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In today’s column, the dish on Chris Licht’s inaugural CNN town hall and his fight to exorcize the ghost of Jeff Zucker.

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As I reported earlier this week, Licht intends to manage CNN as a sort of anti-Jeff Zucker: a delegator-in-chief who won’t have the control room perpetually on hold. He has placed himself in a corporate office on the 22nd floor, at a far remove from the newsroom, where Zucker kept his office door wide open. He will not lead the 9 a.m. meeting, where his predecessor set the daily agenda. And, in perhaps the most radical break from the past, Licht will not meddle in day-to-day programming decisions. If he has thoughts, he will send those directly to programming chief Michael Bass, who will then relay them to executive producers.

The whole slightly-removed management philosophy, unusual for a place like CNN (or any news organization for that matter), does seem very aligned with the vibe being projected by Licht’s boss, David Zaslav, the C.E.O. of Warner Bros. Discovery. In short, the parentco has bigger fish to fry than rewriting chyrons or even immediately figuring out a solution for who will fill Chris Cuomo’s still-vacant slot at 9 p.m.—a decision Licht said he won’t make until the fall, after a summer of experimentation...