ZASLAV DOUBLES DOWN ON CHRIS LICHT CNN 'SUICIDE PACT' - 5.19.23
Countdown with Keith Olbermann
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🗓️ 19 May 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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EPISODE 206: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN
A-Block (1:44): SPECIAL COMMENT: “Republicans are back on the air,” Chris Licht’s boss said yesterday, 24 hours after Christiane Amanpour had politely vivisected Licht in front of all those new Columbia J-School grads.”Republicans weren’t on the air. During the McCarthy hearings, for those four days, we had 75 Republicans on the air. 41 went on us before they went on Fox. And the reason is…they are not going to get one more vote on Fox." And Trump is quote “the front-runner. He has to be on our network. We’re happy he’s coming on our network.”
And after spelling out CNN's new role as an advocacy network Republicans can use to find new votes, David Zaslav then says "advertisers...don't want to be part of an advocacy network,." Zaslav doubles down on his metaphorical suicide pact with Licht as their CNN strategy becomes clear: Increase advertising by decreasing viewership!
Plus the latest from inside the network on CNN In Crisis: Day 10. No retribution planned against Amanpour (yet); talks ongoing with Trump for a second event, maybe a second Town Hall; Erin Burnett and Anderson Cooper have officially fallen into fourth place behind NewsMax; and a new factor in this disaster. A week ago nearly 50% of stockholders voted AGAINST Zaslav's CEO compensation.
B-Block (21:41) POSTSCRIPTS TO THE NEWS: The Republican plan to...defund the Air Force? Dianne Feinstein's health, and the urgency for her to resign, both grow. And Wednesday Marjorie Taylor Scumbag Greene was joking in public with Jamaal Bowman and yesterday she was claiming his body language threatened her and she fell right into the "That Black Man was looking at me." (26:15) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: As we commemorate the anniversary of the Mt. St. Helens volcano, a tribute to the fill-in newscaster who insisted it killed a former president. Elon Musk makes an offer we can't refuse. And Ron DeSantis sure showed Disney! He owned the libs, and the libs now own $1,000,000,000.
C-Block (31:30) FRIDAYS WITH THURBER: Back to the first story of James Thurber I ever read aloud in front of people. Hilarious and deeply disturbing at the same time: "A Box To Hide In."
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| 1:49.7 | Rob Publicans are back on the air. Chris Lick's boss said yesterday 24 hours after Christian Amman |
| 2:01.3 | poor had politely vivisected Chris Lick in front of all those new Columbia J school grads. |
| 2:07.3 | Republicans were on the air during the McCarthy hearings for those four days we had 75 Republicans |
| 2:13.8 | on the air. 41 went on us before they went on Fox and the reason is they are not going to get one |
| 2:21.5 | more vote on Fox and Trump is quote the front runner. He has to be on our network. We're happy he's |
| 2:28.9 | coming on our network. Thus did David Zazlav chairman of Warner Bros Discovery and the man who inflicted |
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