CNN’s anchors are being told by their recently installed CEO, Mark Thompson, “Take it, or leave it.” The Daily Mail’s Kelly Garino reports:
Thompson reportedly thinks that CNN ‘is over-indexed on politics,’ and has greater interest among its audience for travel and entertainment news.
Other measures in an attempt to cut costs include denying any sort of contract negotiations – no matter how big or popular the name.
Thompson, the former BBC and New York Times boss, has since told some of his highest paid and most notable faces to ‘take it or leave it’, the New York Post reported.
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