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New CNN head says network needs to recapture
‘swagger and innovation’

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Posted By: 4250Luis, 1/18/2024 5:59:55 AM

CNN’s new chief executive says the company needs to recapture the “swagger and innovation” of its early days – and that, he says, increasingly means embracing a future outside of television. Mark Thompson, appointed CNN’s chief executive last fall after stints at the New York Times and the BBC, outlined a strategy to his staff on Wednesday that included a corporate restructuring but few external specifics on how that transformation will take place. Once a “scrappy outsider”, CNN has been slow to respond to the reality of its primary television business shrinking, Thompson said in his memo. “There’s currently too little innovation and risk-taking,” Thompson said in the memo.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: plomke 1/18/2024 6:19:39 AM (No. 1638773)
Naw...just grab your fake awards and shut the lights off on your way out...
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Reply 2 - Posted by: 5 handicap 1/18/2024 6:20:41 AM (No. 1638774)
Perhaps telling TRUTH for a change would reinvigorate your audience?
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Reply 3 - Posted by: DogFacedPonySoldier 1/18/2024 6:22:58 AM (No. 1638776)
CNN is obsolete. Truth isn’t.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: NancyD 1/18/2024 6:43:07 AM (No. 1638784)
In order to regain, it must be something they once had. So its just words, not going to happen.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: mobyclik 1/18/2024 7:03:44 AM (No. 1638795)
How about just reporting the news instead of hour upon hour of leftwing propaganda. Now THAT would innovative for CNN.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: FJB 1/18/2024 7:14:28 AM (No. 1638800)
Suggest Newsmax quit boosting MSCNN's viewership by constantly relaying its racist anti-American clips. MAGA
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Reply 7 - Posted by: thethirdruffian 1/18/2024 7:56:27 AM (No. 1638825)
CNN lost its credibility 30 years ago. You can never recover from a stained reputation like that. It’s a biased tabloid.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Philipsonh 1/18/2024 8:10:22 AM (No. 1638833)
All CNN needs to do is fire and replace every current employee that a viewer sees when tuned in. Hire news reporters and journalists, not spewers of propaganda. ** I have watched 15 MINUTES total of CNN in 10 years
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Old Army Vet 1/18/2024 9:01:57 AM (No. 1638883)
I think the word you're looking for is trust, which you lost years ago.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Dodge Boy 1/18/2024 9:06:34 AM (No. 1638888)
No, cnn. We want you to go the way Air America did. AA disappeared because no on liked its news product, remember?
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Reply 11 - Posted by: WimeTarmerFable 1/18/2024 9:14:56 AM (No. 1638898)
Then report the news instead of making it up.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: janjan 1/18/2024 9:23:24 AM (No. 1638908)
New buzzwords are not going to fix CNN. Their talking heads (they are certainly not journalists) are 99% liberals and that’s the audience they cater to. The rest of us, the majority, are considered deplorable. This sentiment is returned.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: Strike3 1/18/2024 9:30:57 AM (No. 1638913)
Deck chairs on the Titanic come to mind.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: bpl40 1/18/2024 10:24:09 AM (No. 1638963)
I would suggest honesty and professionalism are better goals.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: Birddog 1/18/2024 10:34:42 AM (No. 1638968)
Uhmmm..."Swagger" is a masculine thing , a macho thing, a confidence that comes from competence. Mainly an OUTDOORS thing. CNN is a sashay network, prancing and primping when it isn't outright twerking. It started "Vogueing" in 1990 when Madonna got big, has not dropped that act, it has 2am/disco/drag poseurs still posturing in the bright light of Day....Indoors, where the complementary lighting can be controlled. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuJQSAiODqI There days of the "Scud Studs" is looooong gone, and even those "Macho" men have proven to actually be poofters..
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Reply 16 - Posted by: Twinkle93 1/18/2024 10:58:47 AM (No. 1638995)
The way back is simple. Just follow Joe Friday's directions. "Just the facts ma'am, just the facts."
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Reply 17 - Posted by: broken01 1/18/2024 11:46:20 AM (No. 1639030)
More like drawn and quartered.
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Reply 18 - Posted by: DVC 1/18/2024 12:10:04 PM (No. 1639038)
They now have lies and propaganda....and whining.
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Reply 19 - Posted by: Gordon Mills 1/18/2024 12:18:10 PM (No. 1639049)
#8, you should have placed a period after the word reporters.
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Reply 20 - Posted by: JimBob 1/19/2024 12:24:35 AM (No. 1639467)
The TRUTH? From the COMMIE NEWS NETWORK? HAW! HAW! HAW! -yer killin' me!- HAW! HAW! HAW!
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