CNN anchor Jim Acosta is reportedly threatening to give up the community totally fairly than settle for a transfer to the graveyard shift. The journalist, who presently seems at CNN’s 10 a.m. ET hour, was reportedly pitched a transfer to the “graveyard shift” (midnight to 2 a.m. ET) by CNN Chairman and Chief Government Mark Thompson in a January 15 telephone name.
Acosta has been a fixture on CNN since 2007 however grew to become recognized for his fiery crucial protection because the community’s Chief White Home correspondent throughout President Donald Trump‘s first time period. Now he might be on the outs, in response to a report from The Los Angeles Occasions. The telephone name was first reported by former CNN reporter Oliver Darcy’s Standing publication. Two individuals accustomed to the continued talks confirmed the discussions to LA Occasions. Acosta and a CNN consultant declined to remark for LA Occasions‘ report. One nameless supply informed Fox Information Digital that Acosta is “getting hosed” by the community.
Acosta has reportedly not but made his resolution concerning the provide, however he may keep in his residence of Washington, D.C. if he took the graveyard shift as an alternative of transferring out to Los Angeles. Asking Acosta to maneuver from the morning shift with its larger viewership to the late-night spot that will get much less viewers might be interpreted as a capitulation to the whims of President Trump.
“Acosta is a proficient broadcaster who may deal with any slot on the community,” a CNN staffer informed Fox Information Digital. “The midnight factor is stunning [but] it’s what it’s.”
This wouldn’t be the one stunning schedule change Thompson has carried out in latest weeks. CNN staple Wolf Blitzer and his Scenario Room program is reportedly transferring from its 6-7 p.m. ET night slot to daytime.
Darcy wrote within the unique Standing report that “Thompson, I’m informed, delivered the veteran journalist a sudden and unusual proposal: Transfer your present to midnight and anchor it till 2 a.m. ET,” per Mediaite.com. Acosta was reportedly shocked by the request as “he had no motive to imagine that his present present can be on the chopping block.”
Acosta was allegedly informed that the potential transfer “had nothing to do together with his rankings or the editorial model of his present,” however fairly was part of a plan to rearrange the CNN daytime schedule. Thompson reportedly “pitched the graveyard shift as if it have been one thing of a promotion for Acosta,” Darcy reported.