CNN to lay off hundreds of employees as post-inauguration transformation begins, NBC News is also planning layoffs this week
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/22/cnn-to-lay-off-hundreds-of-employees-post-inauguration.html
CNN to lay off hundreds of employees as post-inauguration transformation begins, NBC News is also planning layoffs this week
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/22/cnn-to-lay-off-hundreds-of-employees-post-inauguration.html
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I imagine they’ll soon be receiving their “reporting” directly from the White House Office of Communications, so the need for staff is obviously reduced.
Welcome to propaganda in the US like you’ve never seen.
I wonder how News will adapt as clearly people are less watching the news on cable and getting it more freely online.
More AI slop I’m assuming.
I’ve not watched CNN since the election. They’ve gone downhill a while ago especially after new management took over.
We are witnessing the death of journalism
Sadly they’ve already stopped being actual journalism a while ago in order to prop up their pick for ratings.
Both have been complete shit for years. Not worth supporting anything to the right of the Guardian and both clearly are.
More mainstream news agencies have a disadvantage.
Fox can get viewers now when things swing their way. When they don’t, like during the Obama years, they can focus on pure rage and hatred, getting viewers addicted to those emotions.
Unless you pander to base emotions, and get people literally hooked on the dopamine they get from watching your channel, it’s hard to keep up.
Imagine the face of disbelief of all of them who help elect Trump. They all worked for a network owned by billionaires and got paid to communicate their propaganda. Enjoy the fruits of selling out for money, zero character as people.
I can’t imagine a time that I would ever watch network news again. Useless trolls.
Do people on the left have TV news on 24/7? I don’t, and I never watch TV news
No integrity. I won’t watch
All part of the plan. Taking over the media.
I can’t believe the biggest effing idiot, a joke when he first ran as president, with a huge trail of crimes has defeated every single one of his enemies trying to hold him accountable with the help of progressives.
Progressives fell for online propaganda over a war that has been waging for nearly a century. A war they clearly didn’t understand, from a country they will never step foot on. They threw away everything because of it. What morons.
[survey shows progressives who didnt vote & stayed home said gaza was #1 reason ](https://www.imeupolicyproject.org/postelection-polling)
Nice Job you twats. Y’all are officially more stupid than maga. They won. You helped. You fucked us all with your sanctimonious elevated egos.
Would be funny after all of this, Trump just died?
No need for employees when you are a state controlled media.
Maybe CNN can go back to all news instead of just a little news and rest of the time talking about it. There’s more shit going on that we’d like to know about it. Instead, we get three analyst discussing their opinions on a select few stories.
I’m a journalist and I’ve ratcheted down my consumption of TV news. Mostly because of Trump fatigue. So if I’m doing it. Almost everyone is.
Calling CNN “news” today is just wrong. I worked for these guys right out of college (early 90s) as a photographer (we all start as photographers). Those were the last golden years of TV news. There really wasn’t much bias, no 24/7 rage-bait shows except for maybe the occasional spicy Larry King interview. But CNN has always been cheap. Living in Atlanta at the time barely scraping by on the pittance they paid new hires.
Now CNN, and most media owners, are cutting bodies HARD. Tegna has fully embraced AI and found a way to downsize people that survived the news automation wave that happened in the late 90s into the 2000s. Allen media has made headlines for nuking local meteorologists, but that may change (at least until the firestorm dies down). Gray, Nexstar, Sinclair, Tegna and a host of smaller companies are just slashing bodies left and right. All that experience is walking out the door and being replaced by newbies fresh out of college who are going into top markets with little to no experience and not much to show for years of a formal education. I’d like to go back to my college and see just what it being taught these days because it sure as hell isn’t journalism.
Us old-timers are getting out just in time. I’m getting close to retirement but I seriously doubt my position will exist in five years. Go to another station? Nope. My position will be eliminated nationwide. I’m just so sad that the people that replace us are just there for a paycheck and don’t care about true journalism on the local level. News at local stations has declined at a disturbing rate. Our media overlords just don’t care anymore. I could move into the freelance world and do sports production but that’s no life for an old fart like me.
Before you come at me saying random people with a Youtube channel are independent journalists (which should be an oxymoron), let me just say that nobody like that comes without some kind of bias or motivation to make cash by exploiting the emotions of viewers.
Dark times are coming. Whoever occupies the White House has nothing at all to do with it. The handful of media owners are the problem.
Everything these billionaires touch turns to shit. There are like 300,000,000 of us and a handful of them.
Good cause I will not watch any News Media in the next 4 years…
PBS feels like the only US network with consistently worthwhile news coverage, but i’ll be (pleasantly) shocked if they don’t get neutered beyond recognition if not outright dismantled under this admin.
I see that the journalistq who spent years sane washing Trump were appropriately reompensed
If we want real news we’ll have to look outside the country
BBC gang where ya at
Lol. By the end of the election, they were pushing hard propaganda. I’m all for balanced discussions, but their approach was completely over the top with mental gymnastics. It didn’t even feel like I was watching the news—it was more like watching a poorly made YouTuber vlog full of complaints. Honestly, I could get that kind of content from more reputable YouTubers.
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