CNN’s Centrist Move Triggers Call to #BoycottCNN: ‘New Corporate Oligarchy’
thewrap.comcalls the “new corporate oligarchy.”“Good morning and Happy Sunday to everyone who agrees that if CNN has consciously decided to push Republican positions, it’s time to #BoycottCNN,” one user tweeted. “I’m watching @MSNBC exclusively now.”Some left-leaning CNN fans have changed their tide on the news organization after speculation that John Malone, Warner Bros.
Discovery shareholder and billionaire media mogul, might have been behind canceling Brian Stelter’s “Reliable Sources.”Many pointed out Malone and his companies’ support of Trump might reflect CNN’s centrist move.
In 2017, Liberty Media Corporation, an organization in which Malone is chairman of the board, contributed “personal and corporate contributions adding up to $1 million” for Trump’s inauguration, according to media watchdog group FAIR.Malone denied the accusation in an email to The New York Times.According to the Times, Malone said he had “nothing to do with” canceling Stelter’s show, saying that he wants “the ‘news’ portion of CNN to be more centrist, but [he is not] in control or directly involved.”CNN did not immediately respond to TheWrap’s request for comment.In his last episode of “Reliable Sources” aired Sunday morning, Stelter discussed Malone’s role in shifting the CNN’s politics with Insider’s Claire Atkinson.“He’s a businessman; he’s looking at where the money is, where the audience is, and the viewership on the left is split between CNN and MSNBC and the viewership on the right is all at Fox News,” Atkinson said.
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