Conniption News

I have a plan to save CNN. Firstly it must cease to be CNN, as we know it. There are times when the middle ground is a no-man's land and this is one of those. It's not that they do their thing poorly but that they are doing the wrong thing. The world has changed and CNN hasn't.

The new way is high emotional-content reporting. News organizations now own their subjectivity and run with it. The reinvention of CNN will be so pronounced it will be unnecessary to sell the transformation to the public. It will sell itself. Conventional reporting is dead. 

Let's bury it. The lines between news and entertainment aren't blurred but nonexistent. It was an illusion that there was ever a distinction. Since the change in actual reporting will be dramatic it would be an enormous waste to change the name "CNN" itself, so it will be kept.

But it now stands for the CONNIPTION NEWS NETWORK, a division of TANTRUM MEDIA. This is modeled on certain right-wing news sources, whose ratings speak for themselves, that being the democracy of the marketplace. If the people want garbage you feed them garbage.

 It's happy-meal journalism. Enjoy.