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'Absolute bullsh*t': Sources shoot down rumors that CNN is planning to fire outspoken...

• https://www.dailymail.co, By ALEX HAMMER

Longtime CNN anchor Jim Acosta was rumored to be next on the chopping block amid the network's purge of woke staff following its $48billion merger with Warner Bros. - however, sources are now claiming that those rumors are false.

The supposed talks concerning the famously woke anchor - who has used his platform to repeatedly pan Donald Trump and competing outlets such as Fox News - surfaced Tuesday, in a series of tweets from journalist Jon Nicosia.

The posts saw Nicosia, a former editor for Mediaite and The Washington Examiner, tease that a 'big name' would be leaving the network in the coming days, according to the word of an unnamed Discovery executive.

Asserting that he had promised to keep the exec's identity a secret until the end of the week, Nicosia on Friday - after much anticipation - identified the staffer as 15-year veteran Acosta, CNN's chief domestic correspondent.

Nicosia's revelation, at the time, seemed, believable - given recent reports that CNN has been working to purge itself of the reputation of being a woke media source since new boss Chris Licht pledged to make the network reliable to the people again by halting the slander of Republicans.

Moreover, 52-year-old Acosta was reportedly seen as 'the main Trump lightning rod' between the 'old' CNN and the new owners' non-partisan aspirations for the network, for his outspokenness against him during his term and clear liberal bias.


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