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Let's talk about CNN changing....

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Belle of the Ranch

Society & Culture

4.91K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Let's talk about CNN changing....

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0:00.0

Well, howdy there internet people, Litzboo again.

0:03.0

So today we're going to talk about some leadership changes at CNN

0:07.0

and what happened, what's likely to occur in the future,

0:12.0

and how CNN, if they chose could continue along the same

0:17.0

route if they still want to try to capture that right-wing audience.

0:23.4

Okay, so what happened?

0:26.8

Chris Lick, chair and CEO over there at CNN, out, gone. In the interim, there will be a leadership team that will make decisions.

0:37.0

The departure is widely seen as being a result of plunging ratings, a less than happy staff, a perceived

0:50.4

a lack of trust among viewers a well let's just call it an unflattering article

0:57.6

from the Atlantic and then of course the Trunk Town Hall which in my opinion is really what set all of this in motion.

1:07.0

CNN, it's been a liberal like mainstay for a long time and they are trying to move to the right.

1:17.9

That's the perception.

1:21.1

Whether or not the new leadership team is going to continue to try that is it's debatable.

1:28.6

My guess is they're going to still attempt to move right, but they will try to be a little bit more subtle

1:37.1

about it. I don't know how effective they're going to be at that.

1:45.2

The alternative would be that they're going to

1:50.4

still go down the same path and try to capture an audience that wants nothing to do with them

1:58.0

and maintain the audience that they had.

2:02.0

That's a really hard needle to thread when you are talking

2:07.7

about, when you're talking about a very polarized country and a base that CNN appears to be trying to capture that isn't actually accustomed to news reporting. They're accustomed to people playing into their own biases.

2:27.0

CNN will be unable to capture that audience without losing the audience that it had for decades.

2:37.0

So that's where it sits now on the off chance that the leadership team does want to

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