{"id":55099,"date":"2021-03-05T18:09:46","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T22:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=55099"},"modified":"2021-03-05T18:10:19","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T22:10:19","slug":"wow-cnns-parent-company-says-covid-has-been-great-for-ratings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=55099","title":{"rendered":"WOW! CNN&#8217;s parent company says Covid has been great for ratings."},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar apologized after celebrating the fact that the COVID-19 pandemic has been \u201creally good for (CNN) ratings.\u201d<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Jason Kilar provides accidental insight into why mainstream networks don\u2019t want lockdown restrictions to end.<\/h3>\n<p>Paul Joseph Watson<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_55101\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55101\" class=\"wp-image-55101 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/050321cnn1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/050321cnn1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/050321cnn1-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/050321cnn1-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-55101\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kevin C. Cox via Getty Images<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Kilar made the initial remarks during the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecom Conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt turns out that pandemic is a pretty big part of the news cycle, and that\u2019s not going away anytime soon,\u201d Kilar said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you take a look at the ratings and the performance, it\u2019s going well. And I think it\u2019s going well because, A, the team at CNN is doing a fantastic job. And B, it turns out that the pandemic and the way that we can help inform and contextualize the pandemic, it turns out it\u2019s really good for ratings,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DpQ9R92IsQs\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>WarnerMedia is the parent company of CNN.<\/p>\n<p>After his comments received criticism, Kilar tried to walk them back, claiming, \u201d I would like nothing more than for this pandemic to be well behind us.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-4\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=true&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-4&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1367465865076109312&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fsummit.news%2F2021%2F03%2F05%2Fwarnermedia-ceo-apologizes-after-saying-covid-pandemic-has-been-really-good-for-cnn-ratings%2F&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=e1ffbdb%3A1614796141937&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1367465865076109312\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kilar\u2019s hope that the pandemic is \u201cnot going away anytime soon\u201d provides an insight into the agenda of networks like CNN when it comes to COVID-19 reporting.<\/p>\n<p>Does CNN campaign against lockdown restrictions and mask mandates being lifted in the name of public safety, or is it more likely that a selfish motivation for maintaining high ratings is the real reason behind this editorial stance?<\/p>\n<div id=\"in-article\">\n<div class=\"ad\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>CNN recently enjoyed its best ever February in terms of overall viewers while also taking first place among viewers 25-54, the key demographic most valued by advertisers.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2021\/03\/05\/warnermedia-ceo-apologizes-after-saying-covid-pandemic-has-been-really-good-for-cnn-ratings\/\">https:\/\/summit.news\/2021\/03\/05\/warnermedia-ceo-apologizes-after-saying-covid-pandemic-has-been-really-good-for-cnn-ratings\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar apologized after celebrating the fact that the COVID-19 pandemic has been \u201creally good for (CNN) ratings.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}