CNN, every mention
25 scenes (2022), the whole family · ← back to CNN
tap a year for its mentions
every year 2022 anyone Jason Calacanis 84David Sacks 59Chamath Palihapitiya 26David Friedberg 19Shayne Coplan 6Tucker Carlson 4Mark Cuban 4Senator Ted Cruz 2Phil Hellmuth 2Steve Bannon 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where CNN comes up
E108: Doxing debate, Nuclear fusion breakthrough, state of the markets & more
- ▶ 13:05 David Sacks Let's, let's talk about CNN's hypocrisy and the media's hypocrisy, because earlier in the week, they were saying that any criticism of Yoel Roth, who is Twitter's former head of trust and safety,
E106: SBF's media strategy, FTX culpability, ChatGPT, SaaS slowdown & more
- ▶ 53:47 Chamath Palihapitiya And, um, I had this crazy experience where I was trying to understand what was going on in China, and so I started on CNN, and the whole thing was the propaganda machine around a democratic revolt, you know, pushing for democracy and…
E105: Tech culture wars: Elon vs. SBF, Sabotaging Republicans with Trump
- ▶ 9:10 David Sacks And in fact, CNN ran his entire speech announcing last Tuesday, I think for this reason.
E103: Tech layoffs surge, big tech freezes hiring, optimizing for profits, election preview & more
- ▶ 54:24 David Sacks There was an interesting article actually on CNN where they, it's called Five Scary Numbers for Democrats, and what they point to is that Biden right now has a 42% approval rating.
E102: Elon closes Twitter deal, $META uncertainty, Zuck's historic bet, big tech decline & more
- ▶ 1:07:47 David Sacks Being one of the people who recanted, he stood tall and gave an interview on CNN and MSNBC saying, why has diplomacy become a dirty word?
E96: Adobe acquires Figma for $20B, TPB SPAC, FedEx CEO's recession warning, macro picture & more
- ▶ 1:10:19 David Sacks And you have to wonder, you know, I tweeted a few months ago that the White House economic advisor, Brian Deese, he said that in this interview with CNN, that the Biden administration was willing to endure a global recession in order to…
E93: Twitter whistleblower, cloud security vulnerabilities, student debt forgiveness & more
- ▶ 11:03 David Sacks So what he said is, so this is from a CNN business article. 5 times in the scene
E92: Adam Neumann's second act, a16z's $350M bet, housing policy, Inflation Reduction Act & more
- ▶ 1:29:31 Jason Calacanis Jeffrey Toobin was a CNN anchor who on Zoom accidentally was, no, he masturbated on a Zoom call with his, what the fuck does that have to do with beef jerky?
E84: Markets update, crypto collapse, Russia/Ukraine endgame, state of the podcast
- ▶ 1:35:26 David Sacks But you gotta remember, CNN had him on there every day because he was a fighter.
#AIS: Bestie AMA with Valor's Antonio Gracias
- ▶ 47:32 Chamath Palihapitiya So, my question is, in the 22, twenty-twenty-two predictions, uh, episode, Chamath, you talk about, uh, all in media idea, and starting an all in media channel, maybe, and I wonder if you guys have talked about that anymore, your, your…
- ▶ 1:28:58 Jason Calacanis Um, and then maybe hiring Tim Urban and, ah, Nate Silver, and then having them build a media company to take on CNN.
#AIS: Glenn Greenwald & Matt Taibbi discuss the new political divide, moderated by David Sacks
- ▶ 13:30 Matt Taibbi Like, we, we see the declining, um, the declining ratings of, of companies like CNN and MSNBC, uh, which were previously thought of as more kind of down the road, down the middle of the road news agencies,
- ▶ 33:27 unnamed speaker I, you know, I think, I think in addition to what you guys just talked about in terms of NBC or MSNBC and CNN copying the model, there has been a radical change in the composition of the Republican party ideologically because of Trump, not…
E77: Tech work culture, crypto regulation, stablecoins, $NFLX & more w/ Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong
- ▶ 54:58 David Friedberg Even companies that are not able to deliver like CNN shut down CNN plus this week, after investing three hundred million dollars in trying to build out the service.
E75: Fast shuts down, board culpability, Elon buys 9% of Twitter, deplatforming's evolution & more
- ▶ 53:07 David Sacks On CNN where Pinterest evolved.
E71: Russia/Ukraine deep dive: escalation, risk factors, financial fallout, exit ramps and more
- ▶ 6:22 David Sacks From the State Department, who frequently is the go-to source for CNN and other publications, also saying we're already in World War III.
- ▶ 11:23 David Sacks And then I saw on all the cable news networks, all of them, there was no difference between Fox and CNN, MSNBC, same reporting.
- ▶ 53:37 David Friedberg And I wouldn't take anything that I'm reading on Twitter or seeing on CNN or hearing some commentator from the United States making some comment about, nor would I feel the same about any commentator in the Ukraine or Russia, or anywhere…
E70: EMERGENCY POD! Russia invades Ukraine: Reactions, Putin's ambition, Biden's response and more
- ▶ 6:24 David Friedberg But if over the next couple of weeks, this continues or days, and I was just looking at CNN this morning and BBC and there were these images that started to come out of like, you know, Ukrainian.
- ▶ 33:25 David Friedberg Remember CNN got their, got their big, um, start with the Gulf War. 3 times in the scene
E68: Trudeau invokes emergency powers, Bitcoin vs. government, Tiger Global's new strategy and more
- ▶ 17:55 David Sacks You have this CNN contributor, Juliette Kayyem, who's also a Harvard professor, who basically tweeted that Trudeau needed to slash their tires, empty the gas tanks,
E67: Revisiting Rogan, Canadian truckers' protest, fusion breakthrough, $MSFT's savvy move & more
- ▶ 20:40 David Sacks And then the media got in on this and CNN and MSNBC, they were throwing stones.
- ▶ 42:21 David Sacks Basically implying that the civil disobedience needs to be met by force, and then you've got Harvard professors and CNN analysts saying, slash their tires, take away their trucking licenses, starve them out, you know.
E66: $FB's big drop, Rogan/Spotify mess, Xi/Putin meetup & supply chain issues with Ryan Petersen
- ▶ 1:19:15 David Sacks We saw that Tucker Carlson now gets more young Democrats listening to his show than CNN and MSNBC, and I'm telling you, this is the reason why.
E64: Antitrust standards & enforcement, tech repricing, lab leak obfuscation, E63 reactions & more
- ▶ 1:30:05 Jason Calacanis And all of this is going to come out eventually and not putting out every day the ages, um, and the comorbidities of people who died of COVID just led to this feeling that we're getting gamed and turning on CNN and seeing the case counts…