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Originally Posted by Dusty_Star
CNN boss Mark Thompson says network faces 'existential crisis,' plans eventual switch away from cable TV.
"Thompson said that one possibility is to have CNN users register so that the network can then sell information about its audience to advertisers."
CNN boss Mark Thompson says network faces 'existential crisis' |
The only thing that saves CNN now is that fact that it's on cable, and thus gets shown in every airport and business lobby as the "middle" between MSNBC and Fox News. Which has not been true for 20 years.
You move it to a purely on-line platform, and worse yet, make people have to pay for it al a carte, then if further slides into obscurity.
The shame is, there is a place for a middle road, but the heads of CNN want to continue to be thought of as cool and get invited to all of the cocktail parties. Proving once again, that we never really leave 8th grade.