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....]”
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.
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.
I guess they have not noticed that my TVs are not even plugged in. And have not been for years.
They did get one thing right: Chrissy brought all his viewers over. All eleven.
Are there ANY Fox viewers who "love" Chris Wallace?
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.