I’ll point out these observations.
CNN was pure news and attracted viewers because it was raw news in the making. All of this sold until the mid-90s...when they started to bring in ‘experts’, run themes of the week, and started curious slants-of-news that didn’t make much sense.
Once the monopoly disappeared...they had to have a gimmick...which was mostly an international slant that never had a factual middle-ground. More ‘experts’ started to show up....foundation freaks who voiced their stated positions...and everyone acted like it was news, when it was really cheerleading.
This new CNN? When you stand back and gaze at it....it’s a gimmick to transform into a round-the-clock Sixty Minutes network. It’ll be like a modern age Time magazine....explaining in great detail, with experts and foundation freaks appearing. the audience numbers will slide up briefing by five percent, and then fall back to less than they are today. No one reads Time anymore, and no one is going to watch a digital version of Time.
CNN, for all practical purposes, is dying. They are getting into position to be failed, lower-priced, and some Chinese media company will buy them within three years for half the value of today. CNN will move it’s headquarters out of Atlanta, and into China by 2017. Long time CNN enthusiasts will ask what happened and why the fall from grace.
The simple answer? They could not report the news any longer. They lost their edge, their passion, and their neutral view on things.
my wake-up call on CNN was the first Gulf War and the whole Arnett fiasco. Don’t thin I watched much of it since and especially since Fox came around and then CNN did the Tailwind fiasco.
What is it with the networks’ desire to have people with British accents in the screen telling Americans how awful they are?