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The English Patients

News and notes on the regime change at CNN and the Murdoch baggage following The Washington Post’s presumptive next C.E.O.

Mark Thompson will lewis
The highly anticipated CNN presidential debate offers a rare chance for the beleaguered news network to transcend its slide into irrelevance, if only for a night. Photos: Noam Galai/Getty Images; Mike Coppola/Getty Images
Dylan Byers
November 3, 2023

On Thursday night, CNN alumni Jeff Zucker, Allison Gollust, and Don Lemon joined a small group of friends at The Polo Bar, in Midtown Manhattan, to celebrate the birthday of Jay Sures, the UTA superagent who represents a broad swath of CNN talent, and who recently invited the same trifecta to attend his intimate wedding celebration on a yacht off the Amalfi Coast. Seated across the restaurant, albeit not at his usual table, was Zucker’s successor Chris Licht, who must have thought he was witnessing the manifestation of all his worst, most deeply held suspicions.