New boss at CNN attempts to moderate the network

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:IMHO, Licht's big problem regarding the CNN Trump segment was packing the hall with true believers and allowing them to hoot and holler. That whole segment looks a lot different with a broad range of Americans and no cheering or jeering.

CNN was on free fall way before the Trump segment.

[Anonymous]

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CNN only survived so long because of Trump.

The NYT would have gone next had it not reinvented itself as a source of crosswords, recipes and games.

NYT readership has gone up over the last five years substantially. It's not because of crosswords.

It's partly because of crosswords. NYT has been smart about diversifying what it provides to readers and subscribers.

https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2022/news-alone-is-no-longer-the-driver-of-new-york-times-subscription-growth/

Exactly.

"the Times is heavily pushing what it calls internally “the bundle.” That is an all-access product that also includes Games and Cooking verticals, audio, the Wirecutter product information site and now The Athletic, which the Times purchased for $550 million in January."

It is an information/ entertainment platform, not a newspaper.

CNN didn't want or couldn't evolve that way. I guess they could have hired Oprah and Dr. Phil to host some prime-time programs.

The point is that it's both - it is a newspaper, and it has recipes and games.

CNN has been putting out entertainment shows, too. That Italy show with Stanley Tucci, just for one. I think cable is sort of a losing prospect right now, is the thing. I guess just like they figured out how to turn NYT around, the right person with the right brain could probably figure that out for CNN, too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How much longer does Kaitlin Collins last? A Daily Caller writer doesn't fit into a network that isn't pandering to the hard right

Collins has been getting massive scoops on the Trump documents case recently. She’s not going anywhere.

[Anonymous]

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CNN only survived so long because of Trump.

The NYT would have gone next had it not reinvented itself as a source of crosswords, recipes and games.

NYT readership has gone up over the last five years substantially. It's not because of crosswords.

It's partly because of crosswords. NYT has been smart about diversifying what it provides to readers and subscribers.

https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2022/news-alone-is-no-longer-the-driver-of-new-york-times-subscription-growth/

Exactly.

"the Times is heavily pushing what it calls internally “the bundle.” That is an all-access product that also includes Games and Cooking verticals, audio, the Wirecutter product information site and now The Athletic, which the Times purchased for $550 million in January."

It is an information/ entertainment platform, not a newspaper.

CNN didn't want or couldn't evolve that way. I guess they could have hired Oprah and Dr. Phil to host some prime-time programs.

The point is that it's both - it is a newspaper, and it has recipes and games.

CNN has been putting out entertainment shows, too. That Italy show with Stanley Tucci, just for one. I think cable is sort of a losing prospect right now, is the thing. I guess just like they figured out how to turn NYT around, the right person with the right brain could probably figure that out for CNN, too.

Well, it is questionable what it is/ what it is becoming, other than a profitable media conglomerate.

From the great article that you (I assume) shared:

"The shifting pattern of growth raises the question of whether the Times can still be described as a news company. Investor information service Zacks characterized it in an earnings preview story Tuesday as a “diversified media conglomerate.”

In his inaugural column for Semafor October 18, co-founder Ben Smith (with some hyperbole) wrote that the Times is experiencing “an identity crisis.” He asked, is it morphing from “a news company expanding into tech products” to “a tech company with an ancillary news product?”

Might be a harder trick for CNN to tweak things that way given its core brand.

[Anonymous]

Licht is exactly what the normalization of white supremacy disguised and cloaked with 'both side-ism' looks like. I'm not returning to CNN.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Licht is exactly what the normalization of white supremacy disguised and cloaked with 'both side-ism' looks like. I'm not returning to CNN.

You're delusional and certainly WILL return to CNN, the original source of your delusion

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Meanwhile, Tucker posted his first 10 minute segment on Twitter 15 hours ago and currently sits at 63 million views. This new media will destroy the legacy media like CNN

If you really believe that Tucker had 63 million views in 15 hours, I've got a bridge to sell you.

I was wrong... 73 million yet let's not focus on that, rather focus on all the bot followers of dear leaders, Comrade Barry.

[Anonymous]

Imagine actually believing CNN is being "moderated."

CNN was corporatist center right before, the new owners are shifting it hard right. There is absolutely nothing moderate about it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How much longer does Kaitlin Collins last? A Daily Caller writer doesn't fit into a network that isn't pandering to the hard right

Collins has been getting massive scoops on the Trump documents case recently. She’s not going anywhere.

Those scoops don't seem to be helping viewership

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Imagine actually believing CNN is being "moderated."

CNN was corporatist center right before, the new owners are shifting it hard right. There is absolutely nothing moderate about it.

Word! Chasing the trump/Fox followers will never work. Every trump/maga/republican viewer you gain you lose 100 normal viewers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How much longer does Kaitlin Collins last? A Daily Caller writer doesn't fit into a network that isn't pandering to the hard right

She's from Alabama...how else was she supposed to break in as a journalist?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Meanwhile, Tucker posted his first 10 minute segment on Twitter 15 hours ago and currently sits at 63 million views. This new media will destroy the legacy media like CNN

If you really believe that Tucker had 63 million views in 15 hours, I've got a bridge to sell you.

I was wrong... 73 million yet let's not focus on that, rather focus on all the bot followers of dear leaders, Comrade Barry.

Tucker has gone full-on Alex Jones

[Anonymous]

Yet another billionaire destroying a news platform from within.

[Anonymous]

Licht can get a job at Truth Social. He’s obviously a great bootlicker.

[Anonymous]

Nobody wants a moderate news channel. Extremism sells, for the left and the right.