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Opinionated hosts and guests is the only path to profitability for cable news. Most people read or listen to their news now; TV is for entertainment. CNN’s pro
by dc-programmer 4y ago
Opinionated hosts and guests is the only path to profitability for cable news. Most people read or listen to their news now; TV is for entertainment.
CNN’s problem is that their “personalities” are absolute snore-fests. Fox’s bread and butter are their hosts but they are doing fine for now (cable will die eventually). In the current post-ironic zeitgeist, audiences are drawn to more transgressive discourse. But Don Lemon can’t make hot takes when his audience is Deloitte managers and urban moms (also he’s terminally unfunny).
The left leaning media has become too safe and staid. I think that’s why left sympathetic people are drawn to the new “left” podcasts like Chapo Trap House
- 29athrowaway 4y agoThen they can call themselves political commentary, entertainment... not news. And sit in a sofa instead of a news room.
- dc-programmer 4y agoThey do have news segments. Every News org has news sections and opinion sections that are de-lineated. I’m not really a fan (they do have good investigative reporting sometimes) but acting like they are aberration does not make sense
- 29athrowaway 4y agoIt is the normalization of bad journalism. It is not more acceptable because it is normal.
- dc-programmer 4y agoThat’s a good point. On cable the distinction between news and opinion is definitely blurred as compared to a newspaper with a very clear editorial section