'It's like watching a snuff film': Media elites shocked by The Atlantic's surgical dismantling of CNN boss Chris Licht
I spent the last couple days at a conference in a fancy resort town with current and former bosses of news organizations. We shared notes. We tried to figure out how to survive a world where AI models are vacuuming up everything we write without giving credit, and Facebook has basically stopped serving news links.But then, yesterday morning, over coffee and chia seed pudding, I sensed a change in the air. Something had happened.A snuff film, of course, is a video where someone is murdered.
He pumped his arms and legs on a machine inside a workout studio two blocks from the Hudson River. Joe Maysonet, a former boxer who wore polka-dot pajama pants, a green oxford shirt, and a peach-colored beanie, stood with his arms crossed, chirping at his client:"Did I say stop? No, I did not!" Licht jumped off the machine. At Maysonet's instruction, he squatted down to grab a long metal pole lying flat on the ground."Zucker couldn't do this shit," Licht said through clenched teeth, hoisting the pole with a grunt.
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. It leaves you wondering if Licht actually has a vision or has been handed one by his bosses.Licht trashing his CNN colleagues for the way they reported on COVID.with colleagues and instead stared at his phone the whole time.
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