This is not good. This headline is The New York TimesThe following week’s events were:
The CNN+ Streaming Service will be shut down for weeks after its launch
CNN’s major investment, which poached anchors of high-profile names and held a celebratory launch party, is abruptly ended by a new corporate leadership group.
It began like this:
CNN celebrities gathered on the 101st Floor of Midtown Manhattan’s Skyscraper at sunset, Monday March 31, to celebrate the launch CNN+, the streaming platform that would take CNN into the digital age.
Ethan Hawke directed a CNN+ film. Guests ate miniature lobster rolls, and marveled at the breathtaking views of New York City.
It took three weeks for CNN’s new owners to bring them down to earth.
Warner Bros. made a shocking announcement that shocked the tech and media worlds. Discovery revealed on Thursday that CNN+ will be shutting down abruptly on April 30. “While today’s decision is incredibly difficult, it is the right one for the long-term success of CNN,” Chris Licht, the network’s incoming president, told staff.
CNN+’s crash can only be explained if one is engulfed in the illusion of reality that is liberal media.
There can be no better example of that mindset than that exhibited by Chris Wallace, the CNN+ “get” who departed in a huff from Fox News. How did Wallace quit Fox? Here’s what Wallace said during an interview to The Associated Press Times reporter Michael Grynbaum: “I just no longer felt comfortable with the programming at Fox.”
Why?
“I’m fine with opinion: conservative opinion, liberal opinion,” Mr. Wallace said in his first extensive interview about his decision to leave. “But when people start to question the truth — Who won the 2020 election? Did Jan. 6, 2019 represent an insurrection — I found that unsustainable.”
What should you do?
It would be obvious, first of all that there will always be differing opinions about the current events on any television network. As a CNN contributor, I know there are people with whom my views were not shared. As the French like to say, c’est la vie – that’s life.
The real problem here is that Wallace lives in the liberal media bubble – and to be on a network with others who not only do not live in that bubble but challenge the Left’s so-called “truths” finally was just to much. “Unsustainable” in Wallace’s words.
Reread his words. “But when people start to question the truth — Who won the 2020 election? Did Jan. 6, 2019 represent an insurrection — I found that unsustainable.”
The fact that there are plenty of Americans who question Wallace’s “truth” – the results of the 2020 election – is not simply real world reality. It is a fact that many serious movies, books, articles and articles have appeared or are on the verge of appearing that specifically question those results.
Rather than blithely dismiss as “unsustainable” the issue of who won the 2020 election, a serious journalist with his own television show on CNN+ would invite, say, The Federalist’s editor Mollie Hemingway on his new CNN+ show and grill her about her book Rigged: How Big Tech and the Media Seize Our Elections.
Mollie Hemingway is a journalist’s journalist. Shemingway’s book takes a serious and thorough look at 2020 elections, the major shenanigans that followed, and, thus, the ability to rig an election. Mollie would have made a great Wallace conversation partner. This would have made for great TV! Instead, he dismissed the 2020 argument outright.
Ditto he should have invited Dave Bossie of Citizen’s United on his new show. Citizens United has released a new film – again a seriously detailed look at 2020 – titled Rigged: Donald Trump was defeated by the plot devised and funded by Zuckerberg.
It is a serious film with serious actors appearing to talk about the election. That would include former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Texas Senator Ted Cruz, former Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway, Ohio’s former Secretary of State Ken Blackwell and many more. The group was there to talk about Mark Zuckerberg’s role in 2020. This basically charges Zuckerberg with purchasing the election.
Now that would have made good television and streaming for CNN+ – a Wallace sit down with each of them – or even both together – to discuss or challenge their book and films.
But no go. You’ve never thought of it. Why? Doubtless because Wallace lives in that liberal media bubble and he has simply decided that any challenge to his own views on the election – his personal “truth” – is “unsustainable.”
CNN+ crashed, which is what ultimately crashed CNN+. CNN+ was a liberal network that crashed its own ratings. I was told repeatedly that Kayleigh McEnany and I were big contributors to CNN’s ratings in 2016, 2017 and 2018. Why? Because it was fun to challenge the assumptions of colleagues. This made great television.
However, the far-left organizations demanded that CNN adhere to liberal media standards and eliminate us and all other conservatives. CNN suffered the consequences of this decision. CNN+ has now been crashed, just days after its launch.
Now, the question is, based on the CNN+ disaster, whether CNN’s brand is now so damaged that it cannot survive.
Chris Wallace, may I borrow? The truth may well be that the far-left politics of CNN has in fact made not only CNN+ but CNN itself “unsustainable.”
Ted Turner is shaking his head, even though he knows he has lost his network. Turner made it his mission to make CNN the best news network.
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