CNN rushed to scandalize new reporting on classified documents found at former Biden office

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152. Your unsupported opinions are meaningless in the real world and ignoring facts is sad

I do not watch CNN because I do NOT want to be poorly informed. If you like being poorly informed, that is your choice.

Laypersons/non-debaters are amusing when they try to advance arguments with no facts or authority to support their uniformed or lay opinions. The rules of evidence has some fun rules on the use of lay or non-expert opinions in court. Such opinions are not admissible and would never get before a fact finder/jury. Legal briefs and law review/journal articles cite authority for all claims because that is what is required in the real world.

There are a ton of examples of CNN moving to the right. Firing John Harwood, canceling Reliable Sources, CNN spending 4 times on the coverage of the Biden document issue compared to even Fox News, CNN finding a lawyer to agree with the legal reasoning of Judge Cannon, CNN having Maggie Haberman on to attack Biden are simply some of the examples. Go re-read the VOX article cited in this thread. The fact that you do not like these examples is meaningless and just shows that you are unable to defend your claims with facts.

I was amused to see that Media Matters is concerned about one possible reason why Malone and Licht are turning CNN into a clone of Fox. CNN is not a good fit for Discovery and the efforts to turn CNN into a Fox clone would facilitate a sale of CNN to Murdoch.

Link to tweet

https://www.mediaite.com/news/watch-media-matters-chief-terrified-new-cnn-strategy-will-lead-to-takeover-by-fox-news-mogul-rupert-murdoch/

President and CEO of Media Matters Angelo Carusone told SiriusXM host Dean Obeidallah he’s “terrified” the influence of new CNN chief Chris Licht will leave the network vulnerable to a takeover by Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch.

On Friday’s edition of The Dean Obeidallah Show, Carusone told the host that he’s rooting for CNN to succeed, but he feels the new direction will fail, and Murdoch will swoop in:

ANGELO CARUSONE: Thing I really am afraid of is that it is honesty that they sell to Rupert Murdoch. I’m terrified of this. It is super, it is his white whale and I think that it doesn’t fit into Discovery’s portfolio in a meaningful way. I’ve always been afraid of this, and the posture of making the platform more appealing, more attractive, more neutral, I think weakens it enough that they say, “Look, it’s just not worth it. We didn’t get the returns on investment. It hasn’t turned the corner yet.” You know, I don’t think they’re going to get the audience gains that they think they’re going to get, which is part of the strategy. And that’s a real problem, too. So at its core, I’m afraid that in the short term, we see some bad coverage out of them, some spots of bad coverage which actually have bigger harms when it comes from CNN. And then bigger… But longer term, I think that it actually weakens the business model of CNN enough that it makes them more susceptible to just being spun off. And that’s not great either.

DEAN OBEIDALLAH: That’s interesting, I never thought about that last one…

ANGELO CARUSONE: So I don’t think people realize how often Rupert Murdoch tries to buy CNN. It happens all the time. He did it and he made a really aggressive, year-long plus play in 2017 and a run at it in 2014. He’s made runs I did during the early 2000, and that matters because that’s how we got the Wall Street Journal. He tried to buy it half a dozen times before it, before he eventually convinced the Bancrofts, which were the owners of the Wall Street Journal, to sell it. So I don’t think it’s it’s insane or too far gone to say, nah, this guy doesn’t need to finance if he’s sitting on a mountain of cash that was supposed to be used and is earmarked for media acquisitions, they haven’t used it yet. It’s just I mean, there’s a mountain of cash. He doesn’t need the financing. He can pay for the deal in cash. He can overpay, which is what Rupert Murdoch always does. He always overpays, always, because he knows that it’s easier.

I was sad when Murdoch acquired the WSJ after so many unsuccessful tries.