Staffers’ confidence is shaken. The CEO is vowing to “fight like hell to win back their trust.”
. He didn’t interview anyone else for the job, a fact that insulted Zucker’s lieutenants but signaled that Zaslav thought a total overhaul was necessary.
If I sound sympathetic towards Licht, that’s because I was. Many CNN employees felt the same way. Everyone could tell that he was carrying out someone else’s orders. But the goodwill dried up quickly because, in the words of a Licht confidant, “He was dealt a bad hand, and then he played it badly.” That’s the story Tim Alberta told inAlberta rightly hit on Licht’s office location as a metaphor for the exec’s missteps.
Let me take a step back. When Alberta first asked to shadow Licht and write about the “gut renovation” of CNN, there was reason to believe that the resulting piece would be positive. It was mid-June of last year, and Licht was promising to roll out programming “that questions the status quo, shatters groupthink, holds our leaders on both sides of the aisle accountable to facts and fights fearlessly to get to the truth.
Licht’s allies point out that he faced very real challenges from the get-go, including constant leaks to the press. CNBC reporter Alex Sherman astutely
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