The chaotic collapse of CNN+
This sort of confirms my suspicion that the major news corporations in the United States are not really in business to make money, any more than state-funded news outlets in China or Russia are.  Their purpose is to control the narrative being fed to the general population, in the Orwellian sense.  Think about it for a moment - even if unprofitable, would they be allowed to go out of business?  Some other entity would step in and buy them up, solely so they could use them to promote their own business&#x2F;state propaganda agenda.<p>See Jeff Bezos and the Washington Post as a leading example.  Does Bezos care at all if the Washington Post turns a profit or not, as long as they can be counted on to spin their news coverage in the direction Bezos prefers, and not cover stories like the nature of AWS contracts with various federal agencies, etc.?<p>Most people are aware of this dynamic at some level and very few would now actually shell out their own money to be fed more of this state-corporate propaganda, which is why a paid subscription service like CNN+ rapidly went belly-up.<p>Probably the only way to fix it over the long run is to bring anti-trust efforts to bear on the corporate media conglomerates and their affiliates (i.e. Youtube&#x2F;Google directs all news inquiry searches to these &#x27;legitimate outlets&#x27; like CNN, FOX, MSNBC, blocking any access to a wide variety of independent shows being run by non-affiliated news &amp; opinion content generators, regardless of their popularity).