“The thing that struck me was that Licht seemed to be operating on slogans, not actual ideas and didn’t seem to recognize the difference between the two,” observed Jelani Cobb, dean of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, after reading Alberta’s article. “Licht managed to alienate everybody at CNN and people might think giving a magazine profile access was fatally stupid, but my experience of the media industry says all of this would have been irrelevant to a boss’s longevity if he had made ratings go up instead of down,” observed the Los Angeles Times reporter Matt Pearce.