He is a TV news star: His views are populist, his subtext racist. His advocacy is passionate and his TV audience is vast, despite suspicion that he pursues an agenda above and beyond his own.
04.03.2022 - 04:25 / deadline.com
For the past seven years, Chris Licht’s favorite comic has been Stephen Colbert. As the new chairman of CNN, Licht’s focus has instantly shifted to the brilliant ex-comic from Ukraine named Volodymyr Zelensky, whose heroics are the story of the hour.
“Give CNN one great news story and all my network’s problems will instantly disappear,” Ted Turner, CNN’s founder, once assured me.
The ultimate news junkie, Turner, now 83 and struggling with dementia, surely is mesmerized by the Ukraine drama, both on camera and off. The brutal Russian invasion has not only pulled cable news out of its doldrums but also put the spotlight on the behind-the-scenes chaos playing out at CNN and its rivals. Managements are changing mid-stream and so are their underlying narratives.
The bravery of the cable news reporters and cameramen reminds us of their ability to change history, even as they report it. Also of the turmoil of their corporate parents.
In a management shift unique in its clumsiness, Licht, Colbert’s executive producer, will replace CNN’s abrasive news oligarch Jeff Zucker, and, perhaps inevitably, also some of his talented, if geriatric, anchors.
But that won’t happen until May, when Licht will take his job and also get a new boss in David Zaslav, who becomes CEO of Warner Bros Discovery. Licht has not worked in news for more than six years, but he started in local news. Zaslav, to be sure, has never run either a Hollywood studio or a news channel — but created the Discovery empire and helped invent CNBC and even MSNBC in his younger years.
Because of the laws governing acquisitions, neither has as yet had the opportunity to study the numbers or business plans of CNN, which itself has been investing heavily in its newly planned CNN+
He is a TV news star: His views are populist, his subtext racist. His advocacy is passionate and his TV audience is vast, despite suspicion that he pursues an agenda above and beyond his own.
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“You are looking at live pictures of a fire that has broken out at a Ukrainian nuclear power plant in the town of Enerhohrad after an attack by Russian troops,” said CNN’s Erin Burnett tonight in what could literally be the most explosive story out of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of the Eastern European nation so far
Lord of the Rings character Gollum this week, using the character to criticise the Russian invasion of Ukraine.Appearing on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Serkis was discussing his voice work on The Lord of the Rings. He demonstrated the voice of Gollum and in doing so, criticised Russia’s invasion of Ukraine by taking aim at Russian President Vladimir Putin.It comes after Ukraine severed diplomatic ties with Russia and declared martial law after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an attack on the neighbouring nation last Thursday (February 24).“Gollum was on this side and Sméagol was on this side,” Serkis said in the segment.“And he would say things like, ‘We wants it.
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