In tonight’s email, some high-level thoughts on the long-awaited strategy innovations at CNN, The Washington Post, et al. Despite the bluster, it’s starting to feel like the grand plan is no plan at all. Discovery has signaled that it will invoke its matching rights to try to keep the NBA on TNT. A lot of commercial lawyers will be paid handsomely to figure out the answers to these questions. For anxious CNN staff, each cryptic Thompson pronouncement has been scrutinized as if he were Nostradamus.

Source: CNN May 18, 2024 01:11 UTC