Big Names Rumored To Be On CNN’s “Chopping Block”…Here’s The List

As ratings flounder, big changes are on the way at CNN.

New company CEO Mark Thompson is known for his ruthlessness. Reportedly, he is prepared to take some radical moves to try to resurrect the network.

According to insiders, that includes letting go of some of CNN’s biggest “talent.”

Names on CNN’s rumored “chopping block” include:

• • Anderson Cooper
  • Chris Wallace
  • Wolf Blitzer
  • Jake Tapper

BREAKING: Chris Wallace, Anderson Cooper, and Jake Tapper are allegedly on the ‘chopping block’ at CNN.

— Leading Report (@LeadingReport) March 2, 2024

No matter how much CNN wants to cling to their delusional ideologies, in the end, it all boils down to money.

Network insiders say that the big-name “stars” over at CNN are simply costing the company too much, with their million-dollar salaries.

Most of the major CNN hosts have contracts that will not expire until after the presidential election this November — but after that, they could get the axe!

InTouch originally reported:

Big-bucks talent will become history at CNN as the spiraling network’s new honcho slashes budgets and takes aim at anxious anchors with oversized salaries, insiders say.

New CEO Mark Thompson is preparing ruthless cuts to remake the network as ratings plunge — leaving Anderson Cooper, Chris Wallace, Wolf Blitzer and Jake Tapper facing dates with the axman, a source says.

“Anderson knows he’s on the chopping block because he makes a whopping $20 million a year. He’s already started looking for a new gig!” a network insider exclusively tells In Touch. “Chris Wallace takes $8 million and figures he’s a likely target, too!”

Insiders say other network favorites — including $15 million man Blitzer and $8 million gent Tapper – are also bracing for the boot!

“Everybody knows the focus is on cutting costs,” the insider continues. “No one is safe!”

Contracts for most of the heavy hitters — including Cooper and Tapper — won’t expire until after the November election, but insiders say that after that, all bets are off!

Over the last several years, viewership of once-popular CNN network has plummeted drastically.

In January 2024, The New York Post reported that CNN’s ratings fell behind not only Fox News and MSNBC, but channels like Hallmark, The History Channel, and even an obscure Christian evangelism channel:

The “most trusted name in news” — which recently hired former New York Times and BBC boss Mark Thompson as its CEO — had an average of 538,000 nightly viewers in the 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. block during the seven-day period from Jan. 15 until Jan. 21, according to the most recent data compiled by Nielsen.

The weak ratings were generated despite coverage of the Iowa caucus, which saw former President Donald Trump easily rout GOP contenders in his bid to regain the White House.

CNN not only finished behind rivals Fox and MSNBC, but was the 10th most-watched channel on cable, getting beat by Hallmark, The History Channel and INSP, a South Carolina-based channel founded in the late 1970s by the Christian televangelists.

Now, even if CNN’s viewership ratings weren’t total garbage, is there any real reason to pay the network’s big-wigs like Anderson Cooper upwards of $20 million?

For doing what?

Reading a teleprompter? Throwing low-balls at President Trump?

It seems to me like just about anyone could be hired to do that. You don’t need a network “celebrity” to report on fake news with a left-wing bias…

Breitbart added some additional insight:

CNN pays Anderson Cooper $20 million, which works out to about $40 a viewer. Chris Wallace and Tapper make $8 million. Wolf Blitzer — this guy! — makes $15 million. For what? I’ll tell you for what: for nothing, for this…

Throughout all of February, CNN averaged only 479,000 total day viewers and 573,000 primetime viewers. Fox News earned almost four times as many primetime viewers as CNN, while MSNBC earned a little over twice as many.

Fox & Friends Sunday earned more total viewers (1.12 million) than CNN’s highest-rated show in February, Erin Burnett Tonight’s pathetic 743,000.

These CNN idiots are paying Anderson Cooper $20 million to attract 741,000 viewers, Tapper $8 million to attract 717,000 viewers, and Wolf Blitzer $15 million to attract fewer than 700,000 viewers. Who the hell knows what CNN pays Chris Wallace $8 million for.

To normal people, that is stark-raving insane, but normal people don’t run CNN.

Wolf Blitzer, Jake Tapper, and Anderson Cooper are not paid all that money because their shows are profitable, or because they have an audience, or because they break Big Stories… They are paid all that money because they do what the FBI, CIA, and Democrat Party tell them to do.

In a sane world, of course, you would fire those liars and hire a Megyn Kelly. All on her own, Kelly’s attracted 1.7 million YouTube fans. That’s a base. That’s an audience. That’s hiring someone based on merit.

If CEO Thompson is indeed looking for talent online at those who have what no one at CNN does — an audience — that’s pretty damn smart and the only hope CNN has.

As I have said a hundred times… CNN’s problem is not its left-wing politics and lying. MSNBC does the same and attracts a much bigger audience. No, the problem at CNN is that its anchor lineup is, without question, the most unappealing, humorless, smug, and charisma-free group of people ever assembled on TV.

But, perhaps this will signal a turn-around for the company.

What do you think? Will CNN become a more honest network underneath their new CEO?

I highly doubt it…but, let us know your thoughts on this in the comments!