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[–]StillLessons 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

The actual interview is secondary to the real story here.

The real story is the decision by CNN to give him airtime in the first place. There's a lot to unpack in that decision. Let your mind wander far enough, and we find Trump and Biden dancing together in a field of daisies laughing their asses off watching all of us taking sides with either of them, as though they're actually opposed...

Remember from 1984, the Party created Goldstein. He is an equally important tool for The Party as Big Brother.

[–]noshore4me 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

The real story is ratings. CNN lost 50% of their primetime viewership when Trump was out of office: https://www.businessinsider.com/cnn-ratings-have-crashed-since-donald-trump-left-the-white-house-2021-3?op=1

They bring him in a couple years later and voila: https://deadline.com/2023/05/donald-trump-cnn-town-hall-ratings-1235363575/

[–]StillLessons 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The people with sufficient power to determine media coverage have goals they prioritize more highly than they do ratings. Otherwise, CNN wouldn't have chosen to trash their ratings in the first place, which was a calculated decision over a period of years. The current Tucker situation is the other tell. Ratings are very much a secondary concern stacked against propaganda flow. In a related vein, Anheiser Busch took a flamethrower to their brand, and the reasoning behind that was not market share, as the results demonstrate.