party is leading this nation in.
bb_Boomer1949
October 20, 2019 at 2:17 pm
It’s just as well CNN is worse than useless as a source of news they are dangerous.
Len
October 20, 2019 at 2:59 pm
I agree with your comments completely. I do however, think there might be a solution whereby the media puts under their comments that these are their options or editorial comments but not real news. That way, the public can determine if they want to continue listening or turn the station off. It would clearly help Americans who don’t understand what is happening to have some perspective on the station they are watching. It would require CNN, MSNBC and all the mainstream news stations to report facts, not fiction. Sure it won’t happen but it should. The news has too much power to control what Americans hear and see.
Hurley Henson
October 21, 2019 at 3:35 pm
CNN has always been nothing but fake news and propaganda. Please Mr. President, sue them to non existence.
Michael Hughes
October 21, 2019 at 3:35 pm
Do not “threaten”, DO IT!
JP
October 21, 2019 at 3:42 pm
“COULD LAND HIM IN JAIL”, “WILL CAUSE HER DEPORTATION”, “HAS RUINED ELECTION CHANCES”, “COULD BE AN ACT OF TREASON”, “COULD END THE NETWORK FOR GOOD” (and countless others)………..Do you really think these types of sensational headlines will keep people reading when no one has the balls to act on them? If the average person pulled what is going on (flat out lies, libel, defamation, blatant violation of our country’s Constitutional Law, etc.) we would be sued to poverty and probably in jail. Thousands of irrefutable proof of malicious doings and lawbreaking by the Dems and no recursive action because everyone’s afraid of being called a racist or sexist or some such crap. This country was founded on religious freedom but now we are all supposed to be afraid of professing Christian faith. Is anyone doing anything about it beside hiding in the corners? Hell no. I, for one, am sick of all the rhetoric and lack of action. I took an oath to defend this country against ALL enemies, foreign and domestic and we have more on the domestic side than not. I will stay true to my oath and the 22yrs I was in the Marine Corps until the day I go to meet my maker. Positive action is needed to let the American people know that their interest is at heart and this is not just two neighborhood gangs fighting over turf. Criminal process should be started for the wrongs for which their is 100% proof i.e., Schiff, Nadler, Pelosi, Biden, the supposed “whistleblower”. The media says the proof is there. Where is the action?
Trump is a businessman NOT A POLITICIAN and that is a good thing because the people and America come first!!!
Time to finish draining the swamp on both side of the aisle.
Yvonne
October 21, 2019 at 4:06 pm
This network has fallen down about as low as possible, they need to be taken off as any kind of news!!
C. Yanke
October 21, 2019 at 4:42 pm
It is sometimes necessary to slap down one bully so the others get the message. Let the law suits fly! If they are forced out of business, so be it. Perhaps the rest will reexamine their policies and get back t to the center where they are supposed to be. It is their job to report the news, not make or tilt it.
Mart3
October 21, 2019 at 4:50 pm
I would guess CNN delivers fake news, mostly based on the many headlines I see, but since I never watch it how can I be sure? -wink-
Karen
October 21, 2019 at 5:16 pm
email the president and request that he sues CNN (not just think about it) Show some spine and and take Action just do it. Words are CHEAP
Jeannette Solinsky
October 21, 2019 at 5:34 pm
I agree, Karen! So sick and tired of empty threats from this administration! President Trump was elected to put this country back on the right track,but all he seems to do is kick the can down the road as far as prosecuting any of these traitors!
Ron
October 21, 2019 at 5:47 pm
GLAD to see U R going gone real soon ! And Y don’t U take
MSM, MSNBC, ABC, CBS and NBC a long with U CNN !! I hate to say butt I’m glad 2 see U so soon but good RIDDANCE !!!
Mikel Esque
October 21, 2019 at 6:03 pm
About time somebody takes action against this lying network. I also hope Nick Sandmaan wins his case against them.
Michael G Warren
October 21, 2019 at 6:10 pm
We get CNN in both English and Spanish here in Chile. It is all garbage…so Anti-American and anti-Trump.
VGF
October 21, 2019 at 6:13 pm
Isn`t it Time the American Citizens Saw some REAL action..AND That MEANS… Drain the Damned Swamp..As Promised. NOT just piecemeal..But Drained to the Dirty dregs And Then, A Bomb Blasting the Dregs to H… ! We Have heard All of the Promises WE Want TO HEAR. NOW, it is TIME Those Traitors WERE Hung for Their DIRT-Bag Actions against OUR Country. President Trump…What ARE you Waiting for ?? A Total uprising to take Place here, AND for THE People to Get Finished OFF..once and for all.. what Has already Gone on for FAR TOO Long ?? PLEASE.. Just DO IT. This Country Needs This DONE>>NOW. LIKE a Bad Smell…The Object of it,,Must First Be removed..And THEN, the BAD Smell Will Go !!
Oat35
October 21, 2019 at 6:15 pm
The FCC should shut down CNN network for threats against a sitting President and admitting to targeting President Trumps downfall and demise.
Bruce
October 21, 2019 at 6:22 pm
Could not have said it better!! The whole problem is that NOTHING IS BEING DONE BY THE REPUBLICANS, They have Mountains of evidence, yet NO ONE IS BEING PROSECUTED. WTF??? When will the Republicans GROW A PAIR?? When will they start arresting the Traitors like Schiff, Pelosi, Schumer, Nadler, Both Clintons, and above all TRAITOR #44 who instigated the whole Treasonous acts committed by DemoRATS. The Republicans are ABSENT from politics.
Tom
October 21, 2019 at 6:49 pm
Yeah, just like CNN’s words are cheap, and that is exactly why I don’t watch or listen too CNN, and no other MSM station, the only ones I watch are Fox News, and then when they start repeating themselves, I start watching Newsy, which never seem to repeat themselves, but I just like too watch Fox News first, I think their newscasters seem to be more proffesional.
Daniel Rhoads
October 21, 2019 at 8:04 pm
CNN–CERTIFIED NUTS NEWS!!!! That is why they are self destructing!! They cannot tell the truth!! GOD help them on Judgement Day and facing GOD!!!!…
Rose P
October 21, 2019 at 8:24 pm
CNN is NOT a news show, it is a playground for The Left who hate Trump so much they are failing & falling faster than a ton of bricks!!
Rita Maloney
October 22, 2019 at 2:39 am
CNN net work needs to be replaced by a true fair network by replacing each and every hate monger of Trump there! And net work itself.
Camille gilliam
October 22, 2019 at 7:16 am
My husband called his first Att. and suggested that they trademark his name because the news channels kept talking about him in a negative way and then they would have to pay him because they used his name.
Walkin O'Shea
October 24, 2019 at 12:40 am
CNN has no place in American homes. They are a propaganda machine for the liberal left dims. They smack of Goebbels’s Nazi propaganda machine. Now if that had existed in the US, they would have been arrested and prosecuted. Why not CNN? I hope the President sues them to such an extent that he gets to own them.
Hondo
October 24, 2019 at 12:54 am
May CNN rot in HELL! May GOD strike them down and burn their eyes and mouths.
Ken Marx
October 24, 2019 at 8:45 pm
I’ve seen your comment before and agree with you. These headlines have been a staple for years. “SO AND SO SAID THIS ONE WORD THAT WILL END WHATSITS CAREER.” ” WHATSITS HAD A MELTDOWN ON CAMERA” and on and on. Such headlines have become so routine that they emit the same feeing as IMPEACH, COLLUSION and RACIST. They are meaningless and toothless. That I generally like the content of an article is lost by my distain for the shock headline. I suspect there are many others who agree with us.
WhereIsTheTruth?
October 25, 2019 at 12:32 am
I think CNN will just claim ‘free speech’. I don’t watch them at all.
I’m very concerned that Google Search doesn’t show conservative or pro- Trump articles. I don’t want to read articles from CNN or MSNBC. How is Trump supposed to win, if people never hear what he has done, and what he is doing? What he has accomplished is amazing considering all the lies about him. Now we have this very disturbing ‘impeachment’ process. Where can people find the truth?
Ron
October 28, 2019 at 5:17 pm
Bring it on PRESIDENT TRUMP ! HE needs to take the REST of the DERANGED and DEPLORABLE MEDIA NEWS NETWORK’S off the air too !
Besides CNN ! MSM, MSNBC, ABC, CBS and NBC .