Chris LICHT: "slams 'stunning' left-wing 'vitriol' aimed at him"
When he went from being COLBERT's (Executive?) producer to CNN, some of us/uninformed imagined CNN would be sort of safe, perhaps via having osmosis-swallowed the facile stereotype that it had a Lib slant instead of being down-the-middle, not to mention our assuming that COLBERT is a Lib spokesperson. Then it transpired that the oligarchic new owners (Repuke donors) installed him to make it into Faux-Lite, and indeed he set upon "changes" of firing hosts and reporters who seemed Lib and issued dicta against language and framing that could be construed as Lib.
But the big reveal was that, COLBERT was not his incubator, but rather his being the early producer for SCARBOROUGH in Scabs' vociferous wingnut days, with OLBERMANN informing that LICHT was Scabs' hatchet man, bullying the MSNBC timid boss into getting Lib guests blackballed from Lib hosts' shows, under the threat that Scabs would not show up for work if the purges didn't happen.
And a month or so ago COLBERT told Charlemagne tha God that LICHT is misunderstood, has "only the best of intentions."
By the bye, COLBERT is the best and around here MAHER is dirt, but there are YouTubes of MAHER saying he *hates* COLBERT ("gives the corporate machine what it wants" ) and MAHER guesting on COLBERT with the mutual hostility thick enough to cut, with MAHER telling him, "You probably voted for NIXON", which COLBERT sat through without replying.
*** But in today's LICHT item (original from NYT/paywall), confusion (for me) - so besides making CNN more "hard news," he was hired "to tamp down anti-Trump/left-leaning" but he sees it to be Centrist as "normal" but not "vanilla" and with an "edge." And, reminiscent of MUSK, he wants us to take with us to have conversations but criticizing HIM is "vitriol". He sounds arrogant, like how dare anybody question him who is On High.
That's how some media types sound, like, it's THEIR place to talk down about the news and opinions, how dare us Keyboard Jockeys dare to have access to news that doesn't come from their mouths and dare to consider ourselves equal and most of all to TALK BACK to them? They don't get that Al GORE's internet means INTERACTION, not Moses on the mountain.
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https://nypost.com/2022/12/18/cnn-boss-chris-licht-slams-left-wing-vitriol-aimed-at-him/
.... Licht was tasked with bringing CNN back to its hard-news roots, to tamp down on anti-Trump, left-leaning punditry, and to cut costs.
He told the Times he thinks of people in the political center as “normal” — but insists appealing to “normal” people doesn’t mean the content should be boring.
“The uninformed vitriol, especially from the left, has been stunning,” Licht, who took over the cable network in May, told The New York Times. “Which proves my point: So much of what passes for news is name-calling, half-truths and desperation.” ....
He told the Times he wants the network to be a place for “rational conversation about polarizing issues.” ....
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that says that & he's a Gaslit Whiner and way to Lose viewers. 
with well-vetted hard news stories that aim at informing people rather than inflaming them.
And to aim for high standards of journalism, instead of bloviating and punditry.
He must be a fascist!
So kindly sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up and stop playing the victim card. You brought this on yourself. No one should be catering to neo Nazis and far right conspiracy theorists. 
"news for normal people".
Died of cancer, at 60, per Yahoo news. 
is total bullshit.
In fact, Licht was hired by Discovery Warner CEO David Zaslav who is a Democrat with a history of donating to Democrats.
Saying Licht was hired "to tamp down anti-Trump/left-leaning" news coverage is "quoting" the very-low-credibility right-wing tabloid the NY Post, who invented this particular lie. Do we have rules about spreading right-wing bullshit?
That is NOT why Licht was hired and he's always called out these sorts of lies as "bullshit."
Yet the right-wing originated conspiracy somehow has "legs" here on DU, despite it being totally and utterly false.
Not a good look.
