Brooke Baldwin: At CNN, the Men are in Charge

CNN Anchor Brooke Baldwin is getting ready to leave the network, but she is speaking her wind on the way out the door.

Baldwin was on a podcast for Ms. Magazine and she pointed out that when it comes to CNN, it is clearly a man’s world.

“Let me lift the curtain a little bit,” Baldwin told Michele Goodwin, host of the On The Issues podcast, about her 10-plus years anchoring at CNN. “In that time, you know, the most influential anchors on our network, the highest-paid, are men. My bosses, my executives, are men. The person who oversees CNN Dayside is a man, and my executive producer for 10 years is a man. So I’ve been surrounded by a lot of men.”

“By having women in power, I would argue behind the scenes, not just in front but behind the scenes, that is how you have stories that reflect who they are,” Baldwin said, noting that women are now in charge of CNN Digital and most of domestic newsgathering. “And not only white women. We talk about being intersectional. There is no way we will have progress if a bunch of white women are winning. It’s brown women, Black women, Asian women, it’s across the board. We have to see them reflected in our stories. It’s getting better, but we still have a bit of a ways to go, I think.”

“I want more women in the room,” Baldwin said.

CNN also needs more women on-air in primetime.

Watch CNN from 8 PM till midnight and you will see all the shows are host by men.

It is here that FTVLive also wants to point out, that when election day grew closer, CNN boss Jeff Zucker pulled Baldwin from the air and replaced her with a man.

Jake Tapper hosted Baldwin’s show because Zucker thought that the guy could do a better job.

How F’d up is that?

H/T Mediaite