New CEO on CNN: Time to Take out the Trash
Posted By: Dreadnought, 4/18/2022 11:39:27 PM
We’ve talked about the change of ownership of CNN and how the word was that they would be changing things to move CNN back to its roots of being a news organization, the way it was decades ago. Now, David Zaslav, the Warner Bros. Discovery head who is taking over the conglomerate that includes CNN and a variety of other entertainment networks, is speaking out on his intentions. He sat with Oprah Winfrey this past week, outlined some of the changes that would be coming, and bashed “advocacy networks.” The CEO told Winfrey that CNN needs to be about reporting and truth and facts.
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