CNN -anchor Jim Acosta reportedly leaves the network after he was officially removed from his programming schedule.
The status newsletter reported on Monday that Acosta was expected to leave CNN after it was announced last week that his 10 am et program was replaced by “The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown” in the newest repeat of the network.
The newsletter previously reported that Acosta was thrown by CNN CEO Mark Thompson to move him from his end of an hour at 10 am to a two-hour slot from midnight, a much less prominent place in the line-up.
A CNN insider told Fox News Digital They heard acosta “struggled with the choice” and can therefore short caps.
“It takes courage,” said the CNN insider.
Another CNN insider was relieved by the exit of Acosta and said: “Many viewers like Jim … If there is anyone who could let the overnight go, he is,” adding “it is sad to see him to go.”
A spokesperson for CNN refused to comment.
Anti-Trump-anchor Jim Acosta Left off new CNN programming schedule
Jim Acosta is said to leave CNN after he was omitted from the new programming schedule of the network. (Reuters/Carlos Barria)
Acosta became more generally known as CNN’s most important White House correspondent for his antagonistic relationship with President Donald Trump and his assistants during the first Trump government. After the 2020 elections, Acosta’s status at CNN was moved to the most important domestic correspondent, which anchored a show on the weekend, but eventually programming his way to weekday.
While the past leadership of CNN enjoyed Acosta’s constant sparring competitions with the first Trump administration, the current leadership of the network seems to try to present his programming as neutral for the second run.
Jim Acosta from CNN became a regular competition on the late night circuit during the first Trump administration, a rarity for a reporter from the White House in earlier presidencies. (Randy Holmes via Getty images))
Acosta came to CNN for the first time in 2007, where he treated political campaigns and eventually the Obama and Trump White Houses. He soon became notorious because he shouted questions with the press secretaries of Trump’s White House and often went to Teen with the president himself, one Reputation for grand And receiving a profile boost by Trump after he was called ‘fake news’.
Acosta refused famous to give up the microphone in a 2018 press conference, because he held a controversial back and forth with Trump. The White House tried to withdraw Acosta’s perspas After the dust-up, but his references were recovered when CNN argued that it violated the rights of Acosta and the network the first and fifth amendment rights.
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Jim Acosta of CNN refused famous to give up the microphone while he peppered President Donald Trump with questions during a 2018 press conference. (Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)
Acosta’s opponents with the first Trump administration seemed to be lucrative when he got himself a book deal and became a guest about liberal shows late in the evening, which further fed the star force that highlighted an anchor chair during the Biden presidency. He recently told the viewers that the press “is not the enemy of the people” in a shot on Trump.
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Brian Flood from Fox News has contributed to this report.
