Chris Licht Shoots Back

Chris Licht lasted as the boss of CNN for a very short period.

CNN was tumbling when Licht got there, tumbled while he was there, and CNN continues to tumble after he left.

Licht spoke to Yahoo Finance, and he asked what the problem is with CNN and others. “The facts are that people have lost trust in legacy media,” he told Yahoo Finance. “That's not me saying that, that's a demonstrable fact that has not happened in the last six months. That is something that's been happening for a long time and people are tuning out.”

He added, “We used to have one set of facts and then you could have 30 discussions around that set of facts. Now you have 30 sets of facts and a thousand discussions around those sets of facts. And that has to change or we're in big trouble as a society.”

Getting the viewers to trust Journalists again is going to be a long hard slog, but we know that what the media is currently doing is not working.