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CNN retrenching?
« on: November 13, 2021, 08:50:54 AM »
This is only being reported on conservative news sites so far, but it would be glorious if it were true.

https://ussanews.com/cnn-to-reportedly-fire-good-number-of-on-air-talent-staff-in-major-shakeup/
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Re: CNN retrenching?
« Reply #1 on: November 13, 2021, 09:01:27 AM »
Maybe Soros cut off his money because CNN wasn't anti-American enough
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Re: CNN retrenching?
« Reply #2 on: November 13, 2021, 09:06:50 AM »
I can see them bring a bunch of people over from MSNBC.
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Re: CNN retrenching?
« Reply #3 on: November 13, 2021, 09:24:35 AM »
They're going to fire a "good number" of on-air talent staff . . .

Based on what I've seen of them lately, a "good number" would be 100%.

Go woke, go broke.

(Nah . . . people aren't watching, because, well, they're racist. They're White supremacists, too. Including the Black and Brown people.)
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Re: CNN retrenching?
« Reply #4 on: November 13, 2021, 09:42:41 AM »

I doubt that the replacement "talent" will be an improvement.
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Re: CNN retrenching?
« Reply #5 on: November 13, 2021, 09:47:35 AM »
It's unbelievable to me that spending 90% of their airtime talking about Fox News hasn't been a grand success for them.
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Re: CNN retrenching?
« Reply #6 on: November 13, 2021, 10:03:06 AM »
Allegedly they're going to go back to the all news format that they had when they originally started.

Hell, they were my absolute go to for news for many years. They didn't have an overt political stance and employed some top notch people.

Peter Arnett and Bernie Shaw's reporting from Baghdad during the opening days of the First Gulf War was nothing short of incredible.
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Re: CNN retrenching?
« Reply #7 on: November 13, 2021, 11:05:47 AM »
I doubt that the replacement "talent" will be an improvement.

Obviously the old guard weren't far enough to the left.
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Re: CNN retrenching?
« Reply #8 on: November 13, 2021, 11:11:56 AM »
Good luck finding someone as good as Shaw was in this market .
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Re: CNN retrenching?
« Reply #9 on: November 13, 2021, 12:42:24 PM »
Obviously the old guard weren't far enough to the left.

Problem is, CNN can't get any farther left. MSNBC has cornered the market on true Communism in broadcasting talent.
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Re: CNN retrenching?
« Reply #10 on: November 13, 2021, 10:06:24 PM »
Problem is, CNN can't get any farther left. MSNBC has cornered the market on true Communism in broadcasting talent.
Hmmm . . . Vladimir Pozner is along in years (if he's still around at all) and Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf hasn't been seen for quite a while, either.


(Vladimir of course was the voice of Radio Moscow's Soviet propaganda broadcasts and we know the other guy more familiarly as Baghdad Bob.)
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Re: CNN retrenching?
« Reply #11 on: November 13, 2021, 10:34:17 PM »
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Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf hasn't been seen for quite a while, either.

So, you're telling he he didn't get a sex change operation, change his name to Jen Psaki and go to work for Biden?
I coulda sworn it was him.
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Re: CNN retrenching?
« Reply #12 on: November 14, 2021, 10:45:05 AM »
I seem recall something about him becoming a teacher.
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Re: CNN retrenching?
« Reply #13 on: November 14, 2021, 11:20:58 AM »
So, you're telling he he didn't get a sex change operation, change his name to Jen Psaki and go to work for Biden?
I coulda sworn it was him.
I think his daughter is the NBC reporterette who came up with "Let's Go Brandon" to try and cover up what the crowd was actually chanting at a NASCAR race.
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Re: CNN retrenching?
« Reply #14 on: November 14, 2021, 03:14:38 PM »
They will do straight "unbiased" news with all leftist, Democrat, presuppositions and framing.

This is, believe it our not, worse than the obvious dumpster fire that now is CNN.

All of the NPC's will immediately re-adopt CNN as the Fair and Balanced straight "unbiased" news, mostly because most people are idiots.


 
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