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On Thursday, January 23, three days after President Trump’s second inauguration, CNN announced plans to cut 6% of its staff. According to CEO Mark Thompson, “This decision responds to the changing media landscape and the need to adapt to digital transformation.”
The Time/Warner company currently has about 3,500 employees. In 1996, Turner Broadcast Sysyems (TBS), which includes CNN, was sold to Time Warner/AOL.
On June 01, 1980, the visionary businessman Ted Turner brought his groundbreaking idea to life, launching CNN, the world’s first 24-hour television news network. Turner’s bold move, which involved selling two local television stations (TBS) to fund his new venture, set a new standard in the media industry. With a team of 300 employees based in Atlanta, Georgia, Turner’s round-the-clock news network was a true pioneer.
Simultaneously, CNN launched with bureaus in six major US metropolises, including Washington, D.C. The network’s popularity was not just a trend but a seismic shift. It eclipsed traditional broadcast news-gathering companies such as ABC, CBS, and NBC, redefining the media landscape.
CNN became the place to get ‘reliable’ news, becoming the new standard in journalism. It became CBS’ 60 Minutes on steroids. For politicians, it was the place to get their stories out to the public. And for entertainers, it was the place to be seen. And then came Donald J. Trump.
The Loss of Public Trust In CNN
When Donald Trump launched his bid for the presidency in 2015, he naturally clashed with CNN. Back then, CNN was still in the habit of publishing about 90 percent accurate stories. The number of people aware that President Trump is hyperbolic is significant.
However, people loved his lies. Whenever CNN fact-checked Trump, he called them “fake news.” And sometimes, then-Presidential candidate Trump was right about the news station. Trump labeled CNN as Fake News, and the label stuck. Trump’s words became a self-fulfilling prophesy for CNN.
Donald Trump, Sr. built a cult following. If the foundation of a cult leader is to tell his followers that honey will make them fly, then his followers will eat honey. They won’t fly, but they’ll believe they are flying. The notion becomes their culture. Reality will never convince them they’re not flying.
The Israeli And Palestinian Conflict.
Then came the October 2023 conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians. That conflict allowed all legacy news media to manifest themselves as a mouthpiece for the state of Israel. CNN lost 80 percent of its journalistic integrity. CNN and MSNBC became to Benjamin Netanyahu what Fox News is to President Trump.
Veteran CNN Newscaster Jim Acosta Leaves CNN After He was Given The Shaft By CEO Mark Thompson. CNN Moved Acosta From His 10:00 a.m. Time Slot To The Midnight Shift. Acosta Is Known To Asking Trump and His Administration Sharp Questions.
Fox News Started Out As a White Supremacist Propaganda Channel.
Fox News became to television what Rush Limbaugh was to AM Radio. A News channel built on a culture of lies hate, and white supremacy. It is the most mainstream of mainstream media.
Substandard female ‘journalists’ hired for their bustlines, legs, and thighs that adorn their Curvy Couch dominate Fox News. Excepting “judge” Jennine Piro, Piro’s butt is in the middle of her back. The Judge of Norte Dame. She is a nasty, anti-Black bigot.
Initially, Fox’s male lineup consisted of anti-Black propagandists Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, and Leland Vittert. O’Reilly and Vittert found a new wasp nest at the fledging channel “News” Nation.
However, Fox News kept its ratings because Fox News audience expected its steady diet of lies. And Fox News gave it to them. It was easy for the Fox. If Fox News channel shed its coat of lies and currency of white supremacy, it would lose its audience as CNN lost its audience.
There is no truth in those demons sitting on Fox News’s curvy couch. Who is that Black guy who sits there on Fox’s curvy couch looking like Saddam Hussein’s hostage? Dude, you might as well sell your butt on the street. Selling your butt on the street would be less demeaning. Anything for a buck. He’s not very bright. That is a D.E.I. hire, placed there to validate KKK bigotry.
Fast forward to 2025.
Somewhere along the line, once candidate Trump labeled CNN as fake news, they proved themselves as fake news.
Corrupted politicians and business white-collar criminals dreaded being profiled on CNN. Of course, CNN labored to show African Americans in a bad light as they do on all other news networks. However, CNN was a tad bit less reckless in disparaging Black Americans. The channel and its pursuit of ‘truth’ are memorialized in the movie Scarface starring Al Pacino. Then came Donald J. Trump.
The live views of CNN’s anchorman Bernard Shaw are forever etched in our minds as America began its raid on Baghdad during the 1991 Gulf War. “The skies over Baghdad have been illuminated,” Shaw told the world. In Baghdad, Bernard Shaw was joined by veteran war journalist Peter Arnet and another fearless journalist, John Holliman.
Then came the latest Israelis and Palestinians ‘war’ in the GAZA Strip. On October 7, a group of Pales known as Hamas attacked the state of Israelis. Like all mainstream media, CNN ramped up its production of slanted news. Citizen “journalists” on YouTube and Tik Tok countered with counter ‘facts’ of the ‘war.’ CNN Started With Journalistic Integrity. It appears to be going out a fast train of falsehood and mismanagement.
Clinton Franklin is a formally trained Computer Scientist and a writer at heart. Clinton is an avid observer of nature and a lover of people and diverse cultures. He adheres to the adage, “Think globally, but act locally.”
It is crucial to be forward-thinking but not a forward person. “Be kind to everyone you meet because each carries his heavy burden…” Plato.
Embrace the three Constants: Change, Justice, and Rightness.
The thought police are busy at work trying to suppress free speech — if allowed their march to madness — they will arrest your very thoughts.
