Return to genuine journalism? These propagandists wouldn’t even know what that looks like. The only way CNN dies is if significant numbers stop watching them and stop believing them, like what is almost already true of MSNBC. Only the fringe wacko Rachel Mad Cow Disease sexless nutburgers still think MSNBC is credible journalism.
Trump can’t kill CNN. Only their investors can. And the investors will if they find their brands suffer by being associated with CNN.
No, but their customers can. And that is already happening. Big-market daily newspapers are shrinking (and dying) at a gigantic rate. I suspect this past election cycle has accelerated the process.