Trump critic Jim Acosta revealed his next step after leaving CNN

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After CNN sign with After rejection of the network’s proposal for the last time, to take its news program to the “cemetery” midnight innings, Gym acostea It turned out that he is “Going independent” And launching a new show on Substack.

“After two decades of service, I am leaving CNN to start a new chapter, and I will not pull any punch around this time. I favor myself and for you, ”Acosta said in a press release.

“As I said during my sign-off at the end of my last show on CNN … don’t give up. Don’t give up the fear. Hold the truth. Hold Asha,” Acosta said. “Meanwhile .. in the meantime .. For President Trump and his colleagues, you can think that you have shocked.

In A short video shared on his new substation linkNow-Former CNN Anchor said he “wants to jump on substack live for a moment” and welcome potential customers in his new venture.

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Acosta is included in a growing list of mainstream news journalists and personalities, who have dug up the heritage media to go on an independent route on the substation. After his MSNBC show Was canceled in early 2024, Mehndi HasanNetwork left And launched the media company ZETEO on stage. He has since pulled thousands of payment customers and high-profile reporters and contributors into an emerging roster. (Disclaimer: This reporter worked for Zeto till last November.)

Earlier on Tuesday, ACOSTA informed the CNN audience that he would leave the network after 18 years, showing that it came to know something “after careful considering and weighing an alternative time slot” Did He also gave a serious last message To your audience.

He said, “This is not a good time to bow down to an oppressor,” he said: “Don’t give up in lies. Don’t give up.”

Acosta’s departure comes after CNN CEO Mark Thompson Proposed To take him to a shift from his ET Week Day slot at 10 o’clock which will start from midnight and will not end till 2 pm on the East Coast.

While the network head tried to portray the move of “Television’s Siberia” as an opportunity, Given that ACOSTA would air on the West Coast and be Simulcast on CNN International, critics have suggested that this ACOSTA Attempted to existing

“They want to get rid of Acosta to throw a bone for Trump,” a media executive said about the proposed proposal. “Midnight is not a serious offer when its rating is one of the best on the network.”

However Thompson told Acosta – an outspoken Trump critic – that this proposal had nothing to do with his editorial style and was. Regarding only one extra hour Amidst a programming shakeup, the President was Parmanand that Acosta was on out.

“Wow, really good news!” Jim Acosta, one of the worst and most unscrupulous reporters in the history of journalism, a major sledabag, to the midnight hour by CNN fake news, ‘Death Valley,’ by ‘Death Valley,’ of exceptionally poor rating (and no talent!) The reason has been resumed. Posted Tuesday morning. “The word is that he wants to leave, and it would be even better. The gym is a major loser person who does not matter where it ends. Good luck gym! He added sarcastically.

In his first post on Substack, ACOSTA noted his run-in with the President over the years, including Trump’s efforts to ban him from covering the White House.

“The Trump administration and its demanding colleagues made me their mission in life to run out of the city on a rail. From the suspension of my White House Press to the tireless calls for my firing on Fox News, not to mention the atmosphere of constant danger for me and my loved ones, it was a time of trying in my life, ”he wrote. “But for me, work always had a big purpose.”

“On the anchor desk, I ensured my program, CNN News Room with Jim AcostaAcosta said, “There is as much airtime dedicated as possible for the reporting of Trump’s attack on our elections and the destructive of his actions.” We also covered epidemic and other major news during this period, but we democracy beat But remaining laser-centered-a pit like a bull, tireless, tireless.