18-08-2023, 07:56 PM
(16-08-2023, 02:32 PM)ginnyfan Wrote: ^^^ Licht never presented his plans for CNNI but he did stop CNN US's nasty habit of labeling everything as BREAKING NEWS and giving non stop coverage to certain topics, especially Trump, which also meant less of this on CNNI sumulcasts.
He also wanted a more traditionally structured hour long bulletins on domestic, with a variety of news items and topics covered. Imagine that, a proper news service instead of the same 10 talking heads playing musical chairs, rotating in ugly looking sets.
The thing is, his ‘vision’ for CNN , as admirable as it might have been, had no basis in the reality of US Cable News, and was losing CNN viewers by the bucket load. His editorial ideas were out of step with the reality of what the US viewer wants from cable news, which is quite different from what the international viewer wants . It had even been tried before, around 20 years ago, and it was a loser then too. Whether we like it or not, this is the reality that CNN has to work within.