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It\u2019s been quite the season of shake-ups for cable news: Earlier this week, news broke of the departure of CNN CEO\u00a0Chris Licht<\/strong> after one chaotic year on the job\u2014shocking, perhaps, only those who hadn\u2019t yet read the bombshell\u00a0Atlantic<\/em> profile of Licht published just days before. This development, combined with declining ratings and the dismissals of\u00a0Don Lemon<\/strong> and Fox News\u2019\u00a0Tucker Carlson<\/strong>\u00a0back in April, makes it clear that broadcasters are struggling to find their footing in an attention economy where the scale for outrage and urgency has been wholly broken by the Trump and COVID era.\u00a0<\/p>\n But it\u2019s not just a cable news problem, or one limited to legacy media. Across the board, digital and social media brands that have shaped the past decade of discourse have failed to realize their sunnier 2010s-era aspirations. Beloved brands like BuzzFeed News, MTV News, and Vice have recently been shuttered or gone bankrupt. Twitter\u2019s continued decline under\u00a0Elon Musk<\/strong> has prompted a spate of alternatives, like Bluesky, but platforms overall are also finding themselves increasingly under scrutiny (see:\u00a0Montana\u2019s banning of TikTok<\/a> and the surgeon general\u2019s serious warning about\u00a0social media\u2019s impact on kids\u2019 mental health<\/a>). The old order just can\u2019t seem to adjust to the various pressures\u2014and differing realities\u2014of our current era. But is anyone getting it right?<\/p>\n This week on\u00a0Inside the Hive,<\/em>\u00a0Delia Cai<\/strong>\u00a0and Hive staff writer\u00a0Charlotte Klein<\/strong>\u00a0discuss the\u00a0prescient Licht profile<\/a> and what it reveals about media\u2019s larger state of crisis\u2014one in which\u00a0Carlson has turned to Twitter<\/a>, once promising players like\u00a0BuzzFeed News and Vice<\/a> have failed, and everything just kind of feels like the\u00a0depressing\u00a0Succession<\/em> finale<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n