<story><title>CNN cutting back on over-hyping everything as “breaking news”</title><url>https://www.axios.com/2022/06/02/cnn-breaking-news-guidelines</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tpmx</author><text>&lt;i&gt;[Discovery CEO] Zaslav and mentor and investor John Malone have been public about their push to bring CNN back towards hard news coverage, and away from progressive commentary.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I had missed that. That&amp;#x27;s very welcome - I hope they succeed. I imagine it could be very hard to pull this off after a ~decade of whatever CNN has been doing though.&lt;p&gt;More context: Discovery and WarnerMedia (former CNN parent company) merged back in April. The resulting entity &amp;quot;Warner Bros. Discovery&amp;quot; is led by David Zaslav, Discovery CEO since 2006.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>robonerd</author><text>But if they&amp;#x27;re moving away from commentary (progressive or otherwise), how are they going to fill their schedule with &amp;quot;hard news&amp;quot; while also not over-hyping?   Lack of real news is the whole reason they started over-hyping and also why they pad out their schedule with commentary.&lt;p&gt;The announcement reads like &lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;We&amp;#x27;re going to have our cake, and eat it too.&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;   Sounds great!  But is that actually possible?</text></comment>
<story><title>CNN cutting back on over-hyping everything as “breaking news”</title><url>https://www.axios.com/2022/06/02/cnn-breaking-news-guidelines</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tpmx</author><text>&lt;i&gt;[Discovery CEO] Zaslav and mentor and investor John Malone have been public about their push to bring CNN back towards hard news coverage, and away from progressive commentary.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I had missed that. That&amp;#x27;s very welcome - I hope they succeed. I imagine it could be very hard to pull this off after a ~decade of whatever CNN has been doing though.&lt;p&gt;More context: Discovery and WarnerMedia (former CNN parent company) merged back in April. The resulting entity &amp;quot;Warner Bros. Discovery&amp;quot; is led by David Zaslav, Discovery CEO since 2006.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drstewart</author><text>Unfortunately, this seems to be something that will go the way of the JCPenney CEO removing the constant never-ending sales banners.&lt;p&gt;If this were a winning strategy, most organizations would be coalescing around it already. The question is whether CNN will be able to stay the course _despite_ the hits to revenue&amp;#x2F;growth&amp;#x2F;viewers they will take with this approach.</text></comment>