Why now?
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He’s going straight to CNN. Maybe we need to think harder about this man’s predilection for being associated with straight shooting news sources.
Apparently he gave a NYT interview where he claimed this was a principled stand against the denial of incontrovertible truth. And proceeded to use, as an example, anybody who questions whether Jan 6 should be honestly labeled an insurrection. I would suggest this man has simply chosen a different side in his consistent lifestyle of status seeking opportunism.
Education is extremely important.
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He’s going straight to CNN. Maybe we need to think harder about this man’s predilection for being associated with straight shooting news sources.
Well since he's been at Fox for nearly 20 years, it's fair to say he probably doesn't actually remember what it's like to work for a straight shooting news source.
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Chris is a registered Democrat. As long as he played it down the middle, hooray for him. In the last few years, he had become increasingly Leftward-tilted on his show and many of FOX's regular viewers thought he showed partiality to Biden during the Presidential debate.
Time for Chris to go.
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Perhaps this is a factor as well.
Investment and projections for CNN+ are expected to be cut dramatically in response to a low adoption rate, two sources tell Axios.
By the numbers: The news giant was initially planning to invest around $1 billion in the service over the next four years.
Hundreds of millions of dollars are expected to be cut from that original investment total.
To date, around $300 million has been spent on the subscription service, which includes a sizable marketing investment.
The new company's leadership team still has yet to decide the ultimate fate of CNN+. CNN's new boss, Chris Licht, will start May 1.
Details: CNN executives, with help from consulting firm McKinsey, originally expected to bring in around 2 million subscribers in the U.S. in the service's first year and 15-18 million after four years.They originally planned for the service to break even after four years.
Much of the subscriber opportunity executives see comes from international markets.
Sources say those subscriber expectations will need to be dramatically reduced if investment is cut.
Yes, but: In the U.S. yesterday, CNN launched on Roku, one of the largest smart TV companies in the country — which should help boost subscriber numbers.Between the lines: Hiring has been frozen at WarnerMedia for the past six weeks, and this has been felt at CNN.
One top executive notes that there is a sense of confusion internally as to why CNN didn’t push back the launch of CNN+ until after the Discovery merger.
The launch felt rushed in order to stake a claim over the service and the network's future ahead of the merger, the source said.
What's next: It's unclear whether top CNN+ executives, like CNN+ boss Andrew Morse, will continue to stay with the company if resources for the service are dramatically reduced or cut. -
CNN is obviously a "big name". But alot of people (like me) will see a new channel called CNN+ and not really understand how it is different from CNN.
So, I would say, "why bother to watch?"
