People purchase products for myriad subjective reasons, and some of the most common tend to be quality and price. As the great economist Walter Williams often stressed, sellers that focus on race or other superficial factors for their sales – i.e., sellers who exclude certain racial groups, those who focus on the superficial, on their assumptions and prejudices about race, gender, sex, or creed -- tend to lose market share. He stressed the eternal axiom that markets are colorblind.
And in the network news field, not only have viewers been fleeing old dinosaurs like CNN in favor of independent reporters and trustworthy individual investigators because of CNN’s long record of left-biased slants on news and because of CNN’s egregious promulgation of falsehoods, viewers have seen that this lack of veracity also has included network “news” time and money promoting itself as “racially sensitive” via its leftist “Race and Equality” unit.
Now, likely because viewers have turned away from this low-quality so-called news coverage, and because advertisers who see the viewers turning away from CNN are less likely to spend money on the network, the ratings-troubled net has made what some of its bold and race-baiting hosts might depict as a racist move...
...They’ve dropped their “Race and Equality” team.
Ariel Zilber reports for the New York Post:
“CNN quietly disbanded its ‘Race and Equality’ team of reporters as part of a major restructuring that included firing 100 staffers this week, according to a report.
There were three reporters that made up the unit, which was created by former CNN president Jeff Zucker in the aftermath of the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis in 2020.
One of the journalists was fired while the other two were reassigned to other departments, according to a newsletter written by black journalist Phil Lewis.”
And, of course, leave it to veracity-phobic CNN to complicate things by, yep, first denying the truth.
“A network spokesperson first claimed the Race and Equality team was not disbanded before admitting to Lewis that it will (no) longer exist as a mission-oriented unit.”
Nothing like trying to fix a problem, and then worsening a long series of mistakes.
Now, not only has CNN been caught tacitly acknowledging that its “Race and Equality” unit and the network’s seemingly incessant excuses for or blindness to just plain violence were not valuable enough to maintain viewership – now, as they engage in the very normal activity of cutting their losses, they try to deny their move.
Could that be due to the fact that CNN now can be accused of engaging in the very activity of which it frequently claimed “American businesses” was guilty, that of practicing “racial inequality”?
And, or, could that be due to the fact that the failure of their race-based, prejudiced, “team” indicates that hiring based on racial preferences is not a practice most Americans find salutary or beneficial, that, instead, people want quality, truth, and honesty?
And how about the fact that most folks don’t like being verbally abused and wrongfully accused of overt or “implicit racism” when they just want to live their lives in peace?
Deadline’s Ted Johnson offers information hinting that this CNN move is just a small indicator of the network’s economic problems:
“CNN Worldwide CEO Mark Thompson said that about 100 people would be impacted by the job cuts, or about 2.9% of its 3,500 employee workforce.”
But, have no fear, CNN-stalwarts! The network is ready to roll out a new subscription “service”!
A hard-hitting, news-oriented, “lifestyle content” service.
Writes the Post’s Zilber:
“As part of the restructuring, CNN will also roll out its first-ever subscription product for its CNN.com site.
Thompson said that the subscription offerings will be ‘want to use’ content produced by the network’s lifestyle journalists.”
Perhaps the CNN team is starting to learn that audiences aren’t lapping up what the network has portrayed as “news,” and that their best option is to push their plush “lifestyle” content because there are REAL journalists who are attracting audiences with their real reporting – and they often do it on their own.
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Whatever their new decisions are, one can doubt that they will address the elephants in the room: the fact that CNN has not been trustworthy, the fact that CNN has erroneously implied that vast portions of the American population are racist and focused on skin color for their activities, and the fact that CNN has engaged in just that kind of race-focus in pushing its holier-than-thou “Race and Equality” team.
Now, they can be accused of turning their backs on the very “race issue” that they promoted as being so terrible in America. CNN, itself, can be said to be acting “against minorities.”
As Sir Walter Scott wrote in the play, “Marmion,” a tale about a man who lies in order to marry a woman:
“Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when at first we practice to deceive.”
Marmion, thy contemporary name very well could be CNN.