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CNN Anchor Discloses Breast Cancer Diagnosis

Mediaite reports: CNN anchor Sara Sidner wrapped up the 11 am ET hour of CNN News Central with an emotional announcement, her voice cracking several times as she shared with her viewers that she had been diagnosed with Stage 3 breast cancer. Sidner asked viewers to “take a second to recall the names of eight women who you love and …

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Ramaswamy Chickens Out On Next Primary Debate

The Messenger reports: Vivek Ramaswamy announced on Tuesday that he plans on skipping a CNN Republican primary debate and made a list of grievances he has with the network and some of their employees. Taking a page from former President Donald Trump’s playbook for skipping debates so far, Ramaswamy will hold a competing event to the debate. “Forget [CNN’s] fake …

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Judge Tosses Trump’s “Big Lie” Lawsuit Against CNN

The Hill reports: A federal judge in Florida has thrown out former President Trump’s defamation lawsuit against CNN, in which the former president alleged that the network’s use of the term “the Big Lie” associates him with Hitler. The lawsuit cites five times when CNN commentators and writers used “the Big Lie” to refer to Trump’s false claims that the …

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Trump Lawyer Quits Case: “Irreconcilable Differences”

Politico reports: Former President Donald Trump’s attorney Jim Trusty, who withdrew from representing Trump in a pair of federal criminal probes last week, pulled out of yet another Trump legal matter Friday, citing “irreconcilable differences” with the former president. In a filing with the U.S. District Court of Southern Florida, Trusty indicated his intention to withdraw from Trump’s pending defamation …

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Report: CNN’s CEO Out After Trump Town Hall Debacle

Puck News reports: After a year of leadership missteps, programming misfires, a disastrous Trump town hall and the near-total decimation of staff morale in the wake of a chilling all-access Atlantic story, Chris Licht will be vacating the C.E.O. position. In the next 48 hours, I’m told, Warner Bros. Discovery will announce that Licht will be stepping down as chairman …

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Newsmax Host: “CNN Sold Its Media Soul To The Devil”

“So CNN had five times the audience it usually has, and you would think team CNN and their supporters would be happy about that. Well, apparently not. In fact, Trump’s success has created turmoil inside and outside the walls over the very left-wing news network. “Their own anchors turning on their own network in public. I guess that’s what happens …

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CNN Sees Big Ratings Boost With Trump Town Hall

The Hollywood Reporter reports: Donald Trump’s town hall on CNN Wednesday night came in for harsh criticism on social media, and it also drew a much larger than usual audience to the news channel. Final same-day ratings for the telecast, with the former president being questioned by CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins, have the town hall averaging 3.31 million on-air viewers, …

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CNN Boss Faces Internal Furor Over Trump Town Hall

CNN’s Oliver Darcy writes in his newsletter: While Collins is largely receiving praise for her relentless fact-checking of the former president, she was facing an impossible task. CNN and new network boss Chris Licht are facing a fury of criticism — both internally and externally over the event. How Licht and other CNN executives address the criticism in the coming …

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Michael Fanone: Why Is My Employer CNN Hosting A Town Hall For The Man Who Tried To Get Me Killed?

Michael Fanone writes for Rolling Stone: I woke up last week to a text from my mother. Its contents hit me like a sucker punch. “CNN is hosting a town hall with Trump; Kaitlin Collins is moderating. WTF!!!” Then came confirmation, CNN will in fact host a town hall on Wednesday, May 10, 2023, in primetime. I can already hear …

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Lemon And Carlson Hire Same Lawyer After Firings

The Huffington Post reports: Ousted Fox News host Tucker Carlson and CNN anchor Don Lemon seemed to have had little in common until now: The fallen cable news stars reportedly just hired the same lawyer to navigate their departures. Multiple outlets say Los Angeles attorney Bryan Freedman is representing both. Freedman has facilitated favorable breakup terms for hosts before, including …

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CNN Parts Ways With Morning Anchor Don Lemon

The New York Times reports: Don Lemon is out at CNN. CNN said on Monday that it was parting ways with Mr. Lemon, a star anchor who was a fixture of the network’s prime-time lineup before enduring a short but controversial tenure as a morning show co-host. “CNN and Don have parted ways,” the network said in a statement on …

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CNN Inks Deal To Air Bill Maher Show On Friday Nights

Mediaite reports: CNN will be reaping another benefit of the Warner Bros. Discovery merger next month, when Overtime, the post-show segment from Bill Maher’s HBO program, Real Time With Bill Maher, begins airing on Friday nights. The network made the announcement in a press release Monday, describing it as one of “several other recent partnership between HBO and CNN.” The …

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CNN Hires Kinzinger As Senior Political Commentator

The Chicago Sun-Times reports: Adam Kinzinger has begun his next act after leaving Congress, signing on with CNN as a senior political commentator. The cable news channel announced the hire Wednesday. “Happy to join the team,” Kinzinger tweeted. The former GOP U.S. representative from Illinois’ 16th Congressional District this month wrapped up his 12-year run as a lawmaker and prominent …

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Longtime CNN Reporter Drew Griffin Dies At Age 60

CNN reports: Drew Griffin, CNN’s award-winning Senior Investigative Correspondent, known for getting even the cagiest of interview subjects to engage in a story, died Saturday after a long battle with cancer, his family said. He was 60. A gifted storyteller, Griffin had a well-earned reputation for holding powerful people and institutions accountable. Griffin worked on hundreds of stories and multiple …

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CNN Moves Jake Tapper To Chris Cuomo’s Former Slot

The Daily Beast reports: CNN chief Chris Licht is shaking things up once again. Days after unveiling a “reimagined” morning show, the network announced that anchor Jake Tapper would be moving to primetime to host the 9 p.m. slot through this year’s midterm elections. While the assignment is ostensibly temporary, it could possibly become permanent if Tapper draws a decent …

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BOOK: Trump Threatened To Block AT&T Merger Unless They Sold CNN To Fox News Owner Rupert Murdoch

The Insider reports: Former President Donald Trump and his aides repeatedly tried to persuade AT&T to sell CNN to Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch while also threatening to block the company’s merger with Time Warner, CNN’s parent company, according to a new book. The revelation comes from Peter Baker and Susan Glasser’s “The Divider.” The book said that Trump summoned …

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Veteran Former CNN Anchor Bernard Shaw Dies At 82

Variety reports: Bernard Shaw, who was CNN’s lead anchor for 20 years and distinguished the network’s coverage of such landmark events as the Gulf War, died Wednesday, the Warner Bros. Discovery-backed outlet disclosed. He was 82, and had contracted pneumonia that was not related to the coronavirus pandemic. “Bernie was a CNN original and was our Washington Anchor when we …

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Trump Offers To Help CNN Beat Fox News In Ratings

The Insider reports: Former President Donald Trump tore into Fox News on Sunday, accusing the network of amplifying a Democratic agenda and going harder on Republicans than Democrats. While criticizing Fox News on Sunday, Trump also said that if the network’s cable-news competitor CNN adopted a conservative approach, he would support it. “If ‘low ratings’ CNN ever went Conservative, they …

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Brian Stelter To Depart CNN As Network Drops Show

Deadline reports: CNN is dropping its Sunday show Reliable Sources while its host, Brian Stelter, is exiting the network. A spokesperson for CNN said, “CNN will end its Reliable Sources program on Sunday, August 21st. As a result Brian Stelter will leave the company. We appreciate his contributions to the network and wish him well as he embarks on new …

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Bolton Casually Admits Helping Plan Foreign Coups

The Insider reports: John Bolton, who served in an array of key government roles across multiple Republican administrations, casually told CNN’s Jake Tapper that he’s helped plan coups in other countries. The admission came on Tuesday as Bolton and Tapper discussed former President Donald Trump’s unprecedented effort to overturn the results of a US presidential election. Bolton, who served as …

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