New boss at CNN attempts to moderate the network

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Anonymous wrote:I mean, if y'all are okay with fantasy news having little to do with actual events, I guess you're upset with the layoffs. Hate to see anyone lose their jobs, but CNN was completely untrustworthy in their reporting. They crossed a line.

Once in a while I'll turn on CNN with the faint hope I might get an idea what's going on somewhere in the world. Domestic news? They've proven to be partisan to a point no journalist should go.

If the new CNN is just as ridiculous as the current one, I will not be relying on them to tell it to me straight.

What line did they cross? Was there something specific?
- I don’t watch CNN

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They laid off Chris Cillizza YAAAAAAY

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What does a "fair hearing" look like for elite politicians who supported a coup?

Where did CNN find this GOP bootlicker?

Running liberal shows. He started Morning Joe, which in early years might not have been as liberal. Joe Scarborough on Bill Maher was pretty conservative.
Ran CBS News This Morning, and Stephen Colbert's Late Show.

Cable news ratings is less about politics, and more about visuals. That is why Fox News is so successful, and other networks have tried to copy the look of having a big mess on screen.

Fox every time I watched clearly had lower production quality in terms of cameras cutting off and things like that, but always has a tabloid feel, which is what made Murdoch rich.

Who cares if CNN loses viewers? There don't appear to be that many to begin with.

Fox isn’t successful. It’s funded by money obtained by laundering illegal drug sales and by commercials for products marketed to soon-to-be-dead old people.

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If CNN wants to survive they need to go HARD progressive. That’s where the consumers with real disposable income are. Trying to ride some sort of center-right bubble like they’ve been doing up until now is a failure.

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Hard to believe he is still employed at CNN.

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Anonymous wrote:I would like to see all cable news channels return to journalism. I think 24 hour news was the beginning of the end for our society, not Twitter. Packaging up “info-tainment” segments for mass consumption is what set the stage for the division. It removed the seriousness and nuance that should be present when discussing politics. It gave everyone a front seat to random and rare violence in far away cities that made it seem down the street.

To me, the huge problem is just that the news channels have tried to save money and pump up ratings by turning their backs on hard news.

I'm a liberal Democrat, but, when I turn on CNN or MSNBC (or, Fox News, if I ever watched it), I just don't want to see a reality show about life in prison. I don't want to see more than about one half-hour panel discussion show per day. I want to turn on a news channel like that and see... news.

And I want two people who can at least add up-to-date text crawls to the screen working around the clock. If something really big happens in Europe at 3 a.m. U.S. time, I at least want that to show up in a text crawl on U.S. news stations by about 4 a.m. I don't want to have a sense that U.S. TV news works bankers' hours. I get that news people have lives, and that there will mostly be reruns at 4 a.m., but I want to see actual news and reasonably fresh news features at 4 a.m., not reality TV shows, and not sobered-up bar stool drunks blathering about the world.

+1 amen!!

+1

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Anonymous wrote:I would like to see all cable news channels return to journalism. I think 24 hour news was the beginning of the end for our society, not Twitter. Packaging up “info-tainment” segments for mass consumption is what set the stage for the division. It removed the seriousness and nuance that should be present when discussing politics. It gave everyone a front seat to random and rare violence in far away cities that made it seem down the street.

Agree; and well-said.

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There's still hope for CNN and other networks, although I agree with a PP that the 24hr news concept leads inevitably to catastrophizing.

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There's still hope for CNN and other networks, although I agree with a PP that the 24hr news concept leads inevitably to catastrophizing.

CNN is modeling Fox and there is not enough RWNJ’s to go around.

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Trump played him like a fiddle.

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They can turn around their ratings real quick if they would just find that Malaysian plane.

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There's still hope for CNN and other networks, although I agree with a PP that the 24hr news concept leads inevitably to catastrophizing.

CNN is modeling Fox and there is not enough RWNJ’s to go around.

They've been bailing on FOX as well.

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Licht is out.

That was fast.

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