{"id":190971,"date":"2021-03-05T10:30:24","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T15:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=190971"},"modified":"2021-03-05T10:30:26","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T15:30:26","slug":"ceo-of-cnns-parent-company-says-covid-19-crisis-really-good-for-ratings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ceo-of-cnns-parent-company-says-covid-19-crisis-really-good-for-ratings\/","title":{"rendered":"CEO Of CNN\u2019s Parent Company Says COVID-19 Crisis \u2018Really Good For Ratings\u2019"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fceo-of-cnns-parent-company-says-covid-19-crisis-really-good-for-ratings%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=190971&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:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/cnn-2.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The CEO of CNN\u2019s parent company said Thursday that the COVID-19 pandemic has been \u201creally good for ratings,\u201d adding that wall-to-wall coverage won\u2019t be ending anytime soon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt turns out the pandemic is a pretty big part of the news cycle and that\u2019s not going away anytime soon,\u201d WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar said. \u201cIt turns out it\u2019s really good for ratings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CNN had cashed in on bashing former President Donald Trump for four years, but has flagged since President Joe Biden took office. While the network blamed Trump for hundreds of thousands of COVID deaths, it has not yet declared Biden responsible for the more than 122,000 deaths from the virus since he took office.<\/p>\n<p>Kilar\u2019s comments drew scorn on social media. The Wall Street Journal\u2018s Joe Flint compared the declaration to one made by former media mogul Les Moonves during the 2016 election, in which he said Trump\u2019s campaign for president \u201cmay not be good for America, but it\u2019s damn good for CBS.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCareful. That\u2019s awful close to Moonves line that Trump may be bad for U.S. but he\u2019s good for CBS,\u201d Flint wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>That drew a response from Kilar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI agree Joe. I would like nothing more than for this pandemic to be well behind us. I mean that with every fiber in my body. I wish I could go back and be more thoughtful about my communication,\u201d the CEO wrote.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I agree Joe. I would like nothing more than for this pandemic to be well behind us. I mean that with every fiber in my body. I wish I could go back and be more thoughtful about my communication.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jason Kilar (@jasonkilar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jasonkilar\/status\/1367465865076109312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 4, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThanks for responding and clarifying. Appreciate it,\u201d Flint wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHappy to. I am sorry for the sentence and for uttering it. My apologies. Thx for highlighting it and holding me accountable,\u201d Kilar wrote.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Happy to. I am sorry for the sentence and for uttering it. My apologies. Thx for highlighting it and holding me accountable.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jason Kilar (@jasonkilar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jasonkilar\/status\/1367468192889643009?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 4, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The pandemic was also good for Biden, according to a new book titled, \u201cLucky: How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency,\u201d by Jonathan Allen, a senior political analyst for NBC News, and Amie Parnes, a senior correspondent with The Hill.<\/p>\n<p>The book says Biden did almost everything wrong during his campaign, but because of the COVID-19 pandemic, he was able to \u201chide his biggest weakness, which is himself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden spent much of the campaign in his basement in Wilmington, Delaware, holding far fewer events than Trump.\u00a0One Biden aide told the authors that the strategy was tantamount to putting \u201cyour dumb uncle in the basement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And top Biden adviser Anita Dunn said that \u201cCovid was the best thing that happened to him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One Trump adviser told the authors that Team Biden \u201cused coronavirus as an excuse to keep him in the basement, and it was smart. Biden was able to hide his biggest weakness, which is himself. And he did it with an excuse that sounded responsible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Allen and Parnes write that Biden was able to overcome three early losses in the primaries and win the nomination because he was a safe choice, even though supporters were not enthusiastic about him.\u00a0Democrats \u201cweren\u2019t willing to take a chance\u201d on a newcomer who might not win against Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything else, he\u2019d gotten wrong. He\u2019d run a lousy campaign, flubbed debates, spent so much money on Iowa and New Hampshire that he teetered on the edge of insolvency, lost three straight states to start the primary, and allowed himself to be defined by his frailties,\u201d they write, noting that he ran on a \u201cbland message and a blank agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CEO of CNN\u2019s parent company said Thursday that the COVID-19 pandemic has been \u201creally good for ratings,\u201d adding that wall-to-wall coverage won\u2019t be ending anytime soon. \u201cIt turns out &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2274834,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/cnn-2.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"CEO Of CNN\u2019s Parent Company Says COVID-19 Crisis \u2018Really Good For Ratings\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/cnn-2.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"CEO Of CNN\u2019s Parent Company Says COVID-19 Crisis \u2018Really Good For Ratings\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190971","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2274834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}