Chris Licht, the chairman and chief executive of CNN, has spent his early tenure at the network wielding a fine chisel. For four and a half months, he has chipped away at the edges of Jeff Zucker’s former news network— taming chyrons, discouraging sanctimony, unceremoniously ousting Brian Stelter, and allowing the departure of John Harwood and Jeff Toobin types—all in the service of refashioning CNN as a less polarizing, semi-bipartisan network that might ostensibly appeal to a broader swath of what remains of the television news-consuming public. Licht gets pissed when people assume he is following the indirect orders of cable pioneer and Warner Bros. Discovery board member, John Malone. But he is, at the very least, executing a Malonian strategy.