CNN has definitely improved since Licht was ousted.
But their increasing tendency to use "YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENED NEXT" style junk clickbait slideshow type headlines is obnoxious and tawdry.
@RationalLeft: ...who does. While folks used to deride The National Enquirer, now that folks are trying to get clicks and views and income, they're doing exactly what TNE used to do and calling it fair game.
Humanity is generally extremely predictable, and so in life as in the cosmos and maths:
Everything settles to the lowest common denominator and to its most stable inert.
@RationalLeft: Also, Chris Licht was an entire dumbass and parts of several more dumbasses. I don't care if he meant well.
@thedisasterautist I see no evidence that he meant well. He was blatantly sucking up to the worst in American life because he thought it would be better for profits. He was ousted because he was wrong about that and it actually cratered viewership (predictably alienating their regular audience while failing to attract the Fox demo, who are locked into to seeing CNN as the enemy).
@RationalLeft: I don't care if he did or not. He was and still is a dumbass, and he was given a job of helming an international news agency/network because the big boss liked the Stephen Colbert show. I've read a variety of articles, including in The Atlantic (which was especially sharp), and it was just a train wreck from the outset, as was and still is Licht.
@RationalLeft: This was a long-ago predicted effect of the democratization of information, cheap multimedia technology, infotainment, and instant communication. Andy Warhol was right and wrong also. People are getting their fifteen minutes of fame, but most are struggling desperately to even use half of it. Worse, they're relying on it for income and for "realizing their dreams". News orgs used to not pitch so low to get reads/views, but they're competing with, well, everyone in the world...