(The Independent)  CNN staffers blast ‘tone deaf’ CEO Mark Thomp son over layoffs as  Jim Acosta mulls move to midnight slot.

About the layoffs, Thompson appears at a loss for words for mere  personal tragedy. We have more consequential fish to fry than his vocabulary. Quoting,

…revealed all of the changes to the channel’s weekday lineup. Besides the new Blitzer and Brown program, which will air for two hours daily beginning at 10 a.m. ET, CNN This Morning will now be a one-hour show hosted by Cornish and air at 6 a.m. ET. Kasie Hunt, who currently helms CNN This Morning, is moving to afternoons to host The Arena…

…Jake Tapper’s The Lead will shift later in the day and air from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. ET. …Rahel Solomon will kick off the network’s weekday morning slate with the 5 a.m. show 5 Things… Kaitlan Collins’ primetime show is also now shifting primarily to Washington, D.C…

They are all extraordinary talent, but this shuffle will actually accelerate the decline. Quoting from Att: David Zaslav; Future of CNN,

…The effect on CNN has been strongly negative, intimately related to the transition of cable news to the phase of decline:

• • Demand for novelty is absent.
  • Retention is based on loyalty.
  • Loyalty abhors change.
  • In consequence, any change Licht could or did make resulted in viewer loss. The transition from maturity to decline is a programming  “game changer.” It rendered Licht’s  prior experience useless.

Quoting The Independent,

…critics wondered if burying Acosta – who the president despises – in late-night was an effort to curry favor with the new administration…Others…weren’t entirely sold…. “Honestly, this place is such a mess,” one CNN on-air personality told The Independent. “I’d actually be relieved if ANY decisions had a rationale behind them. Even one like that.”

Quoting from Intel9.us Up After a 4 Day Outage; Note to CNN & David Zaslav,

CNN, before you upend the lives of hundreds of faithful employees, you should seek both internal and EXTERNAL advice. Positive change can come fast: Though Rome wasn’t built in a day, Mark Zuckerberg wrote the original Facebook in a month.

This sketches the problem: Att David Zaslav; Warner Bros. Discovery signals rapid deterioration of television business, sending stock plummeting.   My telephone hasn’t noted any outreach, so here’s a  freebee. In the space of three weeks, CNN ran three front page stories about pee. Yeah, that stuff. The word actually appeared in the titles. They were placed in the right hand column, intended anodyne to the misery of the left hand column. I felt pissed off. All the years I had faithfully followed the advice, “Don’t eat yellow snow”,, and now this!

After their front page runs, the three P’s had a kind of afterlife, slapped into different layouts with  differing logic, until finally melting away with a swirling gurgle down the drain, a box labeled “search.”

I have lots of ideas but I shall restrict myself here to one bit that doesn’t require elaboration:

***Don’t run yellow snow.***