WB/Discovery Lays Off CNN's CFO & Suspends Marketing Spend I happened to see this: (Reuters) - Warner Bros Discovery has suspended all external marketing spend for its recently launched streaming service CNN+ and laid off CNN's finance chief Brad Ferrer, news website Axios reported https://www.axios.com/discovery-cnn...obs-b088c03c-b202-4756-8f5f-e64ee77b5095.html on Tuesday, citing sources familiar with the matter. I guess Chris Wallace, who jumped ship at Fox to go to CNN+, will be thinking about his next job. Also, is DNC mouthpiece Brian Stelter still employed by that dumpster fire of a network? I am assuming the CNN practice of paying/bribing airport officials to air CNN on their in-terminal television monitors has come to an end if it hasn't already happened. As for CNN+, how did anyone expect people to pay for it when almost nobody watches it for free?
CNN+ has become a joke, as many, if not most, of the websites and YouTube channels have more viewers and they are free.
I read somewhere else that WB/Discovery CEO David Zaslav said that they are focused mostly on returning CNN to its journalistic core. If that means attention to hard, breaking news instead of the soft, nuanced, editorialized agitprop they've been peddling for years; then that would be a good thing. I am thinking, though, that it will take some discipline to rein in news editors who want to rush to be first with a story without doing due diligence to see if it's true.or cover up true stories they don't like.
I don't have an issue with left wing stuff if it is in the "opinion" section. That is kinda what Fox does--the opinions aren't part of the news, and their news section is just about as liberal as the networks. My impression is MSNBC is ALL opinion and no real news. CNN presented opinion as news; that is the problem I have with them. Newspapers always had opinion sections separate and had an "Op Ed" section. Many years ago when it was a real newspaper, the Christian Science Monitor presented real news and when they addressed a political issue, they always had the opposing opinion in an adjacent column. I subscribed to them for years for that reason, but, alas, I believe they have followed the sheep to the dark side.