Chris Licht, who became CEO of CNN earlier this year, said he has been surprised by the “uninformed vitriol” directed at him from liberals as he attempts to shift the network’s editorial direction, in a series of interviews with The New York Times.

When my first (of soon-to-be five) kids met Santa, the bearded man reached out expectantly, nodding for me to hand him the toddler. I hesitated a bit, wondering if my kid would freak out as the few children in front of us in line had.