BY C STONE | STONE NEWS NETWORK
This past Thursday CNN announced about 200 people would be losing their jobs, thanks to CEO Mark Thompson, a former CEO of The NYT and BBC -- due to their lagging revenues.
CNN's viewership has declined since President Donald Trump took office - who plan on putting more money into their "Digital" departments - thanks to Discovery's $70 million dollar "investment".
They moved Jake Tapper's show "The Lead" to 1 hour later. Jim Acosta was removed from his morning show. Wolf Blitzer has been pushed to the mornings. Instead, he'll have a show called "The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown."
“The changes we’re announcing today are part of an ongoing response by this great news organization to profound and irreversible shifts in the way audiences in America and around the world consume news,” Thompson shared in a memo.
Here’s a look at CNN’s full programming lineup moving forward:
5-6a ET: “5 Things with Rahel Solomon“
6-7a ET: “CNN This Morning with Audie Cornish“
7-10a ET: “CNN News Central“
10a-12p ET: “The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown“
12-1p ET: “Inside Politics with Dana Bash“
1-4p ET: “CNN News Central“
4-5p ET: “CNN’s The Arena with Kasie Hunt“
5-7p ET: “The Lead with Jake Tapper“
7-8p ET: “Erin Burnett OutFront“
8-9p ET: “Anderson Cooper 360“
9-10p ET: “The Source with Kaitlan Collins“
10-11p ET: “NewsNight with Abby Phillip“
11p-12a ET: “Laura Coates Live“
CNN staff are angry about Mark Thompsons 'tone deaf' attitude. “He gave the least inspiring remarks about layoffs that I’ve ever heard,” one CNN employee.
“Our objective is a simple one: to shift CNN’s gravity towards the platforms and products where the audience themselves are shifting and, by doing that, to secure CNN’s future as one of the world’s greatest news organizations,” CNN chief Mark Thompson said in an internal memo.
Thompson, who has done literally nothing to advance CNN - somehow thinks he can continue to lead this company.
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