Monday 13 December 2021

Wallace?

 Over Sunday's show.....Chris Wallace announced that his appearance on his Sunday chatter show (via Fox News) was going to be the last one.

The wording, if you gaze around various news outlets....was that Chris was leaving Fox. 

I pondered over this.  It's simply not a true statement.  He's not leaving Fox News.....he had zero options, they were not going to offer another contract.  

What Wallace says now...is that he's going over to CNN-Plus.

What's CNN-Plus?  Well....originally (1999)...it was the CNN attempt to create a Latino-CNN gimmick.  They gave it ten years, and deemed it a failure.

In the past year, they decided to bring back CNN-Plus but as a streaming news site (not Latino news).  

Is there a need for it?  My guess is that they are packaging this in a way....in three years....to sell it to someone (maybe Meta/Facebook....maybe Twitter).  

As for this being a big deal with Wallace leaving the Sunday talk show?  I'd argue that twenty-odd people are standing there and ready to take over the show.  It's not much of a big deal.

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