Nearly a week after he published the bombshell piece about significant layoffs coming next year to CNN that will impact those behind and in front of the camera, Puck’s Dylan Byers reported Wednesday night that CNN host and former Fox News Sunday anchor Chris Wallace wasn’t simply departing the network because he wanted to explore podcast, but rather due to the fact his shows were being axed (and thus he wanted to get out ahead of any announcement).
Byers explained that Wallace made the decision “on Monday evening” in a call to CNN’s “talent chief Amy Entelis…that he intended to leave at the end of his contract,” which was followed shortly thereafter in a nauseatingly coordinated move, a Daily Beast article heralding his departure to look at “streaming or podcast” since that’s “where the action seems to be.”
Byers made clear he…
