Chris Licht, the new president of CNN, is continuing his turn away from the network’s prior lean toward liberals in an attempt to remake the network in the wake of its collapse under his predecessor Jeff Zucker.
Licht, 50, has reportedly told his staff to no longer use the phrase ‘the big lie’ to refer to ex-President Donald Trump’s phony claims about fraudulence in the 2020 election results.
The wording is a popular one for the network. According to Mediaite, the phrase has been said 168…