{"id":1450219,"date":"2022-04-22T12:46:21","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T16:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1450219"},"modified":"2022-04-22T12:58:45","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T16:58:45","slug":"cnn-plus-falling-apart-after-one-month-is-a-symptom-of-the-networks-identity-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-plus-falling-apart-after-one-month-is-a-symptom-of-the-networks-identity-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN Plus Falling Apart After One Month Is A Symptom\u00a0Of The Network\u2019s Identity Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcnn-plus-falling-apart-after-one-month-is-a-symptom-of-the-networks-identity-crisis%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1450219&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Chris-Wallace.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>CNN\u2019s new streaming service, \u201cCNN +,\u201d will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/04\/21\/media\/cnn-shutting-down\/index.html\">shut down<\/a> on April 30 after a disastrous rollout in the number of subscriptions revealed little appetite for network content behind a paywall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe decision was made by new management after CNN\u2019s former parent company, WarnerMedia, merged with Discovery to form Warner Bros. Discovery,\u201d reported the network\u2019s own Brian Stelter and Oliver Darcy on Thursday. \u201cDavid Zaslav, the chief executive of Warner Bros. Discovery, has said that he wants to house all of the company\u2019s brands under one streaming service. Some CNN+ programming may eventually live on through that service.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Axios <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/discovery-cnn-plus-marketing-layoffs-jobs-b088c03c-b202-4756-8f5f-e64ee77b5095.html\">reported<\/a> on Wednesday that CNN and Discovery executives disagreed on the new platform\u2019s level of success. It had only signed up about 150,000 subscribers since its March 29 launch, a slow start to the more than 2 million the company hoped to reach by the year\u2019s end.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDiscovery executives are focused mostly on returning CNN to its journalistic core, a point Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav reiterated in a town hall last week,\u201d read Axios. \u201cThat includes less of a focus on primetime perspective programming, and more of a focus on hard, breaking news.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The streaming service\u2019s shutdown is the latest episode illustrating a network in disarray as it rebrands in the post-Trump-presidency era. After the turbulent exit of anchor Chris Cuomo, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/12\/01\/cnn-indefinitely-suspends-chris-cuomo-after-texts-prove-he-tried-to-shield-his-scandalous-brother\/\">terminated<\/a> over revelations that he used his primetime perch to protect his brother, the then-embattled governor of New York, the network has struggled to find a replacement for the 9 p.m. time slot. With Discovery wanting to pivot CNN to hard news coverage, it\u2019s unclear whether the primetime lineup will even remain personality-driven opinion, a model that\u2019s failed to compete with Fox News\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/markjoyella\/2022\/03\/29\/fox-news-makes-gains-in-1q-cable-news-ratings-while-cnn-msnbc-suffer-steep-declines\/?sh=702ae20d6935\">consistently high ratings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2022\/tv\/news\/cnn-chris-cuomo-brianna-keilar-jim-acosta-1235162755\/\">According<\/a> to Variety Magazine in late January, prominent CNN anchors said the network ought to embrace coverage of the Capitol riot from more than a year ago and the Jan. 6 Committee\u2019s ensuing political prosecution of those who staged a protest. The continuing investigation by Democratic lawmakers with Reps. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., and Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., who were both appointed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, has become the medium through which CNN has remained focused on former President Donald Trump after his White House tenure.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Wallace left his own prestigious job as anchor of Fox News\u2019 flagship Sunday program to join CNN\u2019s new failed subscription service in part over Fox\u2019s coverage of the Jan. 6 turmoil, which diverged from legacy outlets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI found that unsustainable,\u201d Wallace <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/27\/business\/media\/chris-wallace-cnn-fox-news.html\">told<\/a> The New York Times in March, but his attempt to cap off a decades-long career by jumping ship at Fox for a gig with CNN Plus provided no more sustainability.<\/p>\n<p>CNN is having an identity crisis. After solidifying itself as purely anti-Trump, the network is at odds with the direction of new management after Jeff Zucker stepped down as president in February. The Jan. 6 Committee was <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/02\/08\/with-zucker-out-at-cnn-jan-6-committee-hardest-hit\/\">hardest hit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Where the network will really go remains an open question, but CNN Plus\u2019s part in that future is nothing more than a $300 million blunder.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN\u2019s new streaming service, \u201cCNN +,\u201d will shut down on April 30 after a disastrous rollout in the number of subscriptions revealed little appetite for network content behind a paywall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":1898320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"CNN Plus Falling Apart After One Month Is A Symptom\u00a0Of The Network\u2019s Identity Crisis","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1450219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"CNN Plus Falling Apart After One Month Is A Symptom\u00a0Of The Network\u2019s Identity Crisis","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1450219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1898320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1450219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1450219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1450219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}