And the Good evening. It's Wednesday, June 7th. Welcome to a new episode of

System Update. Our live nightly show that airs every Monday through Friday at

7 PM Eastern exclusively here on

Rumbull the free speech alternative to YouTube. Tonight, CNN's top

executive barely lasted a year on the job. Chris Licht, who was brought in by the most trusted name of news

in the wake of multiple ethical scandals

and collapsing ratings that drove out his predecessor, Jeff Zucker,

was fired today after barely a year in the job.

Most of the corporate press barely disguised their delight over his firing.

One of his primary directives was that the only way to save CNN and find a way to

again attract an audience to watch their shows was to have CNN cease being

little more than a messaging clearinghouse for the Democratic Party.

And nothing enrages corporate media employees

more than the idea that a news outlet should

be independent, rather than held in captivity

to establishment neoliberalism.

One of the few weapons they have left

is ensuring that these large media corporations

remain a dissent-free sector of liberal propaganda,

and Lick explicitly vowed to liberate CNN from that grim task. The reality is that

cable news as a medium is dying anyway and CNN is close to irretrievably dead.

So what hardly matters who captains that rotted ship

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