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LetMyPeopleVote

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Sat Jan 18, 2025, 07:01 PM Jan 18

CNN Reportedly Wants To Banish Its Trump Nemesis Anchor To 'Siberia Of Television News'



https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cnn-anchor-trump_n_678a3234e4b088524808328f/amp

CNN anchor Jim Acosta was offered a graveyard shift at the network to banish him to “the Siberia of television news” as Donald Trump returns to the presidency, a former CNN media reporter wrote Thursday.

Acosta, a notable Trump antagonist who had his White House press credential suspended temporarily during the president-elect’s first term, was caught “off guard” by chief executive Mark Thompson’s proposal, Oliver Darcy reported in his “Status” newsletter.

The move from Acosta’s current 10 a.m. Eastern time slot to between midnight and 2 a.m. would accommodate reported changes ahead in the news network’s schedule, according to Darcy. The CNN alum previously reported, along with other outlets, that Wolf Blitzer was moving to mornings as part of a shake-up.

CNN’s average viewership dropped a whopping 49% between Election Day and near the end of 2024, Deadline reported on Dec. 31.

But the “CNN Newsroom With Jim Acosta” star may be contending with other forces as well.

“Sidelining Acosta would also work to curry favor with Donald Trump, who very much despises the CNN anchor,” Darcy wrote.
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CNN Reportedly Wants To Banish Its Trump Nemesis Anchor To 'Siberia Of Television News' (Original Post) LetMyPeopleVote Jan 18 OP
CNN reportedly hiding anchor who dares to call out Trump's BS LetMyPeopleVote Jan 18 #1
He was the only anchor I watched. If he leaves, I'm a forever lost CNN viewer. Sick of the allegorical oracle Jan 18 #2
He should move to msnbc and replace Katy Tur. IcyPeas Jan 18 #3
So CNN is kissing TSF's ass. sheshe2 Jan 18 #4
I posted this yesterday and few here had sympathies about his plight Shellback Squid Jan 18 #5

LetMyPeopleVote

(158,145 posts)
1. CNN reportedly hiding anchor who dares to call out Trump's BS
Sat Jan 18, 2025, 07:05 PM
Jan 18


https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/1/17/2297440/-CNN-reportedly-hiding-anchor-who-dares-to-call-out-Trump-s-BS

CNN reportedly plans to move anchor Jim Acosta, who has frequently fact checked and challenged Donald Trump’s falsehoods, to a time slot with almost no viewers. As Status News reported, CNN’s CEO Mark Thompson proposed that “CNN Newsroom with Jim Acosta” be moved from the 10 AM ET time slot to midnight.

“They want to get rid of Acosta to throw a bone to Trump,” a media executive told Status. “Midnight is not a serious offer when his ratings are among the best on the network.”

If CNN goes through with this plan, it will effectively sideline someone who has provided accurate reporting on the leader of the Republican Party.

Just a few days after his 2017 inauguration, Trump lied about losing the popular vote in the 2016 election to Hillary Clinton due to votes from undocumented immigrants. Acosta noted at the time that the allegation was “a falsehood, full stop.”

Leading up to the 2024 election, when Republicans—led by Trump—continued to push lies about “voter fraud” in the 2020 election, Acosta told the chair of the Georgia Republican Party “you’re just lying” when he repeated Trump’s claims about the race.

allegorical oracle

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2. He was the only anchor I watched. If he leaves, I'm a forever lost CNN viewer. Sick of the
Sat Jan 18, 2025, 07:11 PM
Jan 18

CNN anchors/reporters who lob mostly softball questions while Repug commentators rip Dems, Biden, and Harris to shreds.

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