CNN cutting back on over-hyping everything as “breaking news”
They&#x27;re really desperate for clicks and that has made the quality of their news really decline. Their pages are overrun by ads and even pop-ups now and that makes them really look like a tabloid.<p>Opinion pieces are strewn throughout regular news links, and that really cheapens the brand of news delivery they had.<p>In a highly competitive market, the key to winning is not to imitate competition, it&#x27;s to decrease overhead costs and to deliver a higher quality product, but in the age of social media, everyone is losing sight of that because of the allure of instant virality and it&#x27;s getting really toxic to normal human beings more and more every day.<p>They regularly forgo important local and international stories unless they&#x27;re comical or sensational and it&#x27;s contradictory to provision of news, and that makes them competitive with every single commentator in podcasts and on social media, which is silly because CNN has far mor resources than that competition. Too many of their stories are subtle ads for big industry products as well, which also erodes trust in their brand and increases potential for conflicts of interest in reporting objectively.<p>It&#x27;s a terrible tragedy that they really watch reddit mostly to determine what is newsworthy, because Reddit and users there all have agendas of their own... The downvote&#x2F;upvote system is not transparent and it has been totally compromised by brigading. News stories, especially online should not be competing with each other for noteworthiness, because everyone has a different set of things that are relevant to them... Now we simply have one pipeline for everyone, which is taken over by commercial or sensational interests, and quickly put on mute once it becomes boring or too repetitive, despite lives being deeply affected (e.g. Water pollution in Flint, Michigan).<p>This is why CNN is suffering a decline in revenue and spikes in hype during a time they could really shine most... They&#x27;re wearing social media blinders instead of returning to the traditional book on news coverage.... That and all the pharmaceutical ads perhaps... (I am not a journalist FTR).