CNN Reportedly Considering Exiling Jim Acosta's Show To Midnight 'To Throw a Bone To Trump'

[highplainsdem]

Source: Mediaite

Former CNN senior media reporter Oliver Darcy reported in his Status newsletter on Thursday that Acosta “received a peculiar telephone call from CNN chief Mark Thompson” the night before.

“Thompson, I’m told, delivered the veteran journalist a sudden and strange proposal: Move your show to midnight and anchor it until 2am ET,” reported Darcy, who claimed Acosta was caught “off guard” by the proposal as “he had no reason to believe that his current show would be on the chopping block.”

Acosta was reportedly told that the lineup change “had nothing to do with his ratings or the editorial style of his show,” but would be necessary logistically to accommodate a new morning schedule.

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Darcy questioned the purpose of the change, noting that Acosta had some of the stronger ratings at CNN, and that a 12 a.m. time slot “occupied by virtually zero other hosts in the cable news business” would “effectively exile Acosta to the Siberia of television news.”

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Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/tv/cnn-reportedly-considering-exiling-jim-acostas-show-to-midnight-to-throw-a-bone-to-trump/

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According to the Daily Beast - https://www.thedailybeast.com/cnn-plots-to-bury-the-anchor-trump-hates-most/ - Acosta is seriously considering the offer.

Acosta was told that the move was about accommodating the logistics of Blitzer’s new schedule and not about his ratings or editorial style. Thompson reportedly told Acosta that the 12 a.m. ET time slot would mean his show would air during prime time hours on the West Coast and be simulcast internationally.

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Acosta is reportedly seriously considering the midnight slot offer.

[tulipsandroses]

1. How does this help CNN? They already have shitty ratings

Makes no sense

[carpetbagger]

4. Warner Brothers is bigger than CNN.

I'm sure they have regulatory and other matters before the government that are worth ditching a very small number of CNN viewers.

[thebigidea]

2. what pathetic chumps. Acosta has given 100% from day one

Trump won't give them a damn thing for this concession, he'll still attack them as fake news and treat their employees with contempt.

Absolutely pathetic.

Not surprised that Acosta immediately told a journalist about it.

[Mawspam2]

3. Take the slot, but demand a raise.

Meanwhile, start a podcast / substack / write books, cuz you know that won't last.

Hope the Comcast spin off of (whatever the rebranded MSNBC is called) works out.

[Shellback Squid]

5. then I will stick with MSNBC exclusively (except for Andrea Greenspan) Blitzer sucks,

seriously, he stopped being relevant 20 years ago

[Deuxcents]

6. Acosta is a better reporter than most on CNN. I hope he has the backbone to refuse to be sent to Death Valley

Because the felon wants it.

[DJ Synikus Makisimus]

7. Isn't Trump up and rage tweeting at that hour?

Just sayin'.

[JMCKUSICK]

8. I hope he takes it on the condition

That he has editorial freedom and then goes to town on trump

[Javaman]

9. if this were 30 years ago, this might have had the effect they indent, but now...

not so much.

I never watch him live. I always watch him on youtube the next day.

[tanyev]

10. And then Trump will demand more.

There are not enough bones, steaks or entire cows to ever shut him up. Standing up to the bully is the only way out.

[Bengus81]

11. Need to tell that to Newsom. Kowtowing to Trump over a flag will get him NOTHING in return

I though he was a lot smarter than that.......

[Bengus81]

12. Everyone LINING UP to be the next Neville Chamberlain?? My GAWD!!

[mahina]

13. Horrible. He is intending to exile truth. Acosta deserves so much better!

[Fla Dem]

14. So I guess a Trump approved anchor will be taking Acosta's time slot?