I can only hope they leak the details of the changes when it starts happening so everyone can know.
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They need to start a CBC United States Service and Broadcast from Canada, mirroring the BBC German Service during the Nazi years in Germany.
This might be the last straw for a lot of them...
But they're all carrying a shit ton on their backs by now if they still work at CNN. If they had resigned with everyone for any of the last ethical meltdowns at the company we might have seen change.
They just kept it alive long enough for even more right leaning people to be hired and trained to do their own jobs.
We need to be more like the French where people strike and riot because their college roommate's second cousin may be slightly inconvenienced. With the understanding it works both ways.
If everyone waits till their personal line, there's never a critical mass.
Most people won't give a shit.
Easy. All should quit their jobs right now. All. Now.
Then set up a new broadcaster together
Seven current CNN employees who spoke to NBC News on Thursday night, hours after Netflix announced it would not try to match Paramount’s bid for WBD, expressed a combination of fear and concern. They described the mood inside the company as “shaken” and” depressing.”
Keep in mind this was less than three years ago:
Zaslav’s marching orders for Licht were to push CNN more toward the political middle. It makes some sense — Fox News is a right-wing propaganda machine; MSNBC is basically the same thing for the left. You’d think there would be a fair amount of room right down the center.
And that article was about Licht being fired...
He was replaced by this shithead:
In a 4 February 2024 investigation by The Guardian, some CNN staff blamed their channel's newly appointed director Mark Thompson for what they described as biased reporting of the Gaza war. The staff criticized their network's coverage of the war, charging that it had promoted Israeli propaganda, and gave more attention to Israeli suffering, and the Israeli narrative of the war. One staffer claimed that this bias was systematic and institutionalized, as many journalists' stories were forced to be cleared by channel's Jerusalem bureau before publication.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Thompson_(media_executive)
Meaning the current employees who are now worried, haven't been worried enough to leave over ethical concerns long ago. And they're still worried about what is happening.
It's neoliberalism all over, they keep ratcheting to the right, it fails, so they double down and move further right. We have to accept the people calling the shots aren't trying to make it work and know it won't. They just want to drag the Overton window the right under any pretext.
No matter what happens, in 3-5 years they'll say their only choice is to move to the right, that's what authoritarians do.
Does CNN still have something they consider a "newsroom"? Or do they just have one of their mainstream normie opinionated shows that's named "Newsroom"?
They can only control us if we watch. Don’t watch.
Imagine if everyone just quit.
CNN employees suffering the consequences of their actions? Oh well, anyways.
Who gets their news from the MSM anymore other than a few glib highlights like snowstorms or when there is an election?
A lot of people do. Otherwise mainstream media wouldn't exist anymore. They're not run as charities.
And those people all vote.