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Crazy thought about CNN

Posted on 6/7/23 at 10:07 pm
Posted by FLTech
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Posted on 6/7/23 at 10:07 pm
More news came out today that CNN literally has no viewers and barely turning a profit to keep the lights on.

I truly think the only way they ever get out of this mess is to rebrand, change the name of the station and go the Fair and Balanced format. 50% shitty liberal news and 50% shitty right news.

Shitty meaning report all bad news about each party. The only way they could convince the world that they have changed their ways is to rebrand and change the name.
This post was edited on 6/7/23 at 10:37 pm
Posted by shutterspeed
MS Gulf Coast
Member since May 2007
63682 posts
Posted on 6/7/23 at 10:11 pm to
quote:

I truly think the only way they ever get out of this mess is to rebrand, change the name of the station and go the Fair and Balanced format. 50% shitty liberal news and 50% shitty right news.


Is it not already clear that CNN is being financially propped up expressly to continue its propaganda?
Posted by WinnPtiger
Fort Worth
Member since Mar 2011
23929 posts
Posted on 6/7/23 at 10:13 pm to
news networks only exist because of cable bundles
Posted by joeyjoejoeshabadoo
DeRidder
Member since Aug 2020
429 posts
Posted on 6/7/23 at 10:16 pm to
Don't forget airports.
Posted by TheRoarRestoredInBR
Member since Dec 2004
30314 posts
Posted on 6/7/23 at 10:20 pm to
Ted Turner is a Leftist, and he let Lou Dobbs, a Conservative, build a very well respected news network, even with a slight to light-heavy Left bias, but still was somewhat fair..at least before the late 1990s..

They have taken his baby and turned it into a CIA 4AM talking points lie machine, a world cabal/totalitarian propaganda microphone, to keep the useful idiots in line.

I know it must make Ted sad what they have done to his creation.
Posted by theRealJesseD
Member since Nov 2021
2924 posts
Posted on 6/7/23 at 10:23 pm to
cable news/opinion is dead man walking regardless
Posted by VADawg
Wherever
Member since Nov 2011
45140 posts
Posted on 6/7/23 at 10:24 pm to
quote:

More news came out today that CNM literally has no viewers and barely turning a profit to keep the lights on.

I truly think the only way they ever get out of this mess is to rebrand, change the name of the station and go the Fair and Balanced format. 50% shitty liberal news and 50% shitty right news.


If they did this, they would lose their government subsidies (via Pfizer).
Posted by AUX3
Member since Dec 2010
3452 posts
Posted on 6/7/23 at 10:24 pm to
I thought I read where pharmaceutical companies are covering like 80% of ad costs. Something crazy like that for all the networks.

6.6Bil in 22’
This post was edited on 6/7/23 at 10:26 pm
Posted by Jack Ruby
Member since Apr 2014
22920 posts
Posted on 6/7/23 at 10:26 pm to
CNN just needs to go back to a 24/7 international type news network with low overhead and lots of in the ground reporting from war zones, African Civil wars, etc.

They could also need a Larry King type to headline their nights, where it's basically just a podcast interview show at 7 pm.

They also need to clear out the entire newsroom... But none of this will ever happen.
Posted by Jack Carter
Member since Sep 2018
10573 posts
Posted on 6/7/23 at 10:27 pm to
quote:

50% shitty liberal news and 50% shitty right news.


That's what the CEO was trying to do before he got fired
Posted by FLTech
the A
Member since Sep 2017
12967 posts
Posted on 6/7/23 at 10:37 pm to
Wow I never knew this about Lou Dobbs. Thanks for the info!
This post was edited on 6/7/23 at 11:37 pm
Posted by Corso
Atlanta
Member since Feb 2020
10885 posts
Posted on 6/7/23 at 10:42 pm to
The CNN people calling the Trump Town Hall a disaster tells you everything you need to know.

High ratings? Who cares those people were clapping for him!
Posted by Kafka
I am the moral conscience of TD
Member since Jul 2007
142715 posts
Posted on 6/7/23 at 11:18 pm to
Actually Ted Turner started CNN as an alternative to "pinkos" like Dan Rather.

By the late 80s something had changed, w/rules like you had to say "international" instead of "foreign"

Posted by FLTech
the A
Member since Sep 2017
12967 posts
Posted on 6/7/23 at 11:37 pm to
The ceo did not come close to trying this. They were/are still 100% left leaning. Look how they treated trump with his town hall
Posted by SirWinston
PNW
Member since Jul 2014
82608 posts
Posted on 6/7/23 at 11:47 pm to
The craziest thing is some of the most intelligent and successful people I know flip to CNN in the men’s locker room every day. It’s awful. How can people so smart be so blind? Sometime I wonder if maybe they’re somehow right and then I snap back to reality and remember all the stuff we’ve seen these last 7 years. They’re just so smug and dismiss us so easily - they’re the ones being intellectually lazy and dishonest.
This post was edited on 6/7/23 at 11:48 pm
Posted by biglego
Ask your mom where I been
Member since Nov 2007
76642 posts
Posted on 6/8/23 at 1:28 am to
quote:

More news came out today that CNN literally has no viewers and barely turning a profit to keep the lights on.


Well it’s just one of a multitude of liberal news outlets so there’s a lot of competition
Posted by UncleLogger
Freetown
Member since Jan 2008
2702 posts
Posted on 6/8/23 at 1:52 am to
It’s the Feds.
Posted by ChineseBandit58
Pearland, TX
Member since Aug 2005
42960 posts
Posted on 6/8/23 at 4:29 am to
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report all bad news about each party

This is what the news should concentrate on - period.

Let the "good news" just be celebration of widely held historical national interest items in passing - with in-depth coverage of major world changing events like Columbus Day, Plymouth Rock, July 4th, D-Day, Pearl Harbor, Moon Landing, plus major historicallly prevalent Religious Holiday (no recent inventions) et at - Major stuff that was world shaping and national significance.

NO PROMOTING THE LATEST FAD!!! Let "cultural" revolutions take place like they are SUPPOSED to - by general acceptance of the population as a whole without coercion of any kind. IF it is a 'good' change, it will take place in its proper historical era by common acceptance and only noticed that a 'change' occurred by future generations looking BACK and saying - Wow - look how the world 'changed"

Today - we are all hyped up on MAKE It CHANGE NOW - to suit the most LOUDMOUTHED and ANTI-SOCIAL amongst up = FORCING a 'culture change' = just because we CAN.

ANY media outlet with a liscense to command an airwave frequency or an internet connection must be UNCENSORED - and regulated to check for FACTUAL accuracy in what they allow to be transmitted.

Any CAMPAIGN oriented material should be prefaced by "these views are only the OPINIONs of the articles the airtime they consume has been PAID FOR as COMMERCIAL broadcasts, but no ANTI-FACTUAL matter is permitted."

For instance - you are PROHIBITED from broadcasting the notion that "trump said Nazi's were perfectly fine people" as the most INSIDIOUS lie ever told that is STILL being touted by over and over and over.

This is my prime example - there are worse - and there are some by BOTH SIDEs - but only ONE SIDE is completely consumed by LYING - EVERY campaign issue they tout is either a LIE - or it is a completely illogical and purposeful mischaracterization of the truth.

Welcome to reality CNN - would LOVE to see your brand return to its founding principles.
Posted by SouthEasternKaiju
SouthEast... you figure it out
Member since Aug 2021
25601 posts
Posted on 6/8/23 at 5:11 am to
CNN just fired their only shot at any sort of redemption.


It's done
Posted by Kattail
Member since Aug 2020
3365 posts
Posted on 6/8/23 at 5:40 am to
How about just report the news. Dump their shitty biased opinion people, abandon their political agenda.
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