Jim Acosta leaves CNN

Jim Acosta, the pugnacious, anti-Trump CNN "journalist," has left CNN after being told he'd be relegated to a midnight time slot as part of a network "reshuffle." I have no doubt that this is mainly about money. As a business, you hire people with principles, ideals, and ideologies, but because you're a business, it comes down to money, and if turds like Acosta are losing you money, then you've got to do something about it eventually. (This is, by the way, a lesson that most Hollywood studios, rich as they are, still refuse to learn.)

Headline:

BREAKING: Jim Acosta is OUT at CNN: report

Notorious never-Trump "journalist" Jim Acosta is leaving CNN, according to a new report.

Oliver Darcy's Status News was the first to report the news:

"The anchor, I’m told, signaled to associates in private conversations over the weekend that he intends to depart the network after its chief executive, Mark Thompson, booted him from the morning programming lineup — a move that conspicuously coincided with Donald Trump’s return to power.

"CNN brass, as we first reported earlier this month, decided to strip Acosta of his 10am show, which he has anchored to great ratings success over the last 11 months, at times even seeing higher viewership than programs in the channel’s prime time bloc. Acosta was instead offered the less-than-desirable option of anchoring a show from midnight until 2am ET. CNN pitched the gig to Acosta as anchoring during prime time on the West Coast and said he could move to Los Angeles to host the program. But the reality is the program would have aired at a time in which cable news viewership is at its lowest levels."

As they say: couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.