![]() She pissed off Trump and anti-Trumpers and made it all worse by trying to go down to Mar A Lago to apologize a week or so later."Īnother media big wig, but one not at the conference, told me he thinks Licht is "done" at CNN. Like him (I assume), she came to regret it. The last big piece he did was this masterful takedown of Nikki Haley that continues to dog and define her. "It was doubly shocking to me that they thought Tim Alberta was the best idea for this. "You are welcome to use my snuff film line anonymously!" They chose Licht as their latest champion of harmless vanilla inoffensiveness. The American billionaire class has convinced themselves that the way to save journalism is to make it as bland and as both-sidesy as possible. The problem isn't Licht, it's his paymasters. Cnn revenues have now shrunk under his disastrous leadership." Also it's so clear Licht lacks the management experience to steer a behemoth like cnn and he's seeing his task more like running a show than a multi-billion-dollar company. " covid comments demonstrate such naïveté and should make us all fear that this man is in charge of the country's largest news organization. Licht seems to have no one looking out for him-to tell him how grunting during a workout is, in this moment, going to make him look. Zucker had an army of image protectors and broke through them when he wanted to. "Licht seems to be suffering the opposite PR problem as Zucker. In Alberta's depiction, it went so poorly because Licht was unprepared and perhaps had unserious ideas about how to cover Trump.Īt one moment in the story, months before the town hall, a student asks Licht how he'll guide the network's coverage of a twice-impeached, election-denying, Capitol riot-cheering former president. The big blunder Alberta returns to over and over in the story is the May 10 Trump town hall. "But that probably wouldn't have helped.") At one point, I wanted to just say, 'We're not going to turn into BuzzFeed, okay?'" Licht told Alberta. When a pair of them caught a glimpse of Licht's phone, they could see that he was reading a critical story about him in Puck."Ī clear-the-air town hall where he gets irritated with the CNN journalist interviewing him. "It became so awkward that guests began texting one another, wondering if there was some crisis unfolding with an international bureau. Licht trashing his CNN colleagues for the way they reported on COVID.Ī Christmas party in DC where Licht refused to socialize with colleagues and instead stared at his phone the whole time. Other ugly moments from the story include: It leaves you wondering if Licht actually has a vision or has been handed one by his bosses. The whole story portrays Licht as someone who is more obsessed with his predecessor and the way he ran the company than someone with a good or even well-articulated plan for how to lead CNN into the future. But why did Licht have a reporter with him at the gym? And maybe the joke is a telling one? Maybe it was unfair of Alberta to include it. For those who don't know, Jeff Zucker was Licht's predecessor at CNN. "Zucker couldn't do this shit," Licht said through clenched teeth, hoisting the pole with a grunt. At Maysonet's instruction, he squatted down to grab a long metal pole lying flat on the ground. On this morning, in March 2023, the CNN boss was down to 178 pounds. ("I'm a fucking machine," Licht told me one day, when I asked why he was skipping a meal.) He also found Maysonet, whose gym, J Train, caters to New York's elite-actors, athletes, business tycoons. Worried that he was losing control of his lifestyle, he went all in. ![]() Three years ago, Licht weighed 226 pounds. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. ![]()
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