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Salon
Salon
Politics
Nolan Higdon

CNN+ and the downfall of legacy media

CNN logo distorted on cracked phone screen Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images

It seems that any hope that legacy media had of recovering audiences was crushed by the recent and rapid collapse of CNN's streaming service, CNN+.

For the past decade, viewers and listeners have gradually been abandoning legacy broadcast media, which refers to news media institutions established before the digital era, such as ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News Channel, MSNBC, NPR and NBC.

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