Dear Friend,

CNN is strongly denying that it’s trying to be the new Fox "News," but the
change is so obvious that even Trump sees it.

[ [link removed] ]CNN has slowly been turning into Fox "News" over the last couple of
months. Now it’s time to start taking action and send CNN a message
they’ll actually understand: fewer viewers. Sign on to our campaign to
dump CNN now.

Let’s break down what’s happening at CNN.

Since the recent Discovery-Warner Bros. merger, a lot has changed at CNN.
The leading shareholder in Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. is billionaire
John Malone, who donated $250,000 to Trump’s inauguration, is on the board
of the Charles Koch-funded Cato Institute, and previously held 32% of the
shares of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation.

In an interview with CNBC, Malone said Fox "News" has “actual journalism”
and CNN should be more like it: “more centrist.”(1)

Actual journalism? Has he ever seen Fox "News"?

Now new CNN president, Chris Licht, has discouraged staff from using “the
Big Lie” to refer to former President Donald Trump’s false claims about
the 2020 election.(2) He wants to be less “partisan and alarmist”, and
went on a so-called “Capitol Hill diplomacy tour” to meet with House
Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy to recruit Republican members of Congress
to appear on the network.(3,4)

After canceling Brian Stelter’s Sunday CNN show, Reliable Sources, which
has featured intelligent criticism of Fox "News," right-wing media,
Trumpism, and the increasingly authoritarian lurch of the Republican
Party, Licht told staff, "There will be more changes and you might not
understand it or like it."(5)

[ [link removed] ]Sign on to the campaign to dump CNN and make it clear: there’s no
centrist path with violent right-wing extremists.

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It’s not just who Licht has fired -- it’s also who he’s hired.

CNN has announced that John Miller will be the network’s new chief
law-enforcement and intelligence analyst.

The former New York Police Department deputy commissioner of intelligence
and counterterrorism is an extremely polarizing figure who made headlines
in March when he testified to the New York City Council that the NYPD did
not, in his opinion, inappropriately spy on Muslims after the September 11
attacks despite the department having settled numerous lawsuits related to
the illegal spying.(6)

We can’t let the media poison the narrative with right-wing lies and
disinformation. There’s no middle ground in the fight to save American
democracy.

Thank you for taking action today.

–Irene, along with Amber, Angela, Annie, Isidra, Jay, Lindsay, LisaMarie,
Mai, Mai, Raquel, and Scottie (the Courage team) 

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