After murmurs lasting well over a year, CNN CEO Mark Thompson pulled the trigger Tuesday on his plan to supposed reinvigorate the annoyingly smug, dying, and far-left network (aside from greats Scott Jennings and David Urban) by charging frequent fliers of CNN.com — which in of itself is comical — a rate of $3.99 a month.
CNN and Thompson believe this will ensure the network’s survival, but those with even a short-term memory will recall the network launched on June 1, 1980 had already tried this with CNN+.
Liberal media hall monitor Brian Stelter announced it in a story Tuesday, nearly a month after he was rehired at the network to continue doing the mouthpiece work he had spent nine years doing from November 2013 to August 2022.
He wrote that, for now, “[t]he average visitor to CNN’s website, CNN’s website, who may only read a few articles a…
