These Tweets Are the Eulogy CNN Plus Deserved and We All Needed; CNN+ Employees React to Streaming Platform’s Chaotic End
After a spectacularly failed run of only 23 days, the streaming service that launched because someone at CNN was convinced Americans wanted to hear more of the likes of Brian Stelter and Chris Wallace has come to an awkward end.
As The Federalist’s own Books Editor Mark Hemingway noted, you don’t have to be happy about ordinary workers losing their jobs to recognize that the higher-ups at CNN and in the rest of the corporate media have been working overtime to deserve the frustration people feel about their propaganda, and to call out the company’s ridiculous lack of self-awareness that led to the demise of CNN Plus. In that vein, here are some of the best reactions on Twitter today to CNN’s latest embarrassment.
Some pointed to CNN’s projections of a “long run of success” for the failed project as yet another example of the network’s lies.
You can’t trust anything that CNN says. Literally nothing. pic.twitter.com/uvxZrBN7Xe
— Arthur Schwartz (@ArthurSchwartz) April 21, 2022
Things that lasted longer than CNN+ pic.twitter.com/FXQk0Cevl6
— Erin Perrine (@ErinMPerrine) April 21, 2022
CNN+ didn’t even last as long as Jeffrey Toobin during a Zoom meeting
— Jordan Chamberlain (@jordylancaster) April 21, 2022
Things that lasted longer than CNN+:
– Quibi
– Tom Brady's retirement
– Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries' marriage
– The war in Grenada
– Kony 2012
– William Henry Harrison's presidency
– The time it takes to watch every episode of Game of Thrones
– The lifespan of a Dragonfly— Greg Price (@greg_price11) April 21, 2022
(Read more from “These Tweets Are the Eulogy CNN Plus Deserved and We All Needed” HERE)
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CNN+ Employees React to Streaming Platform’s Chaotic End
By Townhall. The unceremonious death of CNN+ this week put the fledgling steaming platform out of its misery after a period time that didn’t surpass the length of, among other things, Kim Kardashian’s marriage to Kris Humphries, has unleashed renewed chaos within CNN.
The “most trusted” name in news has had a rough go of things in recent months, plagued by scandals, a parent company merger that upended the network’s plans, lagging viewership, and a new boss. The launch and quick end to CNN+ has a broader impact than most immediately think of — it’s not just the hosts who lost a platform and who will be fine in the long run, it’s the staff hired as part of CNN’s investment of hundreds of millions of dollars to launch the streaming platform who now bear the brunt of CNN’s incompetence.
According to Axios, “About 350 of the 700 people that work for CNN+ will be laid off with pay and benefits for the next 90 days” and “any employee that doesn’t find a new role with the network will be granted at least six months’ severance.” Reactions within CNN are, predictably, not great.
“This is f***ing crazy, it is nuts,” a CNN insider told The New York Post. Newly out of work CNN+ employees are “aghast and furious” that their leadership could muck things up so badly.
As The Post explains, “Network insiders were horrified to learn that all junior staffers at the streaming service were let go. The roughly 300 staffers were offered six months’ severance as well as first dibs on job opportunities within CNN, according to sources.” Why someone would choose to work at CNN+ in the first place is a head-scratcher, but it seems unlikely that many would want to stick around in another department at CNN given the network’s disastrous handling of its streaming platform. (Read more from “CNN+ Employees React to Streaming Platform’s Chaotic End” HERE)
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