CNN media reporter Oliver Darcy announced Thursday that he departed CNN and has launched a new newsletter.
Darcy confirmed his departure to Mediaite, saying he was honored to work at the network “during a time when truth is under assault.” His new newsletter, “Status,” is independent and subscription-based, and is intended to reach subscribers’ inboxes every Sunday through Thursday evening.
“It has been the privilege of my life to report for CNN and serve as the steward of the Reliable Sources franchise — particularly during a time when truth is under assault and people are searching for accurate, reliable information,” Darcy said, according to Mediaite. “Covering the information space is more important than ever and I am excited to launch Status, embark on this new journey, and tap into my entrepreneurial spirit.”
Darcy had been with CNN for seven years.
Darcy repeatedly called for censorship of right-leaning organizations and pubic figures during his time at CNN. He wrote in a CNN newsletter from November 30, 2020, that Twitter needed to label then-President Donald Trump’s entire account as disinformation, according to Fox News.
“Nearly every tweet from the president at this point is labeled for misinfo. Which had me thinking,” Darcy wrote at the time. “Why doesn’t Twitter just take the step of labeling his entire account as a known source of election disinfo? And why stop there? Why not label accounts that repeatedly spread claims the platform has to fact-check?”
Darcy further called on cable news companies to de-platform Fox News, Newsmax and One America News Network for its alleged disinformation in a January 28, 2021 analysis.
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“Yes, Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson and Mark Levin and others are responsible for the lies they peddle to their audiences. But the TV companies that beam them into millions of homes around the country also bear some responsibility. And yet we rarely, if ever, talk about them,” Darcy wrote.
More recently, Darcy ridiculed Ticketmaster in a June 13 piece for selling tickets for Daily Caller News Foundation co-founder Tucker Carlson’s 15-city arena tour. He called on companies with “basic ethics” to resist conducting business with those who spread alleged “dangerous and hateful rhetoric.”
Darcy also lashed out at his then-employer CNN for holding a town hall with Trump in May 2023. He reportedly engaged in a heated spat with former CNN President Chris Licht following the event, where Licht reportedly told Darcy his coverage of the event was “emotional.”
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Darcy again criticized CNN for holding a December 13 town hall with then-Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, arguing the network should not give the then-candidate a platform for allegedly having “spewed dangerous lies.”
Darcy is the most recent of a longline of CNN veterans to depart the network, including Brian Stelter, John Harwood and John Avlon.
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First published by the Daily Caller News Foundation.