Stunning warning CNN boss gave to stars the day before Trump inauguration

CNN boss Mark Thompson warned the network's stars to refrain from bashing Donald Trump and bringing up the past during his inauguration connected Monday, according to a caller report.

In an editorial gathering attended by the network's biggest names, including Anderson Cooper and Jake Tapper, Thompson urged the journalists to support their biases to themselves.

Thompson told the journalists helium wanted them 'to beryllium forward-thinking and to debar pre-judging Trump' and cautioned them against 'expressing immoderate outrage of their own,' arsenic reported by the Status newsletter. 

The network's CNN besides 'made it wide that helium did not privation the sum to relitigate the past' - meaning helium did not privation the sum to absorption connected Trump's felony convictions, his impeachments oregon relation successful the January 6 riots.

Instead, Thompson instructed his unit to support an unfastened caput and absorption connected Trump's 2nd term.

As Status notes, the CNN journalists mostly followed Thompson's editorial enactment connected inauguration day, not mentioning the information that Trump is the archetypal convicted felon to triumph the White House oregon that helium was impeached for his relation successful inciting an attempted insurrection. 

The gathering was meant to acceptable the code for the network's attraction of Trump's 2nd term, arsenic CNN wants to screen it successful a starkly antithetic mode than they did it the archetypal clip around. 

CNN's erstwhile brag Jeff Zucker established a much assertive editorial enactment against Trump, focusing connected calling him retired for lies and corruption. During Trump's archetypal term, the network's stars often expressed their ain indignation astatine the sitting president.

The time aft the inauguration, Thompson reminded his unit to stay 'fair-minded' portion besides staying 'tough-minded.' 

Thompson was appointed CNN main successful 2023 after stints astatine The New York Times and BBC to effort to prevention the struggling network's aft its code against Trump saw its viewership diminution implicit the past 8 years.

CNN's dropping numbers person caused unit to go 'scared and frustrated' astir looming layoffs.

Stars including Jake Tapper and Wolf Blitzer person reportedly been denied raises connected their multi-million-dollar salaries arsenic the biggest names connected the web fearfulness for their futures.

Back successful November, Thomson besides hosted an all-hands gathering to acceptable the docket for the 2nd Trump era.

Thompson reminded unit that determination are 'a batch of different stories retired successful the U.S. and astir the world' and 'it was wide that audiences were sick of the mode the media covers politics' according to Puck. 

He besides said helium wanted to get much 'people we don't usually perceive connected CNN' - possibly alluding to much right-wing pundits similar Scott Jennings. 

A captious demographic for web quality channels are those aged 25 to 54, and connected Tuesday - a week aft the 2024 statesmanlike predetermination - CNN averaged 61,000 viewers successful that range.

It was the smallest of assemblage viewers successful that demographic since June 27, 2000, erstwhile Bill Clinton was successful the White House.

It besides pulled successful atrocious numbers for its daytime programming - shows that tally betwixt 9 americium and 5 p.m. - with an mean 60,000 viewers successful the demographic connected Tuesday.

This was the worst for a non-holiday week since 2014, according to Fox News.