What do you do now?
Establish a small commission to rifle through HR files of employees, current and former. Purge the sex pests, consequently have to restaff the entire core lineup, and then contact the most disgruntled leftist ex-employees to find a figurehead for the CNN rebrand of "rebuilding trust with the people". Make it an obvious shitshow so that the spectacle makes it worth keeping on the air. Let the figurehead in on the game and slowly build up "both sides" coverage. The socdem side of things will be mask-on marxists and revolutionary anarchists who refuse to disavow Antifa, Bernie Bros, etc, then go full left-wing Fox News to any and all controversy that breaks out. Meanwhile, have a "right winger" who's more of a libertarian conspiracist type. They have a main show that's standard ancap lite shit. Think old-school Anonymous, pirate party, "apolitical" type stuff. That person has a crossover show with the figurehead in the style of Crossfire as well as another show where they have on Marxists to debate. Give the standard fare a platform in the name of "transparency" and "freedom of speech". I'd probably have to do some "patriotic socialism" bullshit so I can accuse anyone who opposes it of hating America. Heavily gatekeep all the fascists currently using that term.
Now you'll have fascists who see what's going on for what it is: The thing they've been claiming liberals have been doing all along, but for real. And they'll hatewatch Guy Fawkes Anchor #4 and be taken aback when he starts doing the "you gotta hand it to him" stuff about their favorite fash bois. "He's going a bit too socialist for me, but you've gotta respect blah blah blah." Or you can have the socdems do this ironically as a joke. This last technique I stole from a TikToker who spent several months doxxing January 6th hogs to amass an audience of hate-watchers only to ironically praise Tucker Carlson with the Internationale playing in the background as he did his faux populism schtick. It's fucking ghoulish because it's wrong, but it also shot up search results for "Is Tucker Carlson a socialist?" up by several orders of magnitude.
You're not going to get away with turning CNN communist, but you can absolutely use the platform to disrupt present fascist figureheads and make it harder for them to organize. And you can build up the sort of liberal-proofing that fascists tend to have, at least with socdems. Plenty of coverage of foreign elections in a positive light. Encourage fascist splitting wherever possible. Constantly cover stories about how all the fascist leaders and organizers are feds. About how their numbers are small and weak. Do the thing to fascists that they want to do to all the marginalized people they seethe about: make them invisible and pitiful to the average viewer.
I would hire chris matthews first thing, tell him he's back baby, prime time show, and here's the gimmick - it's gonna be always outdoor, with live audiences, so it can be safe during the pandemic!
First episode is in central park
Look I don't know about the ins and outs of set design, if the crew says they have to build a wall just off-camera next to the desk then that's what we pay them for.
No, it's not a guillotine, it's some kind of gantry crane, are you a set designer or something Chris? C'mon champ get out there on stage!
Constantly report police domestic violence. Report any crime by a housed person and mention they're housed. Also imply crime is funny so the libs can get mad over my hypocrisy as if it matters. Whenever possible, instead of using old stock photos of a candidate or businessperson, use the photo of them with Ghislane or Epstein. Whenever there's a white collar crime have breathless reporters show up like they're covering a massive homicide, Nightcrawler style, and report on this massive white collar crime wave happening all the time. Suggest people lock their doors when visiting the financial district of major cities. Report on election interference by the DNC. Really toe the line between libel and what the mass media does everyday.
24/7 loop of drunken Matt Christman proclaiming, "God, Democrats suck ass! There is no hope! Kill yourself, and kill everyone around you!"
...and maybe some Parenti and Richard Wolff.
You know how channels will produce shows that explain complex topics to kids like, "The History of Rome - For Kids!"?
CNN will now be producing Theory for American Adults
Cool I guess we're canning all the staff, replacing it with you all, and pushing Maoist propaganda.
change the name of it from being cable news network to communist news network but keep the logo the same
and fire everyone and just film monkeys masturbating for live tv :monke-rage:
Surround myself with the finest of leftist journalists and content creators, but still parade as someone who himself is THE CNN and when the workers call me out and start to unionize, fire them all.
Oh, no, actually that's what nathan j robinson would do.
Let things run normal but hire a bunch of leftist reporters for afew story about Epstein and all of his connections, COINTELPRO, etc.
Run them nonstop until the CIA takes me out or replaces me.
Hire all the CIA agents to run the network, then send those programs out by analog radio, with the CIA and the BBC not existing we will see socialism in our lifetimes.
