I don't get it, CNN+ looks exactly the opposite of what we need as a country. I looked at their show offerings[0] and 75% of them looked like true crime dramas. If I wanted a news source that would make me live in perpetual fear I'd go to Fox. Thinking there's a gunman around every corner is what we used to make fun of Fox viewers for (and their need to carry a weapon to respond to said gunman). Maybe it's just me, but this is the exact opposite direction CNN or any news should go. News isn't for entertainment and it shouldn't ever be. And I'm pretty sure a lot of us have been fed up with the attempts to make it so.
Mainstream news is basically dead. It's all for entertainment and ad revenue. There are very few journalist of any sort of integrity that exist on any of these networks.
They'll be eaten by the younger upstarts that actually care to report on news and write real journalism. And then the cycle begins again (look at Vice).
"If I wanted a news source that would make me live in perpetual fear I'd go to Fox."
You could literally pick any of them to get your daily allowance of fear. They all lead and follow with some form of bloody hook to get the echo chamber reverberating.
I stopped watching the news PRE-covid! Actually, TV, i turned it all off... because? the power the media has in influencing dumb people. I got sick of it after the last eelection. Turning off is the only way.
Never felt happier. I recommend it to everyone. I crowd source my news from friends.
>If I wanted a news source that would make me live in perpetual fear I'd go to Fox. Thinking there's a gunman around every corner is what we used to make fun of Fox viewers for (and their need to carry a weapon to respond to said gunman).
Wow, you weren't kidding. I was at least expecting it to differ from fox by showing different kinds of crime, but nope - subway shootings in NYC was the first thing I saw. Who the hell would ever pay for this???
> subway shootings in NYC was the first thing I saw
Today isn't a normal day or a good day to compare news sources; there was a mass shooting in which at least 10 people were shot and 28 injured. That subway shooting is also the top story on Google News and the NY Times website.
Yeah I grew up in a household that watched Fox. I saw CNN shift hard in this direction with the pandemic so shifted towards more neutral tone sources like Reuters and AP. It's honestly disgusting to me to see so much fear based content.
And to be fair, I did see some non-fear based content. But the vast majority was and even some of the non-fear based stuff (maybe, I'm literally judging a show by its cover) still had those dark tones/style of posters.
I cannot stress this enough. People don't watch news for the entertainment value (even if that does increase viewership, that's not why they are watching it).
[0] https://plus.cnn.com/