From a Jack Shafer Fourth Estate column on politico.com headlined “The Biggest Change in Media Since Cable Is Happening Right Now”:

Never have the obituaries for a one-month-old read as harshly as the ones that marked the death of the streaming news operation CNN+.

“One of the most spectacular media failures in years,” read the coverage in the New York Times. It was, said the Times with just a smidgen of gloating, a “$300 million experiment that ended abruptly.” Boston Globe critic Don Aucoin patted the freshly turned earth with his shovel: “The rationale for CNN+ always seemed dubious, given the 24/7 ubiquity of the original cable-news channel.