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Re: Big cuts coming for CNN+ after slow start

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Post by sfblah » Thu, Apr 14, 2022, 5:35 PM UTC

dbbk wrote: post #65

sfblah wrote: post #7

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My take on this was it was just a clone of the Fox News pay service. The CNN one would just be from a left-leaning perspective or some such. I bet if they market it better, it will do OK.

If you've seen anything from Chris Cillizza you wouldn't say CNN is left-leaning. Also, their major star of CNN+ is Chris Wallace who they poached from Fox News.

That's interesting. I don't pay for CNN+, so I'm just familiar with their standard news coverage, which is definitely left-slanted.

Re: Big cuts coming for CNN+ after slow start

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Post by sfblah » Thu, Apr 14, 2022, 5:38 PM UTC

downrightmike wrote: post #17

sfblah wrote: post #7

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My take on this was it was just a clone of the Fox News pay service. The CNN one would just be from a left-leaning perspective or some such. I bet if they market it better, it will do OK.

Then they've missed the mark, because they aren't left, just center.

I don't know about the leanings of CNN+, since I don't pay for it. I do know that Don Lemon and (former host) Chris Cuomo are obviously slanted left. I don't know if there's an objective way to measure this, so I just look at my own reactions, as I know I'm a moderate (my most recent presidential votes were Biden, Clinton, Romney, Obama, Bush; and I support about half of each party's political platform -- I'm pro-choice, pro-nuclear, anti-gun, anti-woke).

Re: Big cuts coming for CNN+ after slow start

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Post by UberFly » Tue, Apr 19, 2022, 6:46 PM UTC

weq wrote: post #75

UberFly wrote: post #58

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"If I wanted a news source that would make me live in perpetual fear I'd go to Fox." You could literally pick any of them to get your daily allowance of fear. They all lead and follow with some form of bloody hook to get the echo chamber reverberating.

I stopped watching the news PRE-covid! Actually, TV, i turned it all off... because? the power the media has in influencing dumb people. I got sick of it after the last eelection. Turning off is the only way. Never felt happier. I recommend it to everyone. I crowd source my news from friends.

I am exactly the same way. Not 100% cut off, maybe 90% cut off. Also, if it's important enough I hear about it any way.