CNN thrills the wingnuts
“Everything about this rollout points to [Discovery board member] John Malone and [Discovery CEO] David Zaslav,” a source familiar with the situation told The Daily Beast. “Chris Licht did not want to do this.”
In February, he called out Malone, the billionaire mogul who told CNBC last year that after Discovery’s merger with WarnerMedia, he’d “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,”
“The people who say the Zucker-era CNN was lacking in real journalism clearly were not watching CNN directly,” Stelter wrote in the Reliable Sources newsletter. “My best guess is that they were watching talking heads and reading columnists complain about CNN. And yes, I’m including John Malone in this.”