Chris Licht Is in the Hot Seat – but the Real Challenge Is Defining CNN

WaxWord: The question to be answered is not if the cable news chief can keep his job, but whither CNN?

CNN Jake Tapper Jim Acosta Chris Licht Christiane Amanpour Kaitlan Collins Dana Bash
CNN's news team looks to Chris Licht for leadership. (Getty Images)

Sharon Waxman

Sharon Waxman On the Business of Entertainment

The founder and editor of TheWrap’s take on life on the left coast, high culture, low culture and the business of entertainment and media. Waxman writes frequently on the inside doings of Hollywood, and is is also the author of two books, Rebels on the Back Lot and Loot

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The frenzied question of “Will Chris Licht survive?” is on the minds of media pundits everywhere after a devastating, 16,000-word takedown of the CNN chief that ran in The Atlantic magazine on Friday.

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