CNN's Shakeup and the Media's Identity Crisis

Inside the Hive

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🗓️ 9 June 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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The ousting of the CNN CEO Chris Licht on the heels of a damning magazine profile is just the latest symptom of an old order’s waning adroitness across legacy media, digital media, and social media. This week on Inside the Hive, Delia Cai and Hive staff writer Charlotte Klein discuss the prescient Licht profile and what it reveals about media’s larger state of crisis—one where Tucker Carlson has turned to Twitter, once promising players like BuzzFeed News and VICE have failed, and everything just kind of feels like the depressing Succession finale. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	So, Julia, what do you think of Apple Vision Pro, their augmented reality headset?
0:06.1	Oh my god, they look so dumb.
0:09.6	But I also just can't get past the idea of like, oh, you're going to buy these like, like
0:14.3	$3,000, $4,000 goggles so you can like look at PDFs closer to your eyes.
0:21.9	But we thought AirPods, I feel like looked dumb.
0:24.7	That's true.
0:25.7	Remember eating an article that called them like, white pupa, and now I can never forget
0:31.0	that.
0:32.0	I feel like I'm into these glasses when it comes to maybe watching a movie, like once
0:35.7	I was at some fancy dentist office, and I got to watch baby driver on them and it was
0:39.8	incredible.
0:40.8	Wait, why?
0:41.8	What dentist is this that they had like VR goggles?
0:44.2	That's amazing.
0:45.2	I don't go there anymore.
0:46.2	They don't take my insurance.
0:47.2	Of course.
0:48.2	I know.
0:49.2	I guess like the whole point is sort of like, oh, these are the first iteration, like
0:53.5	in a few years, they'll be unimaginably sleek.
0:56.8	They'll probably just be like a pair of sunglasses or something, you know?
0:59.5	And I feel like the draw is like, you've got to get on board now, you know?
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