Not really related to the original point, but how dumb are people running CNN? Fox has a comedy show (Gutfield something or other) and I think it outdraws the major late night shows (although it's an hour earlier I believe) because it is the only "newsy" comedy show in its lane. The left has the Daily Show, plus the Tonight Show, the Late Show, whatever Jimy Kimmel's show is called, and Bill Maher and I guess John Stewart is back doing something and there are probably several others that are too small for me to even know of (does the unfunny blond haired "comedian" still have a show on Comedy central? Or is there some other daily show spinoff that replaced it?). So CNN is undoubtedly looking at Gutfield and thinking they want some of that, without thinking maybe Gutfield gets big ratings because he doesn't have any competition in his lane, so they are going to try to do "Gutfield, but on the left", too dumb to understand that there are already half a dozen of those shows.
I guess CNN's brand is probably damaged enough outside of the left that people in the middle and on the right wouldn't believe them if they said they were pivoting to the middle and pivoting to the middle would probably just piss off its relatively few remaining viewers, but you'd think somebody would have gotten tired of watching fox capture an outsized market just by having a different bias than every other network. I guess that's what OWN (or ONW? whatever network) is doing.
