15 Replies to “This Is CNN”

  1. Apparently I was dense when during many international trips I only saw CNN on air terminal screens. And CNN International being 10X more agitprop than in US it became white noise. Then someone let me in that overseas and in US airports they had exclusive contracts. Anyone remember TV1 channel in US schools long ago? Get em while they are young but this news bit means that no one (including those that grew up in school being force fed only one viewpoint) is buying streaming CNN is so a
    positive sign Let the marketplace speak!

  2. I enjoy the squeeze that CNN is in. It does not have much maneuvering room.

    The ” normies” know that CNN is all agitprop and the “Woke” are all upset by the same old White faces. Anything that CNN does will drive viewers away. Then, again, they don’t have much to loose.

  3. *
    At least CNN+ subscribers get to make a choice… the federal
    government here in Canuckistan just yanks it out of our taxes.
    A billion and a half dollars yearly.

    *

    1. We lived in Seattle 4 years; travelled to Vancouver multiple times of course (rains less than in Seattle) and camped in woods near Kamloops. Your country and mine on a bad trajectory. We were looking at cross country train holiday in Canada; now I can’t even stomach going to Maine, New Hampshire et al let alone Nova Scotia. Any advice in this regards? Thanks

  4. Well, they should have at least five subscribers,

    Colonialidiot
    Allen S(hitforbrains)
    Can’tSee Morning
    King Kanuk I
    UnMe

    Unless, of course, these are just all sockpuppets for one sad and pathetic individual by the name of….Brian Stelter?

  5. The base cornerstone of success in the Free Market is to know your market.
    Work out who they are, what they want, how much they are willing to invest in your product, how much you can realistically capture.
    Then you can structure your product against that.
    If you discover there are a million people who think the moon is made of cheese and you want a slice of their wallets, then you offer up content on suitable wine and crackers to match moon cheese with, you do not look at that market and decide what they really need is some hard science lessons on the vacuum of space.

    The Left media don’t seem to grasp that. They seem to see methods of providing product and assume if they use those methods the market will come to them. If we take media as an example a savy media owner would work out how the market breaks down and provide for each. The Murdoch press here in Oz is actually reasonable good at that. They publish The Australian for the thinking conservative types (although that is going woke lately) as a national daily and then have the city based publications cover sport for the bogans, social gathers for the wine mums and progressive stuff for the centre left. They don’t cover conservative issues cause the people who like that stuff are already buying the Oz.

    The rival media – The Nine Papers (ex Fairfax Press) – are openly Left and write Left things for Left people. Problem is Left people expect things for free and read the paper for free with their latte and Centre and Right people find little content that interests them.

    So rather than moving their editorial to the centre a bit, they prefer to think the population have been radicalised by the Alt-Right, are scum and the best thing to do is offer the same Left content just via different methods.

    If you Woke it They will Come.

    No. If you Woke it, you Broke it.

    CNN seem the same. It is not ‘our message is too narrow for the broad market’, it is ‘our message isn’t on Streaming Services. We need to be a Streaming Service. HBO is a streaming service. Netflix is a streaming service. If we go streaming we be good like.’

  6. My one concern about the death of Legacy Media is that Nu Media will also take a hit.

    Nu Media often reacts. As much as I love it and love the personal takes and analysis free from central planning and audited narrative, Nu Media lacks the ability to actually gather outside of their immediate circles. When we had the Truckers (#thankatrucker) sure local bloggers went out on the streets and mingled. However what is going to happen if something of international interest pops up the other side of the country? Or the world?

    Or Will Smith showing the world how the Elite put black men in their place earlier in the week – who from Nu Media was actually at the venue to capture it live? My (safe) guess is none. The world is reacting off the ‘official’ feed.

    So, unfortunately as much as I mock and hate the MSM, the interrelationship between them and Nu Media is still slightly complex.

    Sigh.

  7. The only thing I heard Brian Stelter mentioning for his CNN+ was shows featuring dead guys and fags. I can get that on Disney.

  8. Isn’t it bizarre that one has to pay specifically extra for Fox News, on the Canadian cable and CNN is included in the whatever package it is.
    Paying for something that is watchable and being forced to pay for a channel that is being watched for 0 minutes.
    Heh, then you have the CeeBeeCee that is in the similar or same forced bag with 0 time watched.

  9. Let’s see now. For years CNN has gone out of it way to alienate people who work for a living (the right) and champion the free-loaders who love spending other peoples money (the left). CNN’s ratings back this up. CNN thinks a streaming service (CNN+) will help their bottom line, but forgot that the people willing to spend their hard earned money no longer watch them. Here is a fine example of Karma.

    If only we had the same choice up here in Canada with regards to funding of the CBC and the rest of the legacy media

  10. ya come a long way cnn since James Earl Jones intoned with that authoritative baritone of his.

    all downhill.

    waiting for someone to come up with an uproarious play on ‘cnn’

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