CNN will ban its anchors from drinking alcohol while on the air during the network’s New Year’s Eve special, breaking from a yearslong tradition in an attempt to boost the station’s credibility.
Network executives announced the rule change during a meeting in mid-November, telling employees they would not be permitted to drink alcohol live on-air, with hosts Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen reportedly exempt from the rule. However, CNN CEO Chris Licht later walked back on those comments, clarifying he implied that as “a joke” and that he would prefer “no drinking on-air at all,” a staffer told journalist Max Tani.
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