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CNN+ shutdown leaves axed staffers ‘aghast
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Posted By: Imright, 4/22/2022 5:14:52 AM

The shocking announcement that CNN+ would be shutting down operations less than a month after it launched has left out-of-work staffers “aghast and furious” over the company’s handling of what sources inside the network call “an absolute debacle.”“This is f–king crazy, it is nuts,” a CNN insider told The Post.“This literally rivals the epic disaster of Quibi,” the insider said, referring to Jeffrey Katzenberg’s short-lived streaming platform that went out of business just seven months after it launched in April 2020.CNN+ — which one insider estimated the network spent $300 million launching and between $100 million and $200 million advertising —

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Reply 1 - Posted by: franq 4/22/2022 5:43:28 AM (No. 1134931)
Start smaller next time. I'm thinking lemonade stand.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: DCGIRL 4/22/2022 5:45:03 AM (No. 1134934)
I see the new CEO is cleaning house.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: HPmatt 4/22/2022 6:16:24 AM (No. 1134949)
Coding jobs pay well……IRS is hiring too….
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Nimby 4/22/2022 6:21:36 AM (No. 1134951)
Now the water carriers for Joe get a feel for what the workers on the Keystone pipeline felt when they got canned by the stroke of Joe’s pen! Afterall they were cheering him on
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Reply 5 - Posted by: F15 Gork 4/22/2022 6:34:30 AM (No. 1134960)
Too bad, sooo sad. You boys hitched your wagon to a dying horse.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: RobertJ984 4/22/2022 6:58:02 AM (No. 1134984)
Damn....New Coke lasted longer than CNN-
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Strike3 4/22/2022 7:17:59 AM (No. 1135000)
You based your career on CNN? I hear that Kamala Harris is hiring, multiple positions.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: mobyclik 4/22/2022 7:18:22 AM (No. 1135001)
Maybe these out of work staffers can hook up with some of those 'what the hell' channels on my Directv subscription that nobody on planet Earth watches but remain in business. Or, they can practice asking ''Would you like fries with that?''
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Reply 9 - Posted by: udanja99 4/22/2022 7:18:30 AM (No. 1135002)
I guess the staffers never heard the old truism often repeated here… Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas. Karma is a b i+ch.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: hershey 4/22/2022 7:36:31 AM (No. 1135019)
Love it, I surely do!!!!!
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Reply 11 - Posted by: Cynical Backstory 4/22/2022 7:42:25 AM (No. 1135026)
If those boys and girl worker bees didn’t know then it’s past time they learned that upper management will tell you whatever it takes to keep you complacent and working until they swing the axe at your neck. That’s just what upper management does. Their paycheck depends upon it.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: Clinger 4/22/2022 8:00:22 AM (No. 1135050)
How blind and or stupid do you have to be to believe people will pay for a premium streaming service to obtain a product you can't attract people to consume for free? Now you are aghast and furious?
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Reply 13 - Posted by: RayLRiv 4/22/2022 8:02:49 AM (No. 1135057)
Love how those who live and work in a bubble are suddenly confused and angered when reality smacks them in the face.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: TJ54 4/22/2022 8:16:16 AM (No. 1135079)
Leaves me happy and dancing!
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Reply 15 - Posted by: Avikingman 4/22/2022 8:17:29 AM (No. 1135080)
Note that these departing drones must drop the obligatory f-bomb. It's part of their daily lexicon.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: Sorosisbehindit 4/22/2022 8:51:55 AM (No. 1135121)
We have been "aghast and furious" about CNN for years now. The media never seemed to notice.
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Reply 17 - Posted by: lftrn97 4/22/2022 8:58:30 AM (No. 1135129)
Wish it had kept going. It might have bankrupted them.
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Reply 18 - Posted by: bigfatslob 4/22/2022 9:13:50 AM (No. 1135140)
If CNN is really serious about news and reporting, there are some potato heads that need to roll I don't see them reforming to report news just a bunch of common taters. This is all hilarious when you think their horse was riding high back in 2016 and prior to that.
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Reply 19 - Posted by: PageTurner 4/22/2022 9:19:36 AM (No. 1135148)
Nobody wanted their 'product.' Wonder why.
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Reply 20 - Posted by: columba 4/22/2022 9:47:06 AM (No. 1135182)
Telling lies to people has its consequences.
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Reply 21 - Posted by: Anti_democRAT 4/22/2022 10:43:44 AM (No. 1135250)
Fake news helped destroy the economy and then they come to the people for money. Who could have thought anything could go wrong with that. On the otherhand look at the effort and money the people r willing to spend to support trump and trump rallies. All the gaslighting in the country can't undo the current reality of the damaged left.
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Reply 22 - Posted by: Jethro bo 4/22/2022 11:38:36 AM (No. 1135311)
Shouldn't they rename this cluster as -CNN?
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Reply 23 - Posted by: MickTurn 4/22/2022 12:05:04 PM (No. 1135337)
Rats refusing to leave the Sinking Ship...Good Luck with that!
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Reply 24 - Posted by: Buckrog 4/22/2022 12:11:57 PM (No. 1135350)
awwwww....I feel bad s/o
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Reply 25 - Posted by: DVC 4/22/2022 1:01:45 PM (No. 1135405)
Better put some ice on that.
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Reply 26 - Posted by: SALady 4/22/2022 1:43:51 PM (No. 1135444)
I am pretty sure that CNN+ knocks out "New Coke" as the stupidest stunt in the history of stupid stunts!!!
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Reply 27 - Posted by: Faithfully 4/22/2022 9:20:33 PM (No. 1135763)
Oh Geez. CNN employees who helped bring down the country are now experiencing the layoffs that we have been dealing with since the fake pandemic? See you idiots at the food bank.
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Reply 28 - Posted by: Faithfully 4/22/2022 9:22:14 PM (No. 1135764)
See you at the food bank, idiots.
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Reply 29 - Posted by: mifla 4/23/2022 5:16:16 AM (No. 1135900)
"You can't fire us! We are liberals! " MSNBC is hiring, but hurry, the stack of resumes on their HR desk is getting pretty high.
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