I agree and believe MSNBC and CNN have to know whatever that is that’s coming also with the way they’re losing viewership but being that they’re idiots they are, maybe not.
For CNN, why should they care? They are owned by ATT now after the Comcast merger. 40 years after we broke ATT up, they are nearly a monopoly again.
ATT is the largest of the cable oligopoly, and they operate in a monopoly fashion in the many cable districts in which they have the concession. They have the near absolute power to prevent competitive news networks from getting on the air. Even those few news channels that they do allow, those networks have to pay ATT for the privilege - while we ALSO pay ATT for the signal.
ATT should be broken up into 3 companies. One for content (news movies tv networks etc), one that sells phone, cable and internet packages to consumers on a competitive basis, and one that owns the cable/internet infrastructure and leases access in a competitive fashion to companies that want to compete in the market for selling cable and internet packages to consumers.
FWIW, about 100 years ago (the Supreme Court ruling was in 1948 but the case started as a Sherman Anti-Trust claim around 1920) we forced the movie studios to divest their ownership of movie theaters. It was anti-competitive because those movie houses would not show independent or 3rd party films. Breaking them up was great for the entertainment industry on whole, and great for consumers. The precedent exists.