Anderson Cooper's 'angry' subway selfie leaves fans stunned as speculation grows over CNN staff cuts

Anderson Cooper amazed fans arsenic helium and adjacent person Andy Cohen rode unneurotic connected a New York City subway. 

Cohen shared a selfie of their travel and poked amusive astatine Cooper's scowl arsenic helium was 'not having it connected the A bid tonight', with galore stunned by the cost-cutting transport fixed Cooper's reported $20 cardinal wage astatine CNN. 

'Like you weren't attracting capable attention? You had to instrumentality retired the camera and instrumentality a selfie!' Cooper responded. 

While 1 perceiver said Cooper appeared 'angry' during his uncommon foray into public, others were jealous of the Big Apple residents who recovered themselves successful their presence. 

'I would dice if I was connected the bid and you some hopped on,' a instrumentality said. 

New York City authoritative Merry Rutrick besides ran into the brace connected the subway and shared a selfie with the duo - arsenic Cooper appeared successful amended spirits successful her snap. 

It comes aft it was revealed CNN executives are readying to axe immoderate of their highest paid unit and chopped backmost connected large fund shows. 

The layoffs and cutbacks astatine CNN, archetypal reported by Puck News, travel arsenic web executives are reportedly scrambling to rescue their postulation aft dismal predetermination ratings.  

Longtime anchor Chris Wallace has already departed, and elder stars including Wolf Blitzer and Jake Tapper person some reportedly been denied raises connected their multi-million-dollar salaries. 

While determination is nary notation of who whitethorn beryllium connected the chopping block, Cooper whitethorn beryllium sweating arsenic helium boasts 1 of the highest salaries astatine the web astatine a reported $20 million-a-year. 

According to Puck, CNN volition instrumentality a caller circular of layoffs wrong the adjacent fewer months 'that volition interaction hundreds of employees crossed the organization.' 

Due to mediocre ratings, insiders said the cutbacks volition beryllium much geared toward the accumulation broadside of things. 

This volition mean reporters and correspondents volition beryllium forced to prime up the slack, and volition beryllium expected to 'assume much of the responsibilities erstwhile handled by teams of producers and accumulation assistants.' 

Sources who spoke to newsman Dylan Byers, who worked astatine CNN for 3 years earlier founding Puck, added however the looming layoffs are portion of an overarching program - 1 that puts a premium connected the station's integer platforms.

The antheral down it, they said, is nary different than caller CEO Mark Thompson - the erstwhile New York Times brag brought successful to overhaul the web nether its Warner Bros. Discovery parent.

The aged BBC brag filled the presumption near by then-languishing person Chris Licht this past August, and since then, ratings person fallen much than 20 percent.

Under Licht - a tenure that lasted a small implicit a twelvemonth - the presumption fell from being the most-watched cablegram quality web connected predetermination nights, to 1 of the least.

In 2016, erstwhile it was headed by since-ousted person Jeff Zucker, it was the astir watched web wide - a favoritism that's present held by Fox News.

At the time, CNN had averaged 13.3million viewers successful primetime. Today, it's lone astir 800,000.