by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
With the gradual — or maybe not so gradual — switch to streaming, things that simply were not fathomable are now very real: something big is going to happen to CNN soon.
It’s possible that CNN could either merge with MSNBC (MSNOW) or — gulp — be bought by some right wing plutocrat. The point is, CNN as I knew it for 30 years or more could change in a rather dramatic fashion pretty soon.
It’s really interesting that cable is going through such a dramatic transformation. But, here we are. Everything is going to streaming and one day even CNN could be exclusively a streaming service.
And, yet, there is another option — it could be that CNN will become an AI agent. Here’s how it would work: everyone would have an “anchor” agent who would draw upon specialists in this or that field.
CNN might be a service you subscribe to, but a number of different specialist AI agents that you subscribe to a la carte.
Or something. Something like that.
The point is, CNN as we know it may not escape the AI revolution in ways that we have yet to understand.
