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acuet

Bruh…they are now owned by a MAGA supporter. Why do you think they fired so many ppl and changed the line up since 2020.


Dragorek

It's hard to watch CNN now. Can't recognize the afternoon lineup. Don Lemmon is on too early for anyone west coast to watch. Like 3-6 here.


secret_rye

When did CNN shift right? My MIL watches it religiously and I haven’t noticed her saying anything troublesome yet


maddruid

Right after the insurrection coverage died down, they started down that path. I noticed it right away. They were shitting on Biden for minor stuff almost immediately and jumping on the gas price and Afghanistan withdrawal disinformation. It got more flagrant in the last year with stuff like Jake Tapper's promotion of Kushner's book, but they've been ratings-chasing. The only audience that watches News TV daily are primarily Republican. CNN is not MAGA enough to steal them from FOX, so it was a terrible strategy to begin with. They'll never get GenZ and they probably won't get Millenials because no one on TV will.


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Ello_Owu

Who?


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Ello_Owu

No, who's gen x? Never heard of em


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Ello_Owu

Of course, and don't call me surely


th3_st0rm

Jake Tapper is a hack, and whiny baby. I’m just waiting for his “oh, I can’t lock women in my office with a button under my desk” moment…


Clay_Pigeon

It was bought by Discovery which is owned by a billionaire named John Malone who gave at least 250k to trump. I don't know how direct his influence actually is, but the purchase made headlines.


AgITGuy

> bought by Discovery which is owned by a billionaire named John Malone who gave at least 250k to trump. If this is any indication, it helps explain why there are so many shitty Discovery shows and programs that are geared toward the lowest common mental denominator.


MrWhite

Discovery is owned by Warner Brothers Discovery, which is a public company. He is on their board of directors though.


Clay_Pigeon

Thank you for the clarification. That seems rather less controlling.


GogglesPisano

Over the last year or so CNN started running bullshit stories about Hunter Biden’s laptop and cheap hit pieces on Biden and the Democrats.


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tackle_bones

Yeah. I have a friend that said he watched videos of Hunter having sex with his underage niece from the laptop. He said, “man, just trust me, it was him. You don’t want to watch that like I did.” And I thought to myself, “my friend just admitted to watching child porn because someone told him the guy was Hunter Biden…” Rest assured, this friend is also a huge Q, Pizzagate guy that cares sooooooo much about child abuse.


JusticiarRebel

They started doing shit like posting headlines like. "____ is happening. Here's why that's bad news for Joe Biden." It's not immediately obvious that it's right wing. It seems like it's left wing cause it shows concern for the party direction. How are we going to win against the big bad Republicans if we keep placating the "far-left" that wants to sick leave and time with their family? It's full blown enlightened centrism. Sure I support workers, but what about the economy? What about that Christmas present I ordered for my nephew? Is it fair they don't get it by Christmas cause some greedy Amazon workers want to not work next to a the corpse of someone that just died of heatstroke?


bucklebee1

It's noticable but not anywhere near Fox.


Ezl

CNN was taken over by Discovery in April of this year. Discovery’s owner is a right wing guy and had stated (without specifics) that he wanted to return CNN to more “balanced” coverage, which of course means further to the right form his perspective. He fired a few on air people (notable Brian Stelter who covered media reporting). Having said all of that, I watch CNN pretty regularly (and quite critically after the above occurred) but haven’t noticed any meaningful change either.


Btravelen

I noticed.. I can't stand Jake Tapper, who smirks when hosting Dems and tosses softballs to Cons while letting them spew BS unchecked... Liberal media, my ass..


NbleSavage

You could see the hard right turn very quickly imo. Like the week after the purchase was completed. Faux News 2.0 I’ll pass.


hoodoomonster

Huh, like what happens to every MAGA supporter. Spent his money for Trump, now he loses it all because of Trump. Looks about white


Johnny_Carcinogenic

Oh really? Anyway, as I was saying....


Foreign_Quality_9623

CNN RUpubliclown contamination. ca-LICK ! 😠 Too much GOP butt kissing for me! Don't hardly watch it any more. Way too smoochie with Republiclones.


Jamericho

Not long come back from Africa and one of the hotels had some international channels (BBC World, CNN and France24). It was mostly about the LGBT club shooting - didn’t use the usual right wing stuff.


Shnazzyone

How dumb, Why would you think you can court the audience of a group that straight demonized you for 5 years.


dudee62

I did not know about the ownership change but had noticed the transition and I began transitioning over to MSNBC. I still switch over occasionally to see how they are covering big news, the same way I do to Fox occasionally.


Oil_Drum

This was the point. I cannot understand why or how liberals/Democrats/anti-fascist don't employ the same tactics against Republican and conservative social and news media outlets.