CNN is already famous for its journalistic integrity, so it’s natural to expect it to partner with prediction market website Kalshi.
If Kalshi sounds somewhat familiar, it’s probably because you’ve heard the name in passing when Polymarket was discussed.
Here’s Kalshi’s partnership announcement on X:
I like the term “prediction market”, by the way, because it’s a more Orwellian way of saying “gambling”.
Which I think gives us a pretty good understanding of how things are going for CNN after the abject failure of their streaming platform. They’re now partnering up with a gambling website.
Except, instead of a game of cards, the bets are on outcomes of current events such as elections. Which has lots of potential for a conflict of interest when you understand that CNN might report on an outcome that doesn’t fit the official narrative when there’s piles of their viewers’ money at stake.
We’re talking about the kind of people who went to school for years to become journalists only to end up writing articles like the kind touting cuckolding, if you’d trust their financial advise, you were probably going to lose that money somehow, anyway.
In case you’re wondering which of the two is on the bottom in the relationship, here’s a video of CNN with a scrolling Kalshi prediction tracker:
Simply pathetic.
At this point, it’s a valid question: Who the hell still watches CNN? My guess is that it’s the same credulous dimwits who heard the Russian collusion hoax, the Storm Daniels hush money story, and the Sandman defamation, and believed the people on their television screens without even the slightest trace of inquiry.
And now, CNN wants them to become addicted to gambling so they don’t lose the viewers that they have left.
Here’s the best take on this matter that I’ve seen that wasn’t one of my own:
Which gets me suspicious that insider trading may have just evolved into a form that gets around the law, at least for the time being.
But CNN has just partnered with a gambling website. That Was Actually The News.
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