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What Could Have Caused This? CNN to Cut as Many as 300 Staffers
CNN to Cut as Many as 300 Staffers in Wake of Plummeting Ratings
May 6, 2019 ~ By Paula Bolyard
CNN is planning to cut up to 300 jobs, "many being older employees with years at the network," according to a report on Monday. According to FTVLive, a website that monitors the television industry, "Word is that just under 200 people will be pink slipped and just over 100 will be offered a buyout." Staffers are reportedly calling the cuts a "massive brain drain" because so many veteran employees are being given pink slips. The reported cuts come just as CNN is moving many of its New York operations and studios from the Time Warner Center to Hudson Yards.
The cuts come on the heels of devastating April ratings for CNN, with the lowest number of total viewers in five years. The network's prime-time lineup plummeted 26 percent in April compared to the same month last year. CNN's total audience in prime time was a pathetic 767,000. Compare that to Fox News, with 2.395 million viewers and third-place MSNBC with 1.660 million. CNN's Cuomo Primetime was one of the hardest hit, with a mere 971,000 viewers in April -- the worst month in the show's history. Sean Hannity, Cuomo's Fox counterpart in the 9 p.m. slot, dominated the ratings with a total audience of 3.086 million. Fox's Tucker Carlson Tonight came in second, with 2.834 million viewers and MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show was third with 2.630 million viewers.
There's no indication that the worst offenders -- Chris Cuomo, Brian Stelter, Manu Raju, Don Lemon, and Jim Acosta -- are going anywhere. Likely it's mostly the behind-the-scenes employees -- who have nothing to do with the network's editorial spin -- slated lose their jobs.
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Bu, bu, but, cut the pay of the goons at the top and those folks can keep their jobs, it's for the children! They can always learn to code, though. Wealth redistribution for thee, but not for me! That seems to be the executive motto at CNN, the DNC, etc.
This is what happens when you are nothing more than a subsidiary of Pravda for over 30 years. This is what happens when you chomp at the Russian bit for over two years and it EXPLODES in your STUPID commie faces. Next up: Federal charges against these seditious freaks of nature.