“Morale is in the sh—er. People are tired of this. It’s bad.”
The staffer wondered whether Zaslav will continue to insist that CNN move toward the political center as opposed to the adversarial, left-leaning stance it adopted during the Trump presidency.Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav announced Thompson’s hiring on Wednesday.“What is David Zaslav up to? We don’t know the answer to that. There’s like five people on this earth who know the answer to that. The proof will be in the pudding.
“I’d imagine and hope that the changes are less ideological and more programming-related,” the staffer added. After leaving the Times in 2020, Thompson, who was director-general of the British Broadcasting Corporation before relocating stateside, was named to the board of directors of German media conglomerate Axel Springer as well as the Royal Shakespeare Company.