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CNN Is Already Planning Layoffs At Streaming "Service" CNN+;
To Raise Easy (?) Cash, CNN Volition Plow Its First One-half Hour of "Content" Into NFTs and Sell Them to Braindead Partisans

Chris Wallace'southward job might not be as secure as he'd hoped:

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Breaking:

@CNNplus employees bracing for layoffs possibly every bit soon equally May amid projections of lackluster sales of new streaming channel; CNN employees say new streaming aqueduct could be merged into larger @discoveryplus as early as May unless subscriptions pick upwards 130 @FoxBusiness

Obviously they wouldn't fire a loftier-contour guy like Wallace, but if they're already planning layoffs, that means the "service" is not going to be around very long.

Or will it? CNN'southward new owners, Discovery, know total well that people aren't going to pay $5.99 to not watch a channel they're already non watching for free.

So they're already talking well-nigh "bundling" it in a packet bargain with channels people are willing to pay for. Like HBO.

On Tuesday CNN is introducing CNN+, a subscription streaming service that combines alive news coverage, on-demand programming and interactive interviews.

CNN'south goal is to found closer relationships with news consumers -- the same style Netflix (NFLX) and HBO Max have done in entertainment.

It has hired hundreds of people and developed dozens of shows for this new platform. Analysts say information technology is the most aggressive streaming news venture to date in the United States.

"We are going to be the merely global video-driven news subscription business," CNN primary digital officer and caput of CNN+ Andrew Morse said in an interview.
On Tuesday CNN is introducing CNN+, a subscription streaming service that combines alive news coverage, on-need programming and interactive interviews.

CNN's goal is to establish closer relationships with news consumers -- the same mode Netflix (NFLX) and HBO Max have washed in entertainment.
Information technology has hired hundreds of people and developed dozens of shows for this new platform. Analysts say information technology is the most ambitious streaming news venture to appointment in the U.s.a..
"Nosotros are going to be the only global video-driven news subscription business organisation," CNN chief digital officer and head of CNN+ Andrew Morse said in an interview.
The big iii broadcast news divisions -- ABC, NBC and CBS -- have streaming channels that are complimentary and ad-supported, simply accept far less content. MSNBC repurposes some of its programs on NBCUniversal'south subscription service, Peacock, while Trick News sells a streamer that focuses on entertainment and right-wing talk, not news.

Oh, they focus on partisan churr, different the pristine "news" channel CNN.

Right.

CNN+ is singled-out from all of those. Still, the service faces headwinds, including looming management changes and outside skepticism about the service's prospects.

"News is additive. It's habit forming. Merely it'southward a hard sell for a standalone subscription service," said Julia Alexander, senior strategy analyst for Parrot Analytics, a firm that advises media companies.

Down the route, CNN+ may exist bundled. Only at launch it is a standalone product priced at $5.99 a month.

Wow, that shows some real confidence in CNN+ -- buy these other channels people actually want, and we'll throw in this Pile of Dogshit for free.

Which is CNN's tried-and-true business model -- they're only on cable at all because the cost of the aqueduct is bundled into the cost of the channels people actually spotter.

And: Is it actually $5.99 per month?

No, it's non.

They're already "discounting" it at its existent toll, $2.99 per month. Which is all the same style too loftier.

If you sign up now, y'all'll become CNN+ at half-cost, which is still 5000% of what information technology'southward actually worth. And you'll lock in those savings for life.

Then that's the real price. Every bit anyone who'southward ever tried to cancel cable knows, cablevision companies will offer you the "teaser" rates, the "Try HBO for $4 per month (for vi months)" rate, when y'all show you're serious well-nigh cancelling. And if you periodically call upward to cancel, you can keep getting those teaser rates for a while.

Is CNN+ really going to turn away what few people are interested in the "service" at all if they need the "50% off" rate instead of the "regular" $5.99 charge per unit? No. This rate will be routinely offered to anyone.

The just people who will pay $5.99 a month to watch Chris Wallace and Don Lemon in a more coincidental "conversation" state of affairs are braindead partisan super-fans who simply desire to spend actress money to support CNN's brand of "journalism," like Noted Bourgeois Blogger AllahPundit.

Here's another style Noted Bourgeois Blogger AllahPundit can back up his favorite "journalism" outfit: he can buy the NFTs of the first half our of CNN+'s "news" coverage.

For those of you who don't know what the hell NFTs are: Join the order. I don't know what the hell they are, either.

But what I say to pretend I know what they are is that an NFT is an unreproducable cryptographic code, or crypto fingerprint, that allows you take a digital object, like a digital photograph or a thirty second video of CNN+'southward amazing programming, and stamp it with that code to make this ane copy of the hands-copied digital artifact the "one real authorized copy."

And in theory, limiting the supply of something should increase its price. You tin't sell a jpg image because they tin exist hands copied and reproduced. But of one jpg image has a stamp making it the 1 real jpg image, you tin can, in theory, sell that as a unique item.

And people are doing this now with digital "art," and people are "investing" in NFTs and flipping them, selling them to other people.

I don't desire to spread FUD (Fright, Uncertainty, and Doubt), but this NFT affair ever seemed very very giddy to me, and I accept a strong feeling that the NFT market is near to collapse.

Or at least it will "right-size" to its truthful value.

Which is cipher.

But and then again, I chose against buying Bitcoin when it was similar $600 per coin, because I thought that was fashion past the top of the market place.

And so anyway: What a perfect fourth dimension for CNN to fleece its braindead partisan zombie viewers, selling them worthless digital vapor-trinkets.

CNN is marketing its CNN+ streaming debut as a "historic moment" for the company by selling the first seconds of its first live stream equally a set of NFTs, CNN+ chief Andrew Morse said on Wednesday.

The NFTs, of which in that location will be 250, volition feature the showtime 29 seconds of the start episode of five Things with Kate Bolduan, a daily forenoon show for CNN+ that marked the start of the streaming service'southward debut on Tuesday.

The NFTs will exist available for buy beginning on at 10 a.thou. PT on March 30 via Vault by CNN, a split up NFT marketplace that sells digital collectibles of major moments in CNN'southward history, such every bit footage of Ted Turner launching CNN in 1980. At launch, each NFT featuring the first moment of Bolduan'due south live bear witness will be sold at $50 each; users practise not need to use crypto to purchase the tokens.

Now you can be the proud, deranged owner of a
certified copy of this vile hag

One good thing about NFTs:

Feminists are lament that they're "anti-woman."

Because non enough men are handholding them and doing their research for them and giving them complimentary NFTs only for being women.

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