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CNN Grapples With Chris Cuomo Chaos

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Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor“I like being uncomfortable,” Chris Cuomo told Variety in 2018. “I like making other people uncomfortable.” Looks like he succeeded.CNN fired Cuomo, its most-watched anchor, over the weekend for exactly that reason.

Though Cuomo had become emblematic of a new era at CNN, one filled with journalists who practiced holding newsmakers to account rather than just delivering the news, Jeff Zucker, WarnerMedia’s chairman of news and sports, and other executives no longer felt assured about their relationship with the anchor, according to people familiar with the matter.The rupture was a long time coming.

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