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> A Discovery executive referring to CNN+ as "CNN minus" particularly rubbed people the wrong way Sorry, that's pretty funny. It seems like everyone outside of
by jaywalk 5y ago
> A Discovery executive referring to CNN+ as "CNN minus" particularly rubbed people the wrong way
Sorry, that's pretty funny. It seems like everyone outside of CNN could see that CNN+ was doomed to fail, but the Kool Aid was flowing freely inside.
- bombcar 5y agoIt literally WAS CNN- - it didn't even carry CNN, because they didn't want to fight the cable war.
- padobson 5y agoThis seems like it would happen a lot at corporations that deal in propaganda. Once you abandon truth as a value, how do you stop the culture in your content creation from infecting your business decisions? I guess Fox News has figured it out. I'd be curious to see more examples of both success and failure.
- bredren 5y agoI led a team that did very early work designing iPad apps for Discovery. We are talking iPad gen2. Back then the entire project was designed to appear like it was a serious look at investing in digital for the channel when the goal was actually to slow down the shift from linear cable subs to apps. It was bizarre then but today it looks like the bread and butter of traditional media company politics.
- krallja 5y agoI've been trying to get people to pronounce it as "positive," like a disease. "Yeah, I'm Disney positive. I was Apple positive, but got over it in February. Don't hardly know anyone with CNN positive."
- gsibble 5y agoAll CNN basically produces is Kool Aid so I'm not surprised they were all drunk on their own stuff.