CNN fires Alex Marquardt

Allan · Jun 4, 2025

This is the right decision imo. CNN is what all of the cable news networks are - sloppy sensationalist journalism. This time one of their reporters went too far.

Months after his story on a security contractor in Afghanistan resulted in the network paying out millions of dollars to settle a defamation lawsuit, Alex Marquardt announced he was departing CNN as its chief national correspondent.

Texts didn't help Alex's case at trial...

In the end, it may have been the Slack messages and emails from Marquardt to other editors about the story that were presented in court that sealed the trial’s fate. Marquardt and other CNN staffers referred to Young as a “sh*tbag” with a “punchable face,” with the now-former CNN correspondent saying he was “gonna nail this Zachary Young mf***er.”

CNN parts ways with correspondent months after his story cost network millions

CNN declined to comment on the circumstances surrounding Alex Marquardt’s departure, but did confirm that he was done with the network

www.independent.co.uk

Napoleon · Jun 4, 2025

Marquardt was not wrong in his implicit characterization of Young as an amoral swine for his predatory profiteering. Unfortunately, this isnt criminal and Marquardt went under the bus for implying otherwise.

reflechissez · Jun 4, 2025

Napoleon said:
Marquardt was not wrong in his implicit characterization of Young as an amoral swine for his predatory profiteering. Unfortunately, this isnt criminal and Marquardt went under the bus for implying otherwise.

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CNN fires Alex Marquardt

Allan

CNN parts ways with correspondent months after his story cost network millions

Napoleon

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