CNN’s Dana Bash blasts LA Times for calling her John King’s ‘ex-wife’

CNN news anchor Dana Bash slammed the Los Angeles Times on Thursday over a headline that referred to her as colleague John King’s “ex-wife” — prompting the newspaper to edit out the reference.

Bash reacted on Twitter to the LA Times’ write-up of CNN’s announcement this week that the all-news cable outfit had tapped her to replace her former spouse as the lead anchor on the daily program “Inside Politics.”

The original headline on the LA Times story read: “John King exits CNN’s ‘Inside Politics’ for new role. His ex-wife Dana Bash will succeed him.”

“Hey @latimes,” Bash tweeted on Thursday.

Bash continued:⁩ “yes John and I used to be married. We are now friends and share a wonderful son together.”

“In this context I am not an ‘ex wife,’ I am a veteran journalist with decades of experience who worked hard for this role.”

“Do better please,” Bash wrote in the tweet.

A short time later, the LA Times edited the headline and removed reference to the fact that King and Bash were once married.

“Thank you @latimes,” Bash tweeted after the newspaper made the change.

Bash, 51, and King were married from 2008 until 2012. She gave birth to their son in 2011.

A spokesperson for the LA Times told The Post on Friday that the publication “updated the headline on the story after it published.”

“We agreed that including the reference to King and Bash having previously been a married couple in the headline could be misinterpreted,” the spokesperson for the publication told The Post.

“The updated headline conveys the two main bits of news: King is leaving the show and Bash will be taking over.”

Bash, a New York native, has spent nearly 30 years at CNN, where she has covered Capitol Hill and the White House.

Before King, she was married from 1998 to 2007 to Jeremy Bash, a former top CIA official and adviser in the Obama administration and current national security analyst for MSNBC.

Dana Bash will continue to co-host the Sunday political talk show “State of the Union” alongside Jake Tapper.

King, 59, who is best known among CNN viewers for his election night analysis of county-by-county vote tallies as they’re projected onto a computerized map, will lead a new reporting project where he tells stories about voters in key battleground states, the network said.

“This is my ‘Back to the Future’ dream assignment,” King said.

“It is my 10th presidential cycle and, given the stakes, I felt it was time to get back to my roots reporting across the country.”

CNN network executives have been mulling the change for some time, according to the Daily Beast’s Confider media newsletter, which first reported on the possible shake-up earlier this month.

The network under new boss Chris Licht has overhauled its lineup in hopes of boosting its ratings.

Earlier this week, CNN fired Don Lemon, the embattled “CNN This Morning” co-host, after a string of missteps and on-air controversies, including a sexist remark about GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley’s age.

King, CNN’s chief national correspondent, has hosted the weekday edition of “Inside Politics” since 2014. The show airs weekdays at noon.

With Post wires