Over the past few years, CNN has faced a number of challenges such as plummeting TV ratings, changes in executive leadership, and significant restructuring. Recent reports show that CNN is now slashing approximately 100 jobs as the company’s leadership announced a substantial overhaul of the left-leaning news network.
Current CNN CEO Mark Thompson was hired last October and charged with modernizing the network, which has struggled to keep up with cable ratings of other legacy mainstream media news outlets such as Fox News and MSNBC. Thompson reportedly seeks to improve CNN’s digital presence and implement artificial intelligence capabilities.
According to a recent memo sent to company staffers, Thompson laid out a “key milestone in the transformation of CNN” that would result in the firing of about 100 employees, translating to a 3 percent overall reduction in headcount. Reportedly, the chief executive has been very candid with employees about the drastic steps required to mitigate CNN’s challenges.
“Turning a great news organization towards the future is not a one-day affair. It happens in stages and over time,” Thompson stated in his internal memo. “Today’s announcements do not answer every question or seek to solve every challenge we face. However, they do represent a significant step forward and I hope you will read about them in that spirit.”
Leading Report broke the news of the CNN firings on X, writing, “BREAKING: CNN to lay off 3% of its workforce in hopes of fighting off declines in its traditional TV business.” Subsequently, conservatives in the comments section took the opportunity to blast CNN as an example of the “fake news” “mainstream media” that is dying out due to its alleged lack of journalistic integrity.
“MSM is dying especially fake news media like cnn,” wrote Missouri’s 41st Secretary of State Valentia Gomez. Another user echoed the same sentiment commenting, “MSM is dying, they have lost the trust of the people.” They also shared an image of left-wing media pundits with the text, “We all lied to you! Over and and over again! We lied about the election, Russian Collusion, the special counsel.”
Prominent conservative news account RedWave Press stated, “CNN should do actual journalism and maybe they wouldn’t continue to lose money.” Another person said, “Maybe they should lay off 95 percent and start reporting the actual truth for once,” suggesting that if leadership were to gut the whole organization and start over it could lead to success.
Another person sounded off on the progressive woke ideology that has infiltrated the media, blaming it for the decline. “I find it funny that the MSM is responsible for all the wôkies and the wôkîes are going to be responsible for the death of MSM. The MSM thought since they made the wôkîes, they controlled how the wôkîes thought. They were wrong The wôkîes are siding with Joe Biden,” they said.
One user joked, that they offered to buy the whole organization for pennies on the dollar several years ago while quipping that very few people are even still employed at the company. “To the 3 of you losing your jobs at CNN. I offered to buy the whole operation for $47.95 in 2020 and had they taken my offer you would be getting laid off from the most watched news agency in America.”
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