The replies here show the loathing that people across the spectrum have for CNN and other corporate/mainstream news sources. Their credibility, accuracy and business models are past the point of saving.
Yet, Apple News, driven by Eddie Cue’s affinity for deal-making with legacy Hollywood and legacy media, continues to force feed these sources to us, along with a glut of ads and paywalled News+ content in an attempt to monetize content that no one wants to read in the first place. Every day “Top Stories” is the same hysterical headlines written by corporate shills doing the bidding of their investors, curated by “editors” who came from those very same publications.
GET RID of CNN, WaPo, WSJ, NBC, ABC, et al and make Apple News a force for good in the culture by giving a platform to emerging independent journalists. Apple has the opportunity to play a role in saving and reforming the institution of journalism instead of keeping the dying corpse of legacy media on life support. Do they have the courage and vision to seize it?
At least Apple TV is TRYING to create original content that’s a cut above the slop churned out by legacy Hollywood (e.g. taking a successful risk on the original F1 script instead of making another sequel or franchise from existing IP). Apple News and Apple Arcade meanwhile perpetuate the lowest common denominator slop that has become typical of the media and mobile gaming industries.
Stop siding with the establishment and do something to give people the fresh and truthful journalism they are craving.
