It might have just been cheaper to set a stack of hundred dollar bills a thousand feet high on fire.

At least a little bit cheaper and a lot more entertaining.

CNN+, a streaming service with the bold idea that in a marketplace already overloaded with services and apps, people would pay $6 a month.

Why? Because they were CNN superfans.

CNN President Jeff Zucker billed CNN+ as being for “CNN superfans, news junkies and fans of quality non-fiction programming.”

After wasting $300 million, CNN had 10,000 daily users and 100,000 total users. 

If you can do basic math, which is more than anyone at CNN could do, that means $600,000 in revenue with $300 million in expenditures. 

Clearly, the folks here need to get jobs in the Biden administration or at the Federal Reserve.

A CNN executive described CNN+ as “the single biggest launch that CNN has had since Ted Turner launched the network in June of 1980.” The comparison isn’t accidental. CNN+ is meant to be the next era of CNN, and to eventually replace it when it dies its natural death on cable.

So much for that.

CNN+ has been shut down after just one month which means that CNN has no future.