CNN Rebranding Was A Total Failure & Computer Algorithm Used To Deny Medical Claims At Rapid Pace

CNN tried to rebrand their network recently, and the results are even worse than before. Viewers are shutting off the network at a rate that suggests CNN could be a footnote in the history books if they can’t find an audience soon. Plus, major health insurance companies have stopped using humans to review insurance claims, and they are now just using computer algorithms to deny claims for millions of American patients. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.

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CNN tried to rebrand their network recently, and the results actually, they're even worse than before. Viewers are shutting off the network at a rate that suggests that CNN could be a footnote in the history books if they can't find an audience. You know, when I looked at this story, the thing that occurred to me, why has nobody, why has there not been a shareholder derivative suit making Zucker, that idiot, the target of that suit. Zucker came in, he thought he could make some quick advertising money by taking the programming completely, utterly to attack, you know, a left attack, attack attack attacking the right. Well, even as it was happening, shareholders were saying, what the hell's going on? You're losing audience. Zucker, and I bet he has another job somewhere. I bet the industry is so incestuous.

It is.

That this idiot that destroyed an entire, this was a credible network at one time. This was where they did, they reported the news. And so the issue, the shareholders were saying, go back to reporting the news again. People want to hear the news. They don't want to hear that Brian Stelter or, you know, whoever the flakes were that they had attacking right wing all the time. The same thing with Fox. Fox is getting into the same problem because they, just report the news. Tell us what the news is. Don't tell us what to think.

Well, and that's CNN's problem is they've got this huge identity crisis. At least Fox News, they know they're Republican. MSNBC, they know they're Democrats. CNN always kind of said, well, what are, are we left? Are we right? No, no, no, no. We're kind of neither. But then you attract neither, and you're also not doing journalism. You're not sending embedded reporters to go across the world doing these undercover investigations. You're not 60 minutes. You're not helping consumers. You're just fluff. You're just nothing is what CNN became.

Why are they, why are they hanging onto Don Lemon, for example? Okay. He's always shown as liability. It's almost like they don't have enough sense to move it through when it's not working. So at this point, they're bringing in everybody. They're bringing in Barkley, they're bringing in Bill Maher, they're bringing in celebrities. The celebrities are now gonna be giving the news. And that's a little scary. Did you see, every time I think of celebrities telling me what I ought to think about politically, I think of Chelsea Handler. Do you know the story about Chelsea Handler where when she was 40 years old, I'm not making this up and if you don't believe me, Google this story, when she was 40 years old is the first time she knew that the sun was different than the moon. She thought it was all one entity. And when she went to Africa, somebody explained, no, they're two different things, at 40 years old. So now Licht is saying, well, let's bring in all the celebrities to give us the news. Doesn't that scare you just a little bit?

Yeah. And they bring in the celebrities and the ratings continue to go down. They've tried, okay, we're gonna do town halls. We're gonna have a town hall with the, was it Glenn Youngkin, you know, he's gonna tell us all the right wing policies. It tanked. You had a, I mean, their traffic that day was so bad.

Our traffic is better than, our traffic is better than their traffic. Okay. Now come on.

Right. I never thought we'd be doing better than CNN, but here we are. But that's the problem is CNN, like all the rest of these corporate news outlets, they thought they could tell the news without telling the news to off their advertisers.

Yeah.