CNN was taken over by Warner Brothers Discovery merger. That cannot be good for liberal interests and it has proven not to be. When wealthy power brokers don’t like what they hear, they buy the media and transform it.
That is what happened to National Geographic Magazine. Because of the articles on global warming and the damning pictures that were on display for everyone to see, it had to be stopped. So National Geographic Magazine was taken over and its staff was either let go or they left. Since then this magazine of geography and scientific discovery has turned into a magazine for corporate scientific interests and religious mythology.
The takeover of CNN will prove to be the demise of a trusted source of honest news that is not seeking to short sheet liberal viewers and gloss over lies.
Layoffs and firings have occurred already, and more are being promised. Jeff Zucker is gone. Brian Stelter left as has Joe Concha. The network’s chairman and CEO Chris Licht has stated that the blood bath is not over. Along with John Malone, the powers that be are seeking to shift CNN away from any left leaning interests (and I dare say honesty).
The firing of Joe Concha has Fox absolutely giddy. USSA News is excitedly hoping for the layoffs of Don Lemon and Jim Acosta as are probably other far right extreme fake news media. As they slowly destroy their media competition they will become the only voice heard.
The most disgusting fact is that the layoffs are being made because of any criticism of the corporate propaganda arm of Fox News by CNN reporters, the media that brought us the lies of “the Steal”, the fake Covid disease, climate denials, and more guns for killing your children.
The prior article linked immediately above stated that both Fox News and MSNBC were faring better with ratings and yet the new leadership does not seek to follow MSNBC’s lead and call out lies and fascism when it is the new reality. Does the new leadership intend to transform CNN to be another FOX News, another Pinocchio news station?
So we are left with a choice of either plain vanilla CNN or a FOX News clone. It is time to show them that either would be the demise of CNN. It is time to organize a boycott of CNN. Even if we cannot get an honest CNN back by such pressure, it would be a lost cause anyway and we all need to pull the plug on CNN.