Even having said all that, while CNN is not independent, it is indeed still a business.
CNN is not a business. They are a propaganda arm the New World Order, or whatever you want to call the people who created the fake pandemic. They lie 24/7 and they have been hemorrhaging viewers for many years. This absolutely would translate into huge losses and a major course correction if they were a business, which they are not. Pfizer and Moderna are fronts for the same people. They can not lose. They will never run out of funding and they don't have to worry about their vaccines being approved, since it was a foregone conclusion. The lower-level employees might think that they're working for a business subject to market forces, but they'd be wrong.