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“They Thought People Would Pay For CNN”: CNN+ Is A Hilarious Failure
https://thebluestateconservative.com ^ | April 12, 2022 | by Wayne Dupree

Posted on 04/13/2022 5:32:41 AM PDT by Red Badger

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41 posted on 04/13/2022 6:33:44 AM PDT by null and void (Bokassa always used to say, ‘You can’t feed people with politics.’)
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To: Red Badger

No evidence; but let me be the first to say: money laundering.


42 posted on 04/13/2022 6:36:34 AM PDT by themidnightskulker (And then the thread dies... peacefully, in it's sleep....)
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To: Red Badger

Never interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake.

Napoleon


43 posted on 04/13/2022 6:37:02 AM PDT by glorgau
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To: themidnightskulker

It was money laundering alright.

They washed it all away..................


44 posted on 04/13/2022 6:38:14 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

No one (except in airports) watches CNN free. Every cable, Dish, fiber, subscriber pays for CNN and every other channel they get monthly when they pay their bill. Nothing is free in TV land, never has been, even with an antenna. You pay more for everything you buy because of advertising costs on TV. When you rent a hotel room you pay a % of your room cost for the TV service.


45 posted on 04/13/2022 6:45:22 AM PDT by chuck allen
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To: Red Badger

The only reason they are still on the air is that they have contracts that were made long ago, when the internet was still transmitted via banging on rocks and smoke signals.

These contracts require cable services to include CNN. Nearly ALL of them.

Cut those contractual obligations, and make CNN a choice you can choose to add or not add, and CNN dies a RAPID death.

Plus we have to stop referring to them. We triple or quadruple their actual audience by reporting what CNN says. Why give them free rebroadcast and advertising?

Who cares what “CNN News reports that [something happened, evil Republicans to blame. Or Trump. Yeah, Trump and Russians....]”


46 posted on 04/13/2022 6:45:59 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: Red Badger

I don’t get the pay for news whether it’s CNN or FOX nation. If I need to hear about it, I’m sure it will be on the non-pay channel first. And even then, I can get all the information they have to give in the first 60 seconds. After that, it’s nothing but rinse and repeat for the next 12 to 24 hours. Sounds like the pay for news is just beating a dead horse.


47 posted on 04/13/2022 6:52:32 AM PDT by Hatteras
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To: Portcall24
“Trump should be able to buy the CNN channel franchise at a bargain price right now !”

And have a show that brings each of them on air and says, “You’re fired!” People would pay to watch that.

And the "You're fired" could be preceded by several clips of the journo-hack saying stupid/ridiculous things, later proven to be complete b.s. Make them sit there and watch their own feckless propaganda, before Trump says, "You're fired!"

I would definitely pay to see that. Just imagine Don Lemon, Dana Bash, Jim Acosta, or Van Jones on that show - it would be epic.

48 posted on 04/13/2022 7:12:59 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: Tench_Coxe
Purely anecdotal, but from what I could glean, people were getting turned off by the increasing one way slant in the way the news was reported

You reminded me of a time when my wife and I were at the gas station and she was approached by a salesman for the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Her response to his solicitation was "I'm not going to subscribe to a liberal rag."

lol...I'll never forget that.
49 posted on 04/13/2022 7:25:08 AM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: csvset

Good show. It is amazing that people still try to pull some version of the “Double Indemnity” life insurance scam, but Edward G. Robinson is still catching Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray (the modern-day versions).

Also, Luminol, DNA, your cell phone, security cameras all over the place and the electron microscope are going to bust you 99.99% of the time.


50 posted on 04/13/2022 7:48:19 AM PDT by Cecily
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To: Cecily
Yes, cell phones, credit card purchases too. DNA is solving decade old murders. I saw an episode where a guy was wrongly convicted and spent 15 years in prison.

He even mentioned the Forensic Files show in one of his appeals . He was freed via DNA analysis using techniques that weren’t available at the time of his conviction.

51 posted on 04/13/2022 7:57:17 AM PDT by csvset (tolerance becomes a crime when attached to evil)
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To: Red Badger

CNN wants you to pay to watch their crap? I don’t watch CNN (can’t get it on my poor channel lineup) but even if I did, I might chip in a little to help pay for getting them off the air.... As long as it was a permanent situation. Who would pay for watching “news” that was unreliable, or worse? If that’s the best they can do, then I (with no experience) would be a reliable choice as a station chief, or whatever they call it nowadays.


52 posted on 04/13/2022 9:09:44 AM PDT by oldtech
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To: Red Badger

I guess they have not noticed that my TVs are not even plugged in. And have not been for years.


53 posted on 04/13/2022 9:11:13 AM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: Red Badger

They did get one thing right: Chrissy brought all his viewers over. All eleven.


54 posted on 04/13/2022 9:18:06 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Tench_Coxe

Having lived in the same limited area for several years now, I was not too aware of declining newspaper subscription rates. Ours has been the opposite & closely resemble CNN’s situation now. A lousy paper, very little news, & a very high subscription price. Count me out, as of a long time ago. A VERY long time ago, it was a decent paper.


55 posted on 04/13/2022 9:25:08 AM PDT by oldtech
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To: Red Badger
there aren’t enough Fox viewers who “love” Chris Wallace.

Are there ANY Fox viewers who "love" Chris Wallace?

56 posted on 04/13/2022 10:14:42 AM PDT by LibertarianLiz
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To: Red Badger

The people who are inclined to watch CNN and/or CNN+ are people whose parents never loved them enough to teach them to think critically. Sad.


57 posted on 04/13/2022 12:15:25 PM PDT by Montana_Sam (Truth lives.)
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To: Portcall24
"....you're fired !"......

Absolutely LOVED your comment, LOL !

Leni

58 posted on 04/13/2022 2:29:56 PM PDT by MinuteGal (.....! MAGA !.....! MAGA!.....! MAGA !.....)
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To: null and void

That’s what headphones are for and downloading movies from Netflix.


59 posted on 04/13/2022 5:27:31 PM PDT by Mean Daddy (Every time Hillary lies, a demon gets its wings. - Windflier)
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To: Tench_Coxe

Probably 15 years ago, we were watching a California team practice for the College World Series and we got to visiting with a gentleman who looked to be about 60 and was a sportswriter for the town paper. Said that’s how his paper stayed in business was with a lot of local news and sports.

After the practice, we left the Creighton University campus to head back home in Iowa and the sportswriter was walking back to his hotel. This was NOT the neighborhood for an older white male to be walking. He was staying at a lower end hotel but appreciative that his paper sent him to Omaha to report on the series.

I wish I could remember the team and newspaper but it wasn’t a perennial powerhouse. He wrote about his experience and the fact total strangers gave him a ride to his hotel.


60 posted on 04/13/2022 5:36:41 PM PDT by Mean Daddy (Every time Hillary lies, a demon gets its wings. - Windflier)
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