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Posted on 02/05/2022 6:38:59 AM PST by MtnClimber
CNN left its roots, stopped being the news agency with international reach it set out to be, and morphed into an increasingly maniacal, 24/7 left-wing diatribe.
CNN is dying. Its president, Jeff Zucker, was just fired. (Or, rather, he “resigned.”) The network’s viewership is plummeting, and fewer than 500,000 people on average tuned in last month. Advertisers don’t send their dollars there much anymore, and the “stars” the network once had either have been removed for cause or caught up in sex or other scandals.
Chris “Fredo” Cuomo threatened to burn the place down after getting fired last year. Why does the parent company—AT&T, a telephone megacompany—put up with it? CNN is a drag on the parent company’s earnings, a thorn in its side, and a hit on its reputation. Wouldn’t a rational actor cancel the network altogether or sell it off and be done with it? With $150 billion in debt, no wonder AT&T decided to sell the ailing network to the Discovery Network. AT&T will no doubt benefit from getting out of politics.
What I Saw Behind the Scenes at CNN It wasn’t always this way. Atlanta was a Southern town, but it was becoming something very different and more impressive by 1992. It was getting cosmopolitan and downright worldly. Atlanta had won the 1996 Summer Olympics (secured by Mayor Andrew Young at—you guessed it—Davos). Segregation was over and grits were becoming hard to find.
One company had come to personify the newfound swagger and embodied the spirit of the “New South.” That company had started as a small-fry radio station with a big signal and had grown into the powerhouse, most-watched-network on cable television. Its format was unheard of at the time: all news, all the time.
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Now everyone knows that CNN lies 24/7. I hope they die a slow, painful death. Maybe Chris Wallace will go there and convince Neil Cavuto to come over.
Ok. What about MSNBC? Their ratings are decent and they are a bunch of lefty bomb throwers.
I think MSNBC is swirling around the drain too. But, they may need an extra flush.
Ya, their big ratings getter, Madcow, is going on “hiatus” for a while.
And take PBS with them.
CNN is a pillar of the regime.
Therefore - they cannot go bankrupt.
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CNN’s complete philosophy is that employees can have sex with whomever they want, whenever they want unless the CNN employee gets hurt, then someone has to pay.
Glad to see if OFF at the airports - getting bombarded with CNN from every TV at every gate was just as bad as being searched and irradiated and having to take my shoes off (have arthritis so it isn’t easy).
At airports, most people are on their smartphones and ignoring what is on the TV screens. Unlike 10 years ago, there is no longer a captive audience for CNN.
There was all kinds of preitions that Friday there were going to be other firings. Never happened. This is why I feel people shouldn’t predict stuff. Let it play out and let’s see reality.
“Glad to see if OFF at the airports - getting bombarded with CNN from every TV at every gate was just as bad as being searched and irradiated and having to take my shoes off (have arthritis so it isn’t easy).”
I used to have to hide in corners to get away from that crap.
Certainly Not News(CNN).
Predictions are hard.
Especially about the future.
-Yogi Bera
That was what I did, too! We probably ran into each other in those far-away dark recesses of the airport.
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Yes!
I actually had some success at getting CNN and MSNBC removed from the waiting room TV at the pharmacy in the Lexington, KY VA center.
They sent a survey which allowed me to comment. I told them that, as a veteran, I was highly insulted by being bombarded with all of this anti-Americanism 24/7 at the veteran's hospital! They removed them from the pharmacy TV, at least not on a 24/7 schedule.
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