American Greatness (amgreatness.com)
CNN left its roots, stopped being the news agency with the international reach it set out to be, and morphed into an increasingly maniacal, 24/7 left-wing diatribe.
"CNN is dying. Its president, Jeff Zucker, was just fired. (Or, rather, he “resigned.”) The network’s viewership is plummeting, and fewer than 500,000 people on average tuned in last month. Advertisers don’t send their dollars there much anymore, and the “stars” the network once had either have been removed for cause or caught up in sex or other scandals.
"Chris “Fredo” Cuomo threatened to burn the place down after getting fired last year. Why does the parent company—AT&T, a telephone megacompany—put up with it? CNN is a drag on the parent company’s earnings, a thorn in its side, and a hit on its reputation. Wouldn’t a rational actor cancel the network altogether or sell it off and be done with it? With $150 billion in debt, no wonder AT&T decided to sell the ailing network to the Discovery Network. AT&T will no doubt benefit from getting out of politics.
What I Saw Behind the Scenes at CNN
"It wasn’t always this way. Atlanta was a Southern town, but it was becoming something very different and more impressive by 1992. It was getting cosmopolitan and downright worldly. Atlanta had won the 1996 Summer Olympics (secured by Mayor Andrew Young at—you guessed it—Davos). Segregation was over and grits were becoming hard to find.
"One company had come to personify the newfound swagger and embodied the spirit of the “New South.” That company had started as a small-fry radio station with a big signal and had grown into the powerhouse, most-watched-network on cable television. Its format was unheard of at the time: all news, all the time.
"After the Gulf War, an entrepreneurial Ted Turner, CNN’s founder and CEO, bragged he had won. CNN represented raw media power never before seen.
