[null and void]

I would pay to sit in a no CNN section of an airport.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Pay for CNN? ROTFL. I don’t even watch their free crap.

[Prolixus]

CNN†

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagger_(mark)

[PROCON]

They tried to replicate the success of FOX’s foxnation subscription service and failed miserably, too funny.

[V_TWIN]

They couldn’t PAY ME to watch that propaganda

[griswold3]

That’s a lot of Dem campaign cash flushed down the toilet. They thought there weren’t enough outlets spouting ‘progressives’ talking points 24/7?

[Moorings]

Chrissy Wallace thought that he would be a big draw to CNN+. Lol.

[CodeToad]

CNN, Communist Nitwit Network, and we Americans hate communists.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Force de jour.

[throwthebumsout]

And adding one smarmy guy from Fox News (Chris Wallace), who most loyal CNN viewers wrongly think is a “Republican bad guy,”...

You would have thought that they would have learned from Megyn's example.

[ChuckHam]

Zucker destroyed CNN and actually thought he could take his hyper partisan lying crap to streaming.

[Repealthe17thAmendment]

Their target audience is Democrats, people who don't like to pay for anything. They want the government to provide things to them.

How could CNN not know this?

[T.B. Yoits]

They call it "plus" like in extra turds.

[Dan in Wichita]

CNN's product is worthless. There is more real news on the Cartoon Network.

That they thought huge numbers of people would pay extra to watch their leftwing propaganda is evidence of their delusions.

[Tench_Coxe]

My personal opinion--look at the decline in subscription rates for newspapers that started in the 1990s. Yes, the rise of online news and the way consumers get their news did change. However, one element that wasn't talked about (or barely talked about) was content.

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, and the tone from some journalists along the lines of "we're going to tell you what a s****y person you are, and expect you to continue paying us to do it".
Also, newspapers increasingly reported on national/foreign news at the expense of local news, and even local news was written in the context of a national "narrative".

The theme I was picking up was "why would I pay for that?"

Guess that cushy airport contract expiring wasn't good for CNN. The trend of cord cutting--less of those carrier fees being spread around--isn't helping either.

I think we're seeing similar dynamic playing out that happened with newspapers.

[bert]

Failures who watch CNN have no money to pay for CNN. Being inferior and unequal, they have no money

[AU72]

10,000 paid subscribers? How many if you take out CNN employees?

[existentially_kuffer]

Looks like Chris Wallace is the main face of failed CNN.

[glorgau]

Never interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake.

Napoleon

[chuck allen]

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.