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Title: CNN to cut back on...well, news.
Post by: Josephus on August 13, 2012, 12:52:27 PM
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/08/cnn-to-save-itself-by-featuring-less-news.html?mid=twitter_dailyintel
Title: Re: CNN to cut back on...well, news.
Post by: Ed Anger on August 13, 2012, 12:54:03 PM
If they ditch that dumb shit over-emoting Brooke Baldwin, I'd be happy.
Title: Re: CNN to cut back on...well, news.
Post by: MadImmortalMan on August 13, 2012, 12:57:11 PM
They will go out of business soon if they don't do something different.
Title: Re: CNN to cut back on...well, news.
Post by: DGuller on August 13, 2012, 01:08:21 PM
 :lmfao:  Hopefully this is the start of the terminal decline of 24 hour news network, and not just a punishment for trying to be non-partisan.  News networks need to go for the sake of our democracy.
Title: Re: CNN to cut back on...well, news.
Post by: Strix on August 13, 2012, 03:18:45 PM
If MTV has stopped playing music why shouldn't CNN stop showing news?  :wacko:
Title: Re: CNN to cut back on...well, news.
Post by: Viking on August 13, 2012, 03:34:41 PM
Quote from: Strix on August 13, 2012, 03:18:45 PM
If MTV has stopped playing music why shouldn't CNN stop showing news?  :wacko:

meh it's just the same relationship the history channel has to history, the sci-fi... sorry syfy channel has to science fiction and the discovery channel has to anything worth discovering.
Title: Re: CNN to cut back on...well, news.
Post by: garbon on August 13, 2012, 04:03:22 PM
TLC to learning. :D
Title: Re: CNN to cut back on...well, news.
Post by: Eddie Teach on August 13, 2012, 04:08:51 PM
AMC to classic movies. "Catwoman"  :rolleyes:
Title: Re: CNN to cut back on...well, news.
Post by: Viking on August 13, 2012, 04:13:01 PM
Oh well, at least Al-Jazeera is actually on The Island.  :menace:
Title: Re: CNN to cut back on...well, news.
Post by: Ed Anger on August 13, 2012, 04:39:02 PM
Quote from: garbon on August 13, 2012, 04:03:22 PM
TLC to learning. :D

You seen that new Honey Boo Boo show?

My reaction:

(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FJll7J.jpg&hash=6dd4276e2478d8c74386816ad22f590a99265f6b)
Title: Re: CNN to cut back on...well, news.
Post by: garbon on August 13, 2012, 04:42:25 PM
I did see the preview. :D
Title: Re: CNN to cut back on...well, news.
Post by: KRonn on August 13, 2012, 07:51:46 PM
Hmm, I like CNN. I've been surprised that it gets so few viewers. It seems the more middle ground between Fox and MSNBC. But I guess it could work, add different type shows to go along with their news broadcasts. We don't need 24/7 news when there's nothing new to report. Gets tiring seeing some of the stuff that the stations put on. But I probably won't watch reality type shows on CNN, as I watch for the news.
Title: Re: CNN to cut back on...well, news.
Post by: The Minsky Moment on August 13, 2012, 09:31:36 PM
CNN ain't great but I agree with KRonn mostly - at least they are trying long after the others have given up.  So it's sad to see they are giving up as well, and going in a direction that appears even less edifying than what MSNBC or Fox are doing.
Title: Re: CNN to cut back on...well, news.
Post by: garbon on August 13, 2012, 09:46:21 PM
We still have C-SPAN :)

Actually I just saw C-SPAN has its archives online and I found when my mother was on it - with her perm!
Title: Re: CNN to cut back on...well, news.
Post by: katmai on August 13, 2012, 11:14:26 PM
What the heck was she on for?
Title: Re: CNN to cut back on...well, news.
Post by: garbon on August 13, 2012, 11:42:00 PM
As pharma discussing advances to protect hospital workers from AIDS.
Title: Re: CNN to cut back on...well, news.
Post by: garbon on August 14, 2012, 09:33:20 AM
I just showed my mother the video of herself (1988) and she was dying. She was also amazed how skinny she was given that she'd just recently given birth to her second child. :D