More Like CNN Minus, Amirite?

"Doomed"

A lot of people have been signing up for streaming services to watch shows about superheroes and cowboys and starship captains and whatnot. Journalists believe they’re even more fascinating and heroic than those guys, so they assumed CNN+ would be a big hit.

It hasn’t turned out that way. CNN+ only has around 10,000 daily viewers, which is smaller than my tiny Indiana hometown. More people speak Esperanto than watch CNN+.

Nobody wants what CNN is selling. Only a few hundred thousand Americans watch it on our cable packages, so why would we shell out even more dough to get the same garbage on demand? Who wants to watch an ambulatory potato wheeze on and on about how vitally important his job is? Why pay extra for a network that only breaks real news when its on-air staffers get caught floggin’ the dolphin on a Zoom call, or helping a state governor lie about the women he’s groped?