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Beau says:
Leadership changes at CNN prompt speculation on capturing a right-wing audience and the risks of alienating their existing viewership.
Media Analysts, News Consumers
Insight into the potential consequences of media outlets shifting their political alignment and the challenges they face in balancing audiences.
#CNN #Media #News #RightWing #AudienceCapture
Well, howdy there, internet people, it's Bo again.
So today we're going to talk about some leadership changes
at CNN and what happened, what's likely to occur
in the future, and how CNN, if they chose,
could continue along the same route
if they still want to try to capture
that right-wing audience.
Okay, so what happened?
Chris Lick, chair and CEO over there at CNN, out, gone.
In the interim, there will be a leadership team
that will make decisions.
The departure is widely seen as being a result
of plunging ratings, a less than happy staff,
a perceived lack of trust among viewers,
a, well let's just call it an unflattering article from the Atlantic, and then of course
the Trunk Town Hall, which in my opinion is really what set all of this in motion. CNN,
it's been a liberal like mainstay for a long time, and they are trying to move to the right.
the perception. Whether or not the new leadership team is going to continue to
try that is it's debatable. My guess is they're going to still attempt to move
right, but they will try to be a little bit more subtle about it. I don't know
how effective they're going to be at that.
the alternative would be that they're going to still go down the same path and
try to capture an audience that wants nothing to do with them and maintain the
audience that they had. That's a really hard needle to thread when you are
talking about when you're talking about a very polarized country and a base
that CNN appears to be trying to capture that isn't actually accustomed to news
reporting. They're accustomed to people playing into their own biases. CNN will
be unable to capture that audience without losing the audience that it had
for decades. So that's where it sits now on the off chance that the leadership
team does want to continue to try to capture that Trump base. It's worth
remembering that the guy who had that U-Haul truck that went into the barriers
up there in DC. He wanted to gain access to the White House and announce the end
to American democracy. So maybe they could give him a town hall next. Anyway,
It's just a thought. Y'all have a good day.
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