Mediaite CNN anchor Jim Acosta ripped President Donald Trump in a defiant on-air farewell announcing his departure from CNN, telling viewers “This is no time to bow down to a tyrant!”
nd his network announced sweeping changes this week — including the likely exile of anchor Jim Acosta in a move seen by some as a capitulation to President Donald Trump — in what Thompson described as a “shift” toward “platforms and products where the audience themselves are shifting.”
The move has been in the works for weeks, and Mediaite has learned from a source with knowledge of Acosta’s thinking that after some “soul searching” Acosta decided to leave the network rather than accept an offer to host a late-night show from Los Angeles.
According to the source, Acosta “didn’t like the message that would send to the journalists” at CNN — and did not want to be “part of anything that kowtows to Trump.”
On Tuesday’s edition of CNN Newsroom With Jim Acosta, the anchor made it official, announcing to viewers at the end of the show that he is leaving CNN — and in addition to calling out Trump, urged viewers to post a modernized Howard Beale-esque message to their social media — “I will not give in to the fear!”:
I just wanted to end today’s show by thanking all of the wonderful people who work behind the scenes at this network.
You may have seen some reports about me and the show, and after giving all of this some careful consideration and weighing in alternative timeslots CNN offered me, I’ve decided to move on. I am grateful to CNN for the nearly 18 years I’ve spent here doing the news…
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