CNN Center in Downtown Atlanta has been one the trash city’s biggest attractions since 1987. Now it’s closing down because like everything and everyone else associated with CNN, it’s a failure. The CNN hacks are closing CNN Center in Downtown Atlanta and will instead move it to pervert Ted Turner’s “Techwood” campus in midtown. I personally love seeing CNN crumbling before our eyes. There isn’t a biggest collection of arrogant, smug clowns who nobody watches than CNN. Atlanta is a total shithole and can’t sustain businesses in certain parts of downtown.
CNN Center’s most iconic moment was during the Black Lives Matter riots in 2020, when it was vandalized with graffiti, windows smashes and thugs stood on the logo. Fitting for CNN.
CNN has been a part of the fabric of Atlanta since local media magnate Ted Turner launched the network in 1980, and it’s literally been part of the city’s skyline and footprint since it moved to a prominent spot in downtown Atlanta in 1987.
Sadly, CNN has concentrated most of its operations in New York City and Washington, D.C., in recent years, and soon CNN’s downtown presence will only be a memory. The network is moving out of its downtown space in what we now know as the CNN Center.
“After more than 35 years, CNN is leaving its downtown mainstay in stages this year, with the entire operation moving back to renovated space at the 30-acre Turner Techwood campus in Midtown, according to a CNN spokeswoman,” reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Originally, the appeal of CNN locating itself in Atlanta was that it remained at a safe enough distance from the coastal elites to maintain an unbiased view of events, at least in theory. But the network gradually moved its operations to the places it initially sought to distance itself from. Only some of the behind-the-scenes operations remain in Atlanta.
And this year, CNN’s presence in the city’s downtown area will disappear. In 1987, Turner bought the former Omni Complex, located inside a hotel and briefly home to an ice-skating rink, a bar owned by Burt Reynolds, and the World of Sid & Marty Krofft, a failed indoor theme park. (I remember visiting the attraction as a young kid, and it was truly weird.)