CNN to Blow Up Woke, Failing Morning Show With Angry Lady
Following the firing of Brian Stelter, CNN CEO Chris Licht plans to take the same ax to the morning show. Licht and his team will blow up "New Day," as first reported by Confider. This means co-hosts John Berman and Angry Morning Lady Brianna Keilar could either move to a lesser role or join Stelter and Jeffrey Toobin as former employees. Forget Berman. Keilar is the most loathsome character at the network. Being a morning show host requires some sense of enjoyment -- she has none. Even CNN viewers don't want to wake up to a miserable face every morning. Some mornings are fine.
Michael Smerconish aren't the answers. Ideally, CNN would bring in a younger, on-the-rise broadcaster for the program. Say Whit Johnson or Tom Llamas. But both hosts are under contract with ABC and NBC, respectively. Alas, there ought to be skepticism that Licht can turn "New Day" into the success story he hopes, even after he boots Angry Morning Lady