So it's being labeled as "CNN" wanting to exile Jim Acosta’s show to the ‘Siberia of television news’ to stop him annoying Trump? Apparently plotting to exile anchor Jim Acosta longtime antagonist of President-elect Donald Trump to the “Siberia of television news” in a bid to “throw a bone” to the incoming commander-in-chief, according to reports. The network’s boss, Mark Thompson, this week called in Acosta to propose shifting his show, “CNN Newsroom with Jim Acosta,” from 10 a.m. to the graveyard midnight slot, ex-CNN senior media reporter Oliver Darcy reported in his Status News newsletter.
“The move would effectively exile Acosta to the Siberia of television news,” Darcy wrote. Acosta was caught “off guard,” Darcy said with the anchor later using his airtime for some self-promotion to send a message to Trump to go easier on journalists. Well Jim how about this time around you stop lying, and gas lighting b/s rumors created by the liberals? How about actually reporting some non biased news there? “He had no reason to believe that his current show would be on the chopping block. In fact, his ratings have been some of the network’s strongest,” Darcy pointed out.
The move was to accommodate moving veteran anchor Wolf Blitzer from prime time evenings to a morning show when asked by Acosta was told to move to midnight but the claim was it had nothing to do with his 'ratings or editorial style', Darcy said. However, most sources pinned the move on preparations for Trump’s return to office given Acosta’s infamously testy relationship with the previous time Trump was in office who famously branded the anchor “a rude, terrible person.” Knowing his work, and family for many decades folks I can tell you that Jim is, and has always been a very "Rude, A-Hole" but this is just from personal info but as the story goes here it was also claimed “They want to get rid of Acosta to throw a bone to Trump,” an unnamed media executive told the newsletter.
“Midnight is not a serious offer when his ratings are among the best on the network.” Acosta was a CNN White House correspondent during the first Trump administration and had numerous confrontations, leading to him losing his press pass after one petty exchange with the then-president at a 2018 press conference. “CNN should be ashamed of itself having you working for them,” Trump told Acosta at the time. It wasn’t immediately clear if Acosta was considering the midnight show offer. A CNN Spokesperson declined to comment on the reports.
The news emerged, though, as Acosta used his Thursday show to throw shade at Trump and crow about the importance of the media just days out from the inauguration. Like the usual little communist he is. Jim isn't going to stop and CNN if you want to save face it's time you remove these toxic liars, and con artist from your network.
Starting with Jim is a good start.
