McKinsey consultants projected 2 million people would subscribe to CNN+ at $6/month, but only about 10,000 have signed up for a free trial so far. How could such smart business minds be so massively wrong? Can you hear James Earl Jones intone “THIS is CNN Minus”?
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Now, I’m not saying you three had any influence, but CNN+ announced they were shutting down today. Coincidence? Don’t know, but the timing….?
I have been a member for a long time now, and followed these guys since PJTV, and will always be a member as long as they are believable and making me feel they are telling the truth, and humor is good. Thanks.
Media has been biased for the entire history of our great country; Newspapers touting Adams vs. Jefferson comes to mind. You’d think that by now we would all be laughing when they tell us about their credibility.
Years ago, when CNN was an actual news organisation, you could watch Christianne Amanpour with this weeks poor, abused orphan on her lap and tell (with a fair degree of accuracy) which country we were going to overthrow next!
I don’t think In Search of Excellence has aged as well a it should have. Not only did their beauty pageant winners not fare well ,but astonishingly, “China” was not mentioned once. Not a single time. With hindsight, the uniqueness and firstness of the book may have been its best and lasting value.
I knew this comment would come. Many of the companies praised in that book did not fare so well in later years. But, for their time, they were excellent. Nothing lasts forever.
Reminds me of Leading the Revolution, written @2000, citing Global Crossing and Enron as examples of the companies of the future
Question: How many people shot hot coffee through their nostrils this morning watching Steve and “the editor” have to clean up multiple Mike CHRIS! Wallace remarks?
The most accurate answer is 1…. Me. Damn, hot coffee through the nose is painful. Funny later, but at the moment, painful.
The more probable answer is , more than 5000 BWDC members who also watched this piece of CLASSIC COMEDY GOLD! Thanks Steve Green.
(side by side video of Steve Green and Max Headroom is on the way, working on it during lunch, hopefully posting by the time I get home from work).
I was wondering if BW.com had hired Industrial Light and Magic to do their seamless high-tech special effects editing… 🙂
My wife reminded me —laughing — after I told her the story that this wasn’t the first time I’d done the Chris/Mike swap.
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU RAISE YOUR CHILDREN WATCHING 60 MINUTES.
Let this be a lesson to the next generation
Except the next generation never learns from the previous generations example. Each one learns from their own mistakes.
You should know that – basic Heinlein principle.
On a side note, regarding newsies reading teleprompters after watchung Ron Burgandy – I’m waiting for some disgruntled Biden* staffer on the way out the door to have Joe* close out a speech with “Go f*ck yourself, San Diego.”
“[Chris] Wallace” – Perfect dubbing. 100%
CNN+
Found the problem.
It’s that first part.
“Get woke, go broke” is just a way to describe a known and obvious common error in business practice. It’s not “the message” that’s the root problem, it’s that people don’t want what you think you absolutely must sell them.
The free market it a wonderful thing. It regulates itself in a marvelous fashion. In decades past an air conditioner was an expensive thing to both own and operate. People wanted cheaper air conditioners that used less electricity. The market has followed that demand and a result has been much cheaper air conditioners that used much less electrical power. This is not only good for the consumer because they’re much cheaper to buy and operate but good for the electrical grid also. The market drove the trend towards better economy and lower impact on the ecology.
CNN, once upon a time, was huge. It covered real news and had a lot of eyeballs. That’s how it ended up in airports and doctor’s offices. All news is slanted to some degree but CNN didn’t add spin at a significantly higher proportion than anywhere else so we’d all learned to live with it. This was in the days before the internet was a major player in news and before there were things besides polling to use to gauge an audience.
Back in the days when CB radios were all the craze I was flying down the interstate because the “Smokey report” was all clear. I knew it was all clear because I’d just gotten on the radio and checked. A voice on the radio told me it was all clear and to “bring it on”. I went under an overpass, looked in the rearview mirror and to my great surprise there was a Trooper flying down the on ramp with his lights flashing. He pulled me over, walked up to the car and said …
“So what’s the big hurry?”
I told him I didn’t realize I was speeding (an obvious lie), that I was just driving down the road listening to the radio and not paying attention.
He said “Listening to the wrong radio, huh?”
Funny thing is, that voice on the radio was exactly the same as the one standing outside my open driver’s side window.
That’s what CNN is doing, business wise. They’re Leftists to begin with so it’s easy as hell to go with their own confirmation bias and heed things like Twitter, which is a primary driver for news people. They’re “listening to the wrong radio”. So they brought on their own disaster and …
It couldn’t have happened to a more deserving pile of _____ (fill in the blank as you see fit).
That gives a different skew to Bear Trap!
I recall in my early teens, we were pounding down either the Garden State Pkwy or the NYS Thruway. Just going with the traffic flow. Whole line of cars passed the first cop doing radar. Half a mile later the second officer was pointing everyone to pull over. Then 2 more guys started going down the line writing tickets. Had to be 15 -20 cars. My dad was po’d but we were flying. I think I started driving a couple years later and my godfather gave me a radar detector for my birthday.
It always p*ssed me off when I was younger how NJ had to be one of the last states to lose the damnable 55 MPH speed limit. It always made trips to the shore a lot longer than they needed to be
Actually it was “Bear Entrapment”. A LEO can catch people who are breaking the law but it’s illegal to encourage or entice others to break the law for an easy arrest. As some folks up in Michigan recently were reminded.
I have a dandy radar detector and so of course I moved to the one state where they’re illegal to operate.
When I lived in CA I was full stealth. Radar and laser detectors, radio gear, high-flash paint on my rear plate and Veil ™ anti-radar/anti-lidar paint on all the leading edge radar/laser reflecting surfaces.
Veil works but you need to use it with a good detector. It doesn’t completely absorb the signal but it attenuates it enough that you have plenty of time to get legal when the detector fires. So you at least have a chance even with instant-on radars and lasers.
Here I don’t bother with any of that anymore because I never speed intentionally. I do miss my detector though, not because I want to go faster than I’m supposed to but because it’s good to know when speed countermeasures are in operation just so I can double check my speed. It would be the pits after 30 years without a moving violation to get a speeding ticket by accident.
I’ve disliked XiNN for a long time, and even I was amazed at the circle jerk they held when the Mueller Report came up a big fat zero of Russian collusion. I think they were truly sincere when they were crowing about what a great job they did covering the story – complete lack of any awareness.
Thank you…CheeNN. Perfect.
It was a pleasure watching a young college kid hand Stelter his posterior and I thought it quite Freudian that Stelter’s first impulse was the shelter of “lunch time”.
CNN Plus 🥱😴
I want the editor to put together a “Max Headroom” like piece with Steve saying ‘Chr – Chr – Chris Wallace”
Consultant internal meeting – what is their total cost for operations for a year? How many subscribers do they need to get there. 2,000,000. Well then that’s what we say in our report.
Easy to be a consultant. I think they used Dogbert.
I read your comment before watching the whole video and started bagging up when I got to the end – someone needs to m ake a Max Headroom video of Steve!
BB and RS, I saw that and immediately grabbed some hysterical footage of Max Headroom on YT, and grabbed the same hysterically funny edits of Steve Green. Doing the side by side at lunch and should have posted right when I get home from work! Brother Bob….I am that “Someone”!
Please let us know when you post it!
Heading to the store for shopping….final touches tonight!
Brother Bob, I just put it on my Rumble account but first shot a DM to Steve Green to ask permission before posting. It’s only 2 minutes long, but still, it’s his face and words and I feel the need for permission from him before linking. That’s one of the many differences between conservatives and progressives. We actually feel the need to get permission, in order to do the right thing.
All good – being considerate of others is who we are. What’s your Rumble channel’s name?
Better Late than Never!
After getting the thumbs up by the one and only Vodkapundit to post this lil video…..(In the voice of Ed Sullivan..)
Ladies and Gentlemen, right here, on our stage….
Max Headroom and Steve Green!
(Tears, crying, screaming, head shaking from the audience!)
https://rumble.com/v11nrkw-stephen-headroom.html