{"id":1450540,"date":"2022-04-22T14:58:06","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T18:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1450540"},"modified":"2022-04-22T14:58:19","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T18:58:19","slug":"10-monumental-failures-that-lasted-longer-than-cnn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/10-monumental-failures-that-lasted-longer-than-cnn\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Monumental Failures That Lasted Longer Than CNN+"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/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%2F10-monumental-failures-that-lasted-longer-than-cnn%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=1450540&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\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/04\/Cnn-graphic.png?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>CNN+ will soon be dead and gone, scheduled to be buried on April 30 after only a month on the market. To help put in perspective how much of a monumental failure this $300 million endeavor is,\u00a0<\/span><span>we\u2019ve put together a list of other infamous failures in American culture that lasted longer than the soon-to-be-defunct streaming service.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>At this point \u2014 two sentences into the article \u2014 you might find yourself asking, \u201cWhat is CNN+ and why have I never heard of it?\u201d Well, the short answer is that it wasn\u2019t for you. It was for Americans who watched CNN and wanted more of it and were willing to shell out extra cash to do so. Much to the network\u2019s dismay, it turns out there just aren\u2019t many people who fit that category.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>On Thursday, CNN\u2019s Brian Stelter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brianstelter\/status\/1517170287435001858?s=20&#038;t=pn8hph_WNEuQgBH0d1AnwQ\">announced<\/a>, \u201cBreaking: CNN+, the streaming service that was hyped as one of the most significant developments in the history of CNN, will shut down on April 30, just one month after it launched.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Of course, CNN was the one doing most of that hyping. Everyone else was scratching their heads wondering who greenlit such a terrible idea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>There have been other terrible ideas in pop culture, but even these ideas seem better than the streaming service when placed side-by-side. We put together 10 proverbial trainwrecks that lasted longer than CNN+, in no particular order.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>New Coke \u2013 79 Days<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cTo hear some tell it, April 23, 1985, was a day that will live in marketing infamy,\u201d so <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coca-colacompany.com\/company\/history\/the-story-of-one-of-the-most-memorable-marketing-blunders-ever\">said<\/a> Coca-Cola\u2019s own website.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>That was the day that \u201cNew Coke\u201d launched an updated formula for the first time in 99 years. It was a disaster. Soda drinkers everywhere hated the darned thing and wanted the old Coke recipe back. According to the company, \u201cBy June 1985, The Coca-Cola Company was getting 1,500 calls a day on its consumer hotline, compared with 400 a day before the taste change.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The old recipe was only shelved for 79 days and then came back in July 1985.\u00a0 The \u201cNew Coke\u201d product actually hung around much longer than that. It was renamed \u201cCoke II\u201d in 1990, and then officially discontinued in 2002<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Mike Bloomberg\u2019s Presidential Campaign \u2014 100 Days<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>The former New York City mayor launched his campaign for the 2020 Democratic presidential nominee on November 24, 2019. On March\u00a0 4, 2020, he ended his hunt for the presidency. The man spent $1 billion on his campaign and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KN18WrdwZBQ\">touted things<\/a> like<\/span><span>\u201cBig Gay Ice Cream\u201d in the process. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>ABC News <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mike-bloomberg-spent-billion-month-presidential-campaign-filing\/story?id=70252435\">added<\/a> that \u201che won just 55 delegates in the primary, and only one contest, in American Samoa, spending roughly $18 million per delegate.\u201d Ouch.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Tom Brady\u2019s Retirement \u2014 40 Days<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>The greatest quarterback of all time s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-tom-brady-announces-hell-return-to-tampa-bay-for-a-23rd-nfl-season\">pent just 40 days retired<\/a>. Can you really call that a retirement?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Anybody even slightly paying attention recognized that Brady, who launched a clothing line during his time away from the National Football League, looked so darned depressed anytime he was hawking his new pair of pants on Instagram. Between that, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/tom-brady-to-star-in-road-trip-comedy-movie-with-lily-tomlin-jane-fonda-rita-moreno-and-sally-field-report\">movie that he was producing with a bunch of aging lefties<\/a> portraying lifelong Patriots fans, nothing about his time away from the field made sense. Also, he was coming off one of his best seasons ever.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>His retirement officially lasted from February 1, 2022, to March 13, 2022. He\u2019ll be back this fall, pursuing his eighth Super Bowl trophy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Actually, come to think of it, Brady has spent twice as long participating in Super Bowl week preparation and media days\u00a0 \u2014 10 weeks \u2014 than the entire lifespan of\u00a0 CNN+ will end up being.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Kim Kardashian\u2019s Marriage To Kris Humphries \u2014 72 Days<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>They say true love never dies, so maybe this is still going on and we just don\u2019t know it. Kim Kardashian, a woman famous for making an adult film with a rapper that was subsequently leaked to the public, married NBA player Kris Humphries in August 2011. Seventy-two days later in October, she filed for divorce.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Given the celebrity status of the couple, the pair\u2019s marriage is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/article-2715420\/Kim-Kardashians-marriage-Kanye-West-survives-73-days-24-hours-longer-union-Kris-Humphries.html\">often used as the barometer<\/a> for failure. That should give you a sense of historic CNN+\u2019s downfall is in American culture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>The XFL \u2014 87 Real Days Of In Season Play (Maybe More To Come)<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>In 2018, Vince McMahon refounded the XFL \u2014 America\u2019s newest football league \u2014 for a spring season featuring former NFL stars and young up-and-comers. It had different rules, was exciting, and was in eight cities around the country. The gameplay <a href=\"https:\/\/dcist.com\/story\/20\/04\/10\/goodbye-xfl-we-hardly-knew-you\/\">launched<\/a> on January 18, 2020, and was just getting started before COVID-19 hit. After five weeks of play, they suspended the inaugural season. On April 13, the league filed for bankruptcy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Fear not, as the league is reportedly going to make a comeback in 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Kamala Harris\u2019 Presidential Campaign \u2014 317 Days<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>On January 27, 2019, the California senator announced her candidacy for the Democratic nomination. Her campaign didn\u2019t even make it to the Iowa caucuses in 2020. She <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/campaign-chronicles\/kamala-harris-early-exit-from-the-presidential-campaign\">ended<\/a>\u00a0things on December 3, 2019, after becoming a bottom feeder in virtually every poll.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Despite accusing then-candidate Joe Biden of enacting racist policies against her as a little girl, and other barbed jabs at the frontrunner, she somehow wound up as Biden\u2019s running mate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Now, she\u2019s one heartbeat away from the presidency. In the words of her boss, \u201cC\u2019mon, man.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>15 Days To Slow The Spread \u2014 Two Years and Counting<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Not much can be said that hasn\u2019t already been said. Starting with President Donald J. Trump and Dr. Anthony Fauci on <a href=\"https:\/\/trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov\/articles\/15-days-slow-spread\/\">March 16,<\/a> elected officials and health \u201cexperts\u201d told all of America that we needed to lock the country down for 15 days to slow the spread of COVID-19 while instituting other public health measures. Here we are, more than two years later and it seems like we\u2019re still trapped in those 15 days. The Biden administration is now suing to retain the right to force Americans to wear masks on public transportation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Let\u2019s not linger here much longer or a member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=Branch%20Covidian\">Branch Covidians<\/a> will appear out of nowhere tell us to put a mask on our faces.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>CNN\u2019s Coverage of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 \u2014 At Least 39 Days<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>The day that Malaysian Airlines flight 370 disappeared was like Christmas for CNN. They covered the event non-stop and the reporting was so bad that \u2014 as The Intelligencer<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/2014\/04\/cnns-9-most-deplorable-flight-370-moments.html\"> <span>documented<\/span><\/a><span> at the time \u2014 for at least 39 days straight, the network ran dozens, if not hundreds, of minutes of coverage. Folks like CNN\u2019s Don Lemon speculated that something supernatural may have occurred and also pondered whether or not the plane entered into a black hole. Enlightening stuff, Don. Nine of the most embarrassing moments from that coverage can be read<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/2014\/04\/cnns-9-most-deplorable-flight-370-moments.html\"> <span>here<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Crystal Pepsi \u2013 Two Years<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>In 1993, the Pepsi Cola company wanted to try something new, something different. They introduced a clear version of Pepsi. The Conversation <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/enabling-innovation-lessons-from-crystal-pepsi-84967\">reported<\/a> that the product was launched in America \u201cwith a Super Bowl commercial claiming: \u2018You\u2019ve never seen a taste like this\u2026&#8217;\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Which was accurate, but consumers couldn\u2019t \u201csee\u201d why the clear drink was necessary in the first place. Unlike Coke, Pepsi didn\u2019t completely get rid of the original recipe, but the gimmick failed to ever take off. Crystal Pepsi was discontinued in 1994.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>M.C. Hammer\u2019s Parachute Pants \u2014 22 years<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>The exact date of when \u201cparachute pants\u201d were created is hard to pin down. Mental Floss <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mentalfloss.com\/article\/93824\/brief-history-mc-hammers-pants\">reported<\/a> that a thousand years ago, women wore baggy, oversized pants in India and Turkey. The version of clothing that most readers are probably familiar with \u2014 rapper M.C. Hammer\u2019s pants \u2014 was more likely created in the late 1800s. Variations of them were passed down, but eventually, the rapper used them in his concerts because he liked the way the baggy pants accentuated his dance moves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>M.C. Hammer actually hates the word \u201cparachute\u201d pants and insists that they are called \u201cHammer pants.\u201d He debuted them in a 1990 music video, for his hit song \u201cU Can\u2019t Touch This.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>To this day, you can still see some people living the glory days of the early 90s rocking those pants as they sling a boombox over their head blaring, \u201cStop! Hammer time!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>And now we get to add CNN+ to this list. After 32 days, it officially will shut down. May its name forever be a cultural reference In memoriam, please enjoy this video of other disastrous CNN coverage put together by The Daily Wire:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The most busted name in news <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7aGdmys1cJ\">pic.twitter.com\/7aGdmys1cJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDailyWire\/status\/1517178557084147715?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 21, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN+ will soon be dead and gone, scheduled to be buried on April 30 after only a month on the market. 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