After the departure of CNN’s Jeff Zucker was announced, there was talk that the disgraced network would attempt to walk back its hyper-partisanship and become more balanced and unbiased in its reporting.

It just announced its next President and it gives off the feeling that this won’t exactly be the case.

According to CNN’s try-hardest host Brian Stelter, the new President will be Chris Licht.

Big news about CNN: @ChrisLicht has been selected to run the news network once Discovery and WarnerMedia merge. Announcement coming next week. Here's my full story for @CNNBusiness https://t.co/1TB6S3jLZb

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) February 26, 2022

For those who have never heard of him before, Licht is a producer and creator of left-wing news programs. If you’re wondering who to blame for the embarrassment that is “Morning Joe,” that was Licht’s creation. He’s currently the executive producer of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” a show who liked to accuse President Donald Trump of being Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “c**k holster.”

As Stelter tells it, Licht will be taking a more narrow role in the company than Zucker had, focusing solely on the news instead of both news and sports for WarnerMedia.

It may be that Licht will surprise us all and he’ll put aside his obvious bias to the left and focus squarely on telling the news as it is instead of acting as a propaganda outlet for the Democrat Party as Zucker did during his run…but I doubt it.

CNN’s culture is one that leans so far left it’s fallen over into an absurd territory and Licht seems to reek of the same stench if you’re to judge him by his work. Colbert’s program is hardly a late-night comedy program and looks more like CNN with an audience trained to laugh at unfunny jokes squarely aimed at anything to the right of AOC. The naked disdain for anything even remotely right-leaning that oozes from hosts on Licht’s programs suggests that we’re in for much of the same drivel America has grown to hate about CNN.

I have no doubt that CNN may experience a slight viewership bump under Licht. He seems to have a better understanding of what people find entertaining, but the question is who is the audience he’s trying to entertain? “America” would be the wrong answer.

CNN would likely take some viewership from MSNBC, but it’s unlikely Licht knows how to speak to the rest of America’s center/center-right audience. Even now, looking at who’s watching who during late-night programming, more people are watching Gutfeld on Fox News than they are Colbert.

It remains to be seen, and I may be totally wrong, but I get the feeling that Licht will just make CNN better at fighting over the table scraps with MSNBC that are left behind by Fox News.