Chris Licht

In June, Axios.com media reporter Sara Fischer implied CNN Reliable Sources host Brian Stelter could be on the chopping block as new CNN CEO Chris Licht promised to give the network a less partisan tone. From my distant perch, I dismissed that out of hand....and turned out to be wrong.

CNN’s chief media correspondent and liberal media janitor Brian Stelter — perhaps one of the most polarizing liberal journalists of all-time — is being pushed out of the network and his show Reliable Sources being cancelled following a final episode this coming Sunday.

The New York Times reported on the front page of its Business section on Wednesday that CNN's ratings are terrible and their financial picture looks rough. But reporter Benjamin Mullin wrote absolutely nothing about the network's liberal tilt, or losing its daily fearmongering about Donald Trump. Meanwhile, Fox was touting strong ratings for July.

On CNN's New Day, co-hosts Brianna Keilar and John Avlon, discussing Tuesday's primary results, parrot Democrat tropes, "democracy on the ballot," "election denier," and "the big lie." This despite new CNN head Chris Licht saying he wants the network to become less partisan, and to avoid such tropes, singling out "the big lie," because it "makes the mistake of adopting branding used by the…

On August 1, CNN host Brian Stelter touted how CBS came out of live coverage of Biden's speech on taking down al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri with a glistening shot of the New York skyline, hailing "the resilience of New York City and the American people." But when the Trump administration took out Iranian terrorist Gen. Qasem Soleimani, that was a nightmare of war and American lies.

Washington Free Beacon editor Eliana Johnson penned a story on Monday headlined “CNN Chief’s Republican Apology Tour.” Chris Licht has been trying to get Republicans to accept interview invitations. One hopes they expressed skepticism that a guy who's been in charge of Morning Joe and Stephen Colbert's Late Show knows anything about being nice to conservatives. 

Recently, CNN’s New Day has been on a streak of providing fairly objective reporting. Alas, it was a streak that Don Lemon decided to end this Thursday morning, ambling over from his 10 o’clock slot for what seemed to be a monthly Festivus tradition of his: complaining that the media isn’t doing enough to attack Republicans. Essentially openly opposing new CNN boss Chris Licht’s…

Axios.com media reporter Sara Fischer is a regular fixture in Brian Stelter’s Reliable Sources show and newsletter. So it’s a little shocking that Fischer is reporting that Stelter could be on the chopping block if he can’t adopt CNN’s new tone of being more straight-ahead news and less partisan trash talk. 

For a while now, there’s been rumors that CBS News would show CBS Evening News anchor Norah O’Donnell the door as her third-place newscast continues to skid. And with them penning a new contract a few months ago, those rumors seemed to be a bust. But according to a New York Post…

Wednesday's New Day was telling an inconvenient truth. Polling maven Harry Enten, in a discussion with co-host John Berman, pointed to a Gallup poll showing that a majority of Americans are either satisfied with the current level of gun control, or actually want less gun control! As you'll see in the screencap, Enten displayed numbers showing that only 36%, barely one-third, of…

During a Warner Brothers Discovery advertisers event on Wednesday, new CNN boss Chris Licht and WBD boss David Zaslav made waves with the former announcing he plans to make CNN a “beacon” for journalism and wanted to oppose the “extremes [that] are dominating cable news.” Meanwhile, the latter knocked other news outlets as mere “advocacy networks.” On top of that, they announced a new format…

The Wall Street Journal on May 13 conducted an excruciating deep dive on the disaster that was CNN+. The key takeaway: It was even worse than anyone thought. At any one time, there were as few as 5000 people watching. In a country of 329 million.

On Thursday, CNN’s global employee town hall generated some interesting news as new boss Chris Licht announced some of the plans and intentions to his nearly 5,000 underlings. Among the headline-worthy items to come out was Licht’s dissatisfaction with the morning show New Day, a desire to have something “fun” in Chris “Fredo” Cuomo's old 9:00 p.m. timeslot, a clampdown on leaks, and…

The media made a big deal out of the White House Correspondents Dinner being back with Biden, baby! At least he joked the press is less popular than he is.