'Radical changes' at CNN: Layoffs hit 100, network 'similarly' disbands 'Race and Equality' team

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'Radical changes' at CNN: Layoffs hit 100, network 'similarly' disbands 'Race and Equality' team

CNN CEO Mark Thompson “unveiled a sweeping set of changes” on Wednesday, which he described in a memo to employees as a “key milestone in CNN's transformation.”

That's according to the network itself, which reported that Thompson announced “plans to build a billion-dollar digital business, experiment with artificial intelligence and overhaul key newsroom structures.”

CNN reported that the far-reaching measures will result in the layoffs of about 100 employees, or about three percent of the workforce. But the network also “quietly disbanded its 'Race and Equality' team of reporters,” according to the New York Post.

“There were three journalists who made up the unit, which was created by former CNN president Jeff Zucker after the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis in 2020,” the newspaper reported. “One of the reporters was fired while the other two were reassigned to other departments, according to a newsletter written by black reporter Phil Lewis.”

A CNN spokesperson came up with a creative approach to explaining the move.

“For all intents and purposes, the team is no longer a team,” the spokesman said, according to the Post. “They are assigned to different areas so that [their] Perspective and work are built into all of our programming types. It's not a unit like it used to be, though [race and equality] remains his focus.”

The move comes as corporations and universities are slowly abandoning diversity, inclusion and equity (DEI) initiatives, which amount to discrimination against white people. A development carried out almost single-handedly by Christopher Rufo, a senior fellow and director of the Critical Race Theory Initiative at the Manhattan Institute.

“DEI is slowly developing into a system in which all groups receive protection except white Europeans, which in practice means abandoning the much better system of natural and inalienable rights in which all individuals are protected regardless of of ancestry.” Rufo posted in November. “The correct way to conceive of DEI is as a system of racial scapegoating, in which one group is singled out as the scapegoat and denied the full protection of the “state and institutions”.

He also offered this:

CNN viewers accustomed to a hard left leaning weren't too pleased with the latest news:

Meanwhile, some on social media eagerly awaited news that CNN itself would be disbanded — here's a quick sampling of responses to the story, as seen on X:

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'Radical changes' at CNN: Layoffs hit 100, network 'similarly' disbands 'Race and Equality' team
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