[Graybeard58]

I’m no media mogul, but, with so much money and resources of talent such as Chris Wallace involved, wouldn’t they take more time than just a month, to see if they can gain an audience?

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If they had only polled F.R. before investing gazillion$, they would have known it was gonna be a catastrophic flop.

Chris Wallace should have been their number one clue.

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If they had only polled F.R. before investing gazillion$, they would have known it was gonna be a catastrophic flop.

If only they'd polled anyone outside the company, even D.U., they'd have known better.

I'm good friends with some hard Lefties (inlcuding some avowed Socialists who view Bernie Sanders as a corporatist sellout), all of whom pay for multiple subscription services and are news junkies. And to a man, their unanimous reaction to the announcement of CNN+ was incredulity and derision.

Apparently the hacks at CNN believed their own assertions of being a "prestige" and "elite" brand and assumed that since they viewed themselves as worth investing in, so would consumers. The same delusion as many spectacularly failed business ventures, I guess- an overabundance of confidence and ego.