CNN’s Chris Licht on 2024: “We Are Not Going to Be a 24/7 Trump News Network”

The age-old media industry question—how to cover presidential candidate Donald Trump—has become more complicated. It’s not clear any outlet has perfected the formula to cover a twice-impeached, insurrection-inciting, 2020 election-denying, subject of several state and federal investigations running for a second term in the White House. But CNN CEO Chris Licht says he does know what not to do: repeat CNN’s coverage circa 2016. “We have fact-checkers ready to go. We will put things in perspective. We will not let everything [Trump] does consume the news cycle, right? There are other things that are important,” Licht told Kara Swisher, on… Read Full Article