CNN+ ass-rapes itself

You may have heard about CNN's attempt to make a subscription service called CNN+ (pronounce it "CNN plus"). Why anyone would pay for the crap CNN churns out is beyond me, but CNN apparently thought they could produce quality content and peg it to a subscription model. The effort to create the new service enticed journalist (well, "journalist") Chris Wallace away from Fox News, where Wallace had been a cantankerously crypto-liberal presence for years. "Good riddance," said Fox (and many conservatives) as Wallace left. (Wallace has the distinction of being the son of the equally arrogant and temperamental Mike Wallace, a polymath who hailed from the Edward R. Murrow era of journalism and was famous for his time as a host on "60 Minutes.") So Wallace fils joined CNN+, and CNN+ got rolled out.

The rollout bombed spectacularly. Only 10,000 people signed up for the service, not even enough people to fill half of a small stadium. To be fair, that's still 10,000 people stupid enough to pay for crap content. The failure of the rollout is still being felt—and mocked—in many circles. One snarky rightie tweeted that "CNN+ didn't even last as long as Jeffrey Toobin during a Zoom meeting." (Toobin infamously and obliviously began masturbating on camera during a Zoom conference; he temporarily lost his job after the incident but somehow managed to get it back, which shows you we are surrounded by garbage people.)

Instapundit has a post saying that Warner Bros. Discovery is shutting CNN+ down, which means, hilariously, that Chris Wallace, that prima donna, is already out of a job. I seriously doubt that Fox will want the asshole back, but you never know: if Jeffrey Toobin can whack off on camera and still have a job, Chris Wallace could end up back on Fox. Stranger things have happened, and this criminal network of rotten journos helps its own.