{"id":577805,"date":"2023-06-08T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/cnn-drama-shows-network-lacks-solution-to-trump-dilemma\/"},"modified":"2023-06-08T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T10:00:00","slug":"cnn-drama-shows-network-lacks-solution-to-trump-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/cnn-drama-shows-network-lacks-solution-to-trump-dilemma\/","title":{"rendered":"#CNN drama shows network lacks solution to Trump dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/06\/AP22111595804598-e1686066330445.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Chris Licht isn\u2019t the whole story.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> of the departure of the CNN chairman and chief executive early Wednesday morning ricocheted around the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> world.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>But the bigger issue is the struggle of CNN in particular, and news organizations in <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>, to find a satisfactory way to deal with former President Trump, eight years after he descended the elevators at Trump Tower to begin running for the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, in a sense, has claimed another scalp with Licht\u2019s departure.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The former \u201cMorning Joe\u201d and \u201cLate Show with Stephen Colbert\u201d showrunner has, like many others, failed to chart a way through the political and media landscape that Trump has created.<\/p>\n<p>A 15,000-word story on Licht that <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>eared in the Atlantic last week may have been the final straw in the executive\u2019s brief but tumultuous reign atop CNN. But the far more serious misfire was the disastrous town hall the network hosted with Trump on May 10.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the estimation of just about everyone, the way the town hall was produced \u2014 in front of a crowd specifically engineered to be sympathetic to the former president \u2014 set CNN and its moderator, Kaitlan Collins, up for failure.<\/p>\n<p>CNN\u2019s own Oliver Darcy wrote within hours of that event that it was \u201chard to see how America was served by the spectacle of lies that aired on CNN Wednesday evening.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Many at the network and beyond agreed with him \u2014 even if his assessment drew Licht\u2019s ire.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the town hall was, in a sense, an overcorrection. It was the most high-profile example of an effort by Licht to reverse away from CNN\u2019s coverage of Trump during the tenure of his predecessor, Jeff Zucker \u2014 coverage that had won ratings but had also grown to seem troll-ish and petty at times.<\/p>\n<p>By all accounts, Licht and his boss, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav, were seeking to reposition CNN closer to the center ground it had once occupied.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Yet, as\u00a0ratings\u00a0and morale have declined, there remains a question as to whether that ground even exists in any meaningful way \u2014 especially while Trump, the most polarizing president in living memory, is a key player on the political scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Comparing the current landscape to the pre-Trump era, Todd Belt, a professor and the director of the political management program at George Washington University, told this column, \u201cThe news audience is different now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause people have their preconceived\u00a0notions\u00a0of Donald Trump, oftentimes they are looking for information confirming what they already believe about him,\u201d Belt added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cI think CNN is still trying to figure out where they fit in there and how they can generate an audience that will rival Fox. [Fox\u2019s] formula is pretty easy, and we heard\u00a0a lot about that\u00a0during the Dominion case.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Belt was referencing internal emails revealed during legal action taken against Fox News by Dominion Voting Systems, which claimed it had been defamed by the network.<\/p>\n<p>Those emails showed some prominent figures at Fox fretting about dropping ratings in the wake of the 2020 election \u2014 a phenomenon they blamed on figures at the network who correctly stood up against Trump\u2019s false claims of fraud.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>The Dominion case was settled by Fox for $787 million, though Fox was not required to issue an apology and admitted only to acknowledging \u201cthe Court\u2019s rulings finding certain claims about Dominion to be false.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CNN\u2019s troubles, however, are of a whole different kind.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>News of Licht\u2019s abrupt departure has prompted a new round of soul-searching about the future of the network and of cable news itself.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr6_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Semafor\u2019s Ben Smith contended that the central problem is an ongoing, and apparently irrevocable, decline in cable news as a medium.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCheap talk about shifting CNN from anti-Trump confrontation toward an imagined center simply didn\u2019t find an audience,\u201d Smith wrote Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd the most obvious explanation is the one that people in media have been saying so long we\u2019ve stopped believing it: Cable news is in a broad, secular decline. Even the best managers and executives won\u2019t be able to reverse that.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr7_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Vox\u2019s Peter Kafka likewise contended that there was not, really, any chance of success in the kind of news coverage Zaslav and Licht purported to want.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome people will turn to CNN or other cable TV channels in times of crisis or something truly extraordinary. But even that\u2019s a habit specific to people who\u2019ve grown up with TV, a number that\u2019s shrinking all the time,\u201d he wrote.\u00a0\u201cThere\u2019s no cheering section for \u2018neutrality,\u2019 despite what media executives and some journalists may insist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For now, a transitional leadership team will try to put the pieces of CNN back together. But they face an extraordinarily difficult task in trying to map out the course ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Grant Reeher, a professor of political <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a> at Syracuse University, pointed to one of the fundamental problems in covering Trump, specifically.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have people who just assume he\u2019s not telling the truth. And then you have people who just believe him \u2014 and they\u2019re not going to disbelieve him just because The Hill or ABC or anyone else fact-checks him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In terms of the bigger picture, Reeher said that all media organizations, including CNN, face a steep climb if they have any chance of recovering the position of authority they once held.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the abstract, it\u2019s not impossible,\u201d he said. \u201cPolarization makes it harder but not impossible. But when the media outlets themselves have been sucked into the polarization, it becomes well-nigh impossible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Memo is a reported column by Niall Stanage.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Nexstar Media Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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