“With cable and streaming, everything is a niche now, and CNN had somewhat of a niche anti-Trump resistance audience like Stephen Colbert did during the Trump administration. Chris Licht comes in and says we’re going to go back to old CNN, people are going to tune into us for Ukraine war coverage that they can trust to be right down the middle,” Jashinsky said. “Well, you can try to rebuild an audience, but you’re probably going to lose … the small little niche audience that you had. When you’re trying to transition back to mass media, it’s just not going to work. … You can’t have both.”
Jashinsky On Rapid Decline Of Corporate Media
