Lionel Nation - CNN Announces Gayle King and Charles Barkley to Host New Primetime Show
Aired: 2023-04-24
Duration: 11:09


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[00:01:31]  I am nothing short of fascinated with the transmogrification, the evolution, the changing, the shape-shifting, Of CNN and the prototypical historical heritage usual media that we know.
[00:01:52]  I am beyond nonplussed, gobsmacked to an extent over how things are changing drastically.

=== Cnn's Legacy And Change (09:11) ===

[00:02:03]  And there's two reactions I have to this.
[00:02:06]  Number one, regarding Mr. Chris Licht, who was...
[00:02:13]  Stewarding the helm of CNN first.
[00:02:17]  You are in one unique position.
[00:02:20]  Why is that?
[00:02:22]  CNN is the lightning rod.
[00:02:26]  CNN, and by the way, for those from my generation, around 1980-ish, you know, right around that early 80s, when CNN became CNN, it was the greatest thing anybody's ever seen.
[00:02:39]  Larry King!
[00:02:42]  There's never been anything like Larry King ever.
[00:02:45]  9 o 'clock every night, appointment, Larry King, Bernard Shaw, Peter Arnett, that other one.
[00:02:54]  I mean, it was something else during the Gulf War.
[00:02:58]  It was CNN.
[00:03:00]  This is CNN.
[00:03:01]  Oh my God, it was it.
[00:03:05]  And Ted Turner was a genius.
[00:03:08]  Ted Turner, who came along and said, I'm going to start my own network, and I'm not necessarily going to follow the same rules.
[00:03:15]  I may not start exactly the top of the hour.
[00:03:17]  I may go five after.
[00:03:19]  This was the time of cable, which was the greatest thing in the world.
[00:03:21]  I remember I saw WCW Wrestling, Superstation, WTBS, Gordon Soley, my hero and friend, on Georgia Championship Wrestling.
[00:03:32]  It was fantastic.
[00:03:34]  It was wonderful.
[00:03:37]  And then CNN was, oh, plane crashes.
[00:03:40]  That was it.
[00:03:42]  There was Sirius put on CNN.
[00:03:44]  CNN!
[00:03:48]  It was it.
[00:03:49]  Nobody could get near it.
[00:03:51]  Every person was like from Central casting these, you know, Cronkite-esque types.
[00:04:03]  And then, I don't know what happened.
[00:04:06]  I have no idea what happened.
[00:04:09]  It became the lightning rod.
[00:04:11]  It became the...
[00:04:12]  I don't know what it became.
[00:04:14]  And I'm not saying that's fair.
[00:04:16]  And I'm not necessarily lauding that fact.
[00:04:19]  But certain acquisitions came.
[00:04:25]  Chris Cuomo.
[00:04:29]  Don Lemon.
[00:04:32]  Brian Stelter?
[00:04:35]  Brian Stelter?
[00:04:40]  And if, I mean, you might like their opinions.
[00:04:44]  It wasn't news per se, but something happened a la Fox with these two countervailing positions.
[00:04:53]  Fox and this.
[00:04:54]  Oh my God, what did we do?
[00:04:56]  Where did we go with this?
[00:04:57]  Oh my God.
[00:04:58]  Well, we don't know.
[00:05:00]  But it's fascinating.
[00:05:02]  And then it just, something happened.
[00:05:07]  Fox, in terms of the business model, just took off.
[00:05:10]  I just heard recently regarding this Dominion case, you have $8 billion in cash on hand.
[00:05:15]  $8 billion?
[00:05:16]  What?
[00:05:17]  And CNN, remember CNN Plus?
[00:05:20]  They didn't even start.
[00:05:22]  They didn't even put the...
[00:05:24]  Remember in the old days how they would paint the name of the company on the glass?
[00:05:28]  Nothing!
[00:05:28]  It's gone!
[00:05:29]  Gone!
[00:05:30]  And I didn't understand why people were clapping.
[00:05:33]  Yeah!
[00:05:33]  I said, those people have jobs.
[00:05:36]  Innocent people there who are line producers and folks, they have nothing to do with politics.
[00:05:42]  It's just a job.
[00:05:43]  What are you so happy about?
[00:05:44]  And it got to be really serious.
[00:05:46]  This enmity.
[00:05:51]  And you can quote me on that.
[00:05:52]  How do you spell that?
[00:05:53]  I don't know.
[00:05:56]  And with Dominion, people were just clamoring.
[00:05:58]  They wanted to say, fuck, pay up.
[00:06:01]  This is the end of conservative.
[00:06:03]  I don't know if it's the end of it.
[00:06:05]  When did it become, how did it come like this?
[00:06:08]  What did that happen?
[00:06:09]  Anyway.
[00:06:11]  So now, Chris Licht, this poor guy, I mean, and you read these stories, I don't believe what I mean.
[00:06:18]  And there's a walkout, and the rank and file is screaming, what are you doing?
[00:06:23]  What are you doing, Chris Licht?
[00:06:25]  I don't know.
[00:06:26]  What are you doing?
[00:06:28]  Okay.
[00:06:29]  Well, I think this is one of the most brilliant moves ever.
[00:06:34]  Did you hear this?
[00:06:35]  The quotes are fantastic.
[00:06:39]  The quotes from CNN itself.
[00:06:41]  One of the ones, I love this.
[00:06:43]  Charles Barkley says, I want the show to be non-political.
[00:06:47]  You know, Gayle King is going to be a straight shooter.
[00:06:50]  I'm going to be a straight shooter.
[00:06:52]  I know she's going to be fair and honest.
[00:06:54]  And you know I'm going to do the same thing.
[00:06:56]  What does that mean?
[00:06:57]  I don't know.
[00:06:58]  I think that decorum and courtesy and kindness always work.
[00:07:02]  Okay.
[00:07:03]  Don't scare people with these promises of politeness.
[00:07:06]  For whatever you do, please don't do this.
[00:07:08]  Be very careful.
[00:07:09]  Don't do this.
[00:07:10]  I know people want to do it right away.
[00:07:12]  They love so much.
[00:07:13]  Oh, we're going to show each other the love and respect.
[00:07:17]  Well, you know, within reason.
[00:07:20]  You know, within reason.
[00:07:21]  Don't go too crazy on this.
[00:07:24]  A little bit of a...
[00:07:26]  Okay, so all I'm saying is, look.
[00:07:28]  Good luck and see what happens and whatever.
[00:07:31]  What I'm telling you, Is that this is one of the most brilliant moves because people are going to want to tune in just to see it.
[00:07:40]  Don't you love it?
[00:07:42]  I mean, when they say, I want to be non-political.
[00:07:46]  Oh, one could be a bit sarcastic and say, well, it wasn't political before.
[00:07:54]  Why should it be now?
[00:07:55]  But it's brilliant.
[00:07:57]  And this goes to show you the fact that things are changing now.
[00:08:01]  What used to be considered The news, throw that model away.
[00:08:07]  It's completely different.
[00:08:10]  Capisce?
[00:08:12]  Completely, totally different.
[00:08:16]  Everything, whatever you thought, whatever your ideas were about, whatever, it's done right now.
[00:08:23]  And let me tell you where the real future, not even the future, the reality, is here.
[00:08:31]  You're looking at it.
[00:08:32]  Not necessarily me.
[00:08:33]  No.
[00:08:34]  This.
[00:08:35]  This.
[00:08:37]  You're seeing, I'm sorry to say, the last vestiges of a medium, of a format.
[00:08:45]  Think of it as, dare I be so cruel, in some respects, as a star who burned out years ago, thousands of years ago, whose light has not reached us.
[00:09:00]  But you still see the star, but it's not there.
[00:09:05]  It's not there.
[00:09:08]  You remember it.
[00:09:10]  The light hasn't hit you.
[00:09:12]  And to the people, I want CNN and everybody to obviously keep working.
[00:09:17]  I know this sounds Pollyanna-ish, or Pollyanna-ish, I guess, but I think the more opinion, the better it is.
[00:09:28]  Give me something to bounce off.
[00:09:31]  Give me something, just because I don't necessarily care for it.
[00:09:35]  Here in New York, we have every conceivable type of cuisine you can imagine.
[00:09:41]  Eight different variations of Mexican, from Oaxacan to Sinaloa to whatever.
[00:09:49]  And whether you like or don't like Mexican food, the very fact that there's a multiplicity of flavors and ideas and cuisines means A good culinary world.
[00:10:00]  And so I like the same thing with opinion.
[00:10:03]  I may not watch it, so what?
[00:10:05]  My opinion, my views are rather unique, rather sui generis, so consequently I look accordingly to what I find interesting.
[00:10:14]  But what we are seeing right now is something that I'm telling you is going to be sheer genius.
[00:10:20]  They're going to be watching this.
[00:10:21]  And this is also, if this even remotely works or is...
[00:10:26]  Perceived to be working.
[00:10:28]  You're going to be seeing this everywhere.
[00:10:31]  Everywhere.
[00:10:32]  A complete and total refabrication, a transmogrification, a reformulation, a reiteration of everything that you thought news programs was all about.
[00:10:45]  So keep an eye on this.
[00:10:46]  Let's wish everybody good luck.
[00:10:47]  I mean this.
[00:10:48]  I mean this sincerely.
[00:10:50]  The more opinion, the better we are.
[00:10:52]  Alright?
[00:10:53]  Terrific.
[00:10:53]  Now, as long as there are no more Competitive competition food shows.
[00:10:59]  Cooking competition shows.
[00:11:01]  Those are the bane of my existence.
[00:11:03]  And they are an example that society is imploding.
[00:11:06]  In any event, have a great and glorious day.
[00:11:08]  Don't ever change and mean that sincerely.