New CNN Boss Is Quitting Twitter: ‘It Can Skew What’s Really Important’
thewrap.comabout to take over Jeff Zucker’s old role as head of CNN. Though Twitter has long become the go-to for journalists both absorbing and distributing information, the new honcho at one of the nation’s top outlets seems to believe the echo-chamber nature of the platform has become too much of a downside to carry on.“May 2 will be my first official day in the office at CNN & my last day on Twitter,” he tweeted Monday morning. “Twitter can be a great journalistic tool, but it can also skew what’s really important in the world.
I’m logging off & looking forward to working with the incredible team at CNN.”May 2 will be my first official day in the office at CNN & my last day on Twitter.
Twitter can be a great journalistic tool, but it can also skew what's really important in the world. I’m logging off & looking forward to working with the incredible team at CNN.If he makes good on his promise, Licht — who most recently ran “Late Night With Stephen Colbert” before taking over for Zucker — will leave behind 26.9K followers, 2,700+ tweets, and tens of thousands of exclamation points.Licht announced his Twitter retirement while Elon Musk is in the middle of a bid to buy the social media giant, made less likely when the platform adopted a poison-pill strategy to avoid hostile takeover.
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