CNN staff was affected that the exit of the Swift Jim Acosta network, which took place in a few days.
“I think we just stunned how fast it was. It happened at a moment,” one CNN employee said Fox News Digital.
At the end of his daily show on Tuesday, Acosta announced his departure from the net after 18 years.
“You may have seen some reports about me and this show and after you carefully considered it all and weighed the alternative time frame of CNN offered me, I decided to move on,” Acosta told viewers.
Jim Acosta announces that he leaves CNN
CNN -O’s Jim Acosta announced that he was leaving the net during his show on Tuesday. (CNN / screenshot)
The CNN Veterans Star offered a pointed message that included not so rowing shift President Donald Trumpwho he was celebratingly arguing with during Trump’s first term.
“It’s never a good time to worship the tyrant,” Acosta said. “I have always believed that the job of printing was to keep the power of computation. I always tried to do it here on CNN. I plan to do it all in the future.
“One last message – don’t surrender to lies. Don’t deal with fear. Keep yourself truth and hope. Even if you have to pull your phone out, record that message. I will not hand over in a lie.
CNN commentator Ana Navarro took her message to heart, writing on X “I won’t surrender to lies. I won’t surrender to fear. I will not normalize the craziness. I will not neglect the cruelty” before I thank Acosta for his “Integrity.”
“Jim has had a long, prominent nearly 20-year career at CNN, but he has stood on authority, for the first amendment and for our journalistic freedom,” CNN spokesman for his exit said. “We want to thank him for the devotion and dedication he brought to his reporting and wish him the best in the future.”
ACosta announcement It followed after a day of speculation about his future after spending an updated CNN schedule presented last week. The Acosta program at 10 o’clock ET was replaced by “room situation with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown” in the latest redistribution of the network.
Anti-Trump anchor Jim Acosta left a new CNN programming schedule
CNN CEO Mark Thompson allegedly offered Acosta a two-hour groove at midnight, but Acosta eventually decided to go and embark on a new path out of the net, instead of accepting as much of the media industry as much as a significant demonstration.
“Leaving is not unexpected considering reporting. It leaves so fast is what was unexpected,” CNN official told Fox News Digital.
Acosta says he launched an independent show after declining the offer of CNN chief Mark Thompson to move to Midnights. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Despite the deviation that happened among the Liberal Acosta fans after rumors appeared that they had moved it at midnight, CNN Insider suggested that the rest of the network staff would ultimately “pass its days” and not stay on the ACosta’s exit.
“Look, I think people liked Jim. But Cuomo went and CNN moved on. Lemon left, and CNN moved on. People can like it, and people will move on,” Network Insider said, calling to the The controversial exit Chris Cuom in 2021 and Don Lemon 2023.
The second CNN employee called Acosta’s Sandoff “Classy”, which is Fox News Digital “Digital” Dive to him “.
However, former Acosta colleagues are convinced that it was Thompson’s ideological move because of the concern, which made him think it was too much anti-trump to keep the groove at 10 o’clock during Trump’s second term.
“It’s simply the way they see it, as a fact- unlike any discussion about it,” Network Insider said of what CNN staff believes.
“I think there is room for someone like Acosta. I think personality and presence are much important on TV,” Insider continued. “There is room for a stronger voice in the 24-hour network. People have to want to adapt … It’s all art, which sounds stupid, but programming is art, not science.”
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Acosta famously paired with President Trump during Trump’s first term, which many believe that the current CNN leadership prompted him to move him at midnight because Trump’s second term is underway. (Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)
The critics on social media accused CNN of bending the knee Trump’s knee because his second administration is underway.
“Shame you @cnn. Shame on you,” former Congressmen and Occasional CNN Guest Joe Walsh Responded to X. “You have left your duty to consider all public officials responsible. In the White House you have been knocked in Crybaby. Shame you ashamed. And if I ever again on CNN again, I’ll say every word of this.”
“Acosta was a pain in Trump’s side during his first term. Looks like CNN SPIs to the White House,” former Senator Al Franken, D -minn wrote.
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A few hours after CNN’s last broadcast, Acosta debuted on the ceiling and teased that she had arrived “The Jim Acosta Show” soon.
“President Trump and his allies may think you silence me. But guess again,” Acosta told his enemies.
Fox News’ Brian Flood contributed to this report.
