Why Fox News-loving billionaire John Malone wants to remake CNN

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Why Fox News-loving billionaire John Malone wants to remake CNN

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Why Fox News-loving billionaire John Malone wants to remake CNN
CNN is in flux. It has a new owner, and a new boss, who promises to remake the news channel and has told employees to be prepared for “a time of change.”

Most of those changes have yet to manifest. But one of the first ones — canceling its long-running Reliable Sources show and pushing out anchor Brian Stelter — has already unsettled some CNN employees and viewers.

But the bigger question floating over one of the world’s largest and most important news organizations is why it’s changing. Is it because the CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, its new owner, wants an overhaul? Or is it at the behest of a conservative billionaire investor in the company who sits on its board?

That billionaire is John Malone, a legend in the cable TV business and one who has deep and longstanding ties with David Zaslav, the CEO of WBD. People close to both men insist that Zaslav is remaking CNN because he wants to for both business and editorial reasons, and not because Malone has told him to.

Read more: https://www.vox.com/2022/8/26/23322761/ ... fka-column



I dont see how we survive this stuff, it keeps happening.
I sigh in your general direction.
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