Well, if The New York Times is correct, the number of people seeing CNN content will get asymptotically close to zero soon.
The ailing network is struggling, and in an attempt to shore up its revenues, it will experiment with putting its content behind a paywall, making people kick in real money to access its content.
It’s a move I understand on an intellectual level. The revenue streams in media these days are few, with the vast majority going to social media which scoops up the content and feeds it to people while grabbing the dollars for the eyeballs. And as much as we hate the fact that content costs money to produce, the fact is that content costs money to produce.
CNN To Lock Content Behind Paywall ‘As Cable Television Erodes Industrywide’: Report https://t.co/ZFF6TtvLkt
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) September 27, 2024
Facebook generates enough ad revenue to use the money as…
