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Happy anniversary (of being laid off!)

365 days.

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Chris Cillizza
Nov 28, 2023
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(The news, when it broke)

A year ago today, CNN laid me off.

I’d like to tell you I saw it coming. I didn’t. Yes, I knew CNN needed to make cuts for budgetary reasons. But, no, I never thought I would be one of them.

Knowing that this anniversary was coming up, I have found myself wandering back through the clips from those days (the news actually took tw…

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