RIP CNN+. Murdered because it should never have existed.
CNN+ was a news service that was too beautiful to this world. Maybe. Probably. …who can say for sure if nobody watched it?
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CNN+ is dead. The plus service will stream its last stream on April 30.
Why is it being shut down? CNN+ isn't the Quibi of 2022. That was a service that launched with the full support of its backers, but was rejected by a disinterested public. Instead, CNN+ was birthed into the world just as a new boss who had zero interest in seeing it exist was set to …