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Acosta is an aggressive interviewer, and executives might be thinking that his approach is unappealing to right-leaning viewers,
Pitney said
Rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic won't save CNN. But bending the knee to the powerful instead of holding them accountable is a permanent stain on CNN's legacy,
Gordon saidI've lost a lot of respect for them,
Kim said
Acosta is one of your most independent, unafraid hosts,
Walsh said ThursdayHonestly I think you should let me run the country and you run CNN. If you did it well, your ratings would be much better."
In the wake of the midterm elections, Acosta interrogated Trump at a press briefing about demonizing "invasion" immigrants for political points—a line of questioning that prompted the president to respond.jpg)
What we saw the president build over the course of four or five years out on the campaign trail and over at the White House just sort of unraveled at the end,
Acosta said on CNN in January 2021A couple of things are at work here,
John Pitney, a veteran political scientist and former Republican National Committee official, told Newsweek on FridayIf they are shifting journalists' time slots or editorial independence to curry favor, they're not only hurting their culture but their reputation as a media organization,
James Haggerty, a crisis communications expert and president of PRCG Haggerty, told Newsweek
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 CEO Mark Thompson said in an internal memo obtained by Fox News Digital
They want to get rid of Acosta to throw a bone to Trump,
one media executive told Status News
In the meantime, thank you very much for joining us this morning. Still reporting from Washington. I’m Jim Acosta,
he said, making sure to emphasize “still.”We are in active discussions with Jim about a new time slot and will have more information to share soon,
a CNN spokesperson told Fox News DigitalAcosta is a talented broadcaster who could handle any slot on the network,
a CNN staffer told Fox News DigitalSome of that money’s going in product and tech, but a lot is also going into new high-quality journalism and storytelling,
he wrote
Redundant assignments will be nixed, and various divisions will be reduced or even eliminated
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