Yikes.
This is embarrassing.
CNN+, the streaming service that was hyped as one of the most signifiant developments in the history of CNN, will shut down on April 30, just one month after it launched. https://t.co/Y1XHnFaK3P
— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) April 21, 2022
PSA if you’re going to tweet something snarky about CNN+, hundreds of journalists and technicians who did nothing but work their tails off just had the rug pulled out from under them. So be kind.
— Ellie Smith (@elliekaysmith_) April 21, 2022
You don’t have to worry about me tweeting anything snarky, you stupid bitch.
I’m banned from Twitter.
Probably, people will be banned if they tweet something snarky about CNN, so no one is likely to do that. Criticizing CNN is a form of anti-Semitism, just like criticizing the Ukrainian government.
CNN’s brand-new streaming service, CNN+, is shutting down only a month after launch.
In a Thursday memo, the incoming CNN chief executive, Chris Licht, said the service would shut down at the end of April.
CNN+ launched when its parent was still part of AT&T. It combined with Discovery earlier this month in a new company, Warner Bros Discovery, under the Discovery chief executive, David Zaslav, who had his own vision for CNN and its Warner siblings.
Under AT&T, there were $100m in development costs and some 500 employees assigned to building out CNN+. The service had attracted big names for its lineup, from the former Fox anchor Chris Wallace to food-media star Alison Roman, as part of the company’s effort to appeal to younger people with a streaming news service as cable news audiences age.
In his memo, Licht said consumers wanted “simplicity and an all-in service” rather than “standalone offerings”.
Discovery had previously suggested that it wanted to merge the new company’s separate streaming services, which include Discovery+ and HBO Max, into a single app.
Licht said some CNN+ content will wind up on other company networks, and the streaming service’s employees will get opportunities to apply for jobs elsewhere inside Warner Bros Discovery.
Meanwhile, Tucker Carlson is single-handedly making Fox News hundreds of millions of dollars with their streaming service.
Really, you probably could have gotten everyone to go along with this bizarro world Judeo-anal global warming democracy stuff – it just would have taken about 20 years longer than these people were willing to wait.
Now, you’re seeing a backlash.
It’s really the rush that killed the entire project. Feminism was going to destroy Russia in less than 20 years, but they couldn’t wait, so they started a war, which is allowing conservative forces to rally the nation around the flag and the church.
It’s not clear why they were in such a rush.
Lmao good riddance. Just another propaganda machine
— taengkomo (@xmang39) April 21, 2022
Go Woke go Broke 🤷♂️
— Money Printer go Brrr (@brrr_money) April 21, 2022
lmao
— pstN (@pstncrypto) April 21, 2022
Who would have guessed people don’t want to pay money to be brainwashed by liberal propaganda…
— TheWealthCoach (@IndexandETFs) April 21, 2022
Imagine paying to watch CNN
— Fintwit (@fintwit_news) April 21, 2022