Comments on: CNN-Certainly Not News

By: Hans

Hans — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:41:16 +0000

I did a little search and found this article by Ted Turner, the founder of CNN.

There are others out there, but probably the best way to find his perspective on CNN specifically is to search for interviews with him. I saw him a couple weeks ago on Charlie Rose. Searching his name on the website showed the interview I saw, plus 2 older ones which were probably after he was forced out of CNN with the Time Warner Merger.
I don’t even bother watching HN, as that is more drivel than ever. If I could filter CNN for only reporting from Michael Ware or Christine Amanpour, I would watch them, but it is far and few between when they grace the airwaves.

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By: S EE

S EE — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 06:05:21 +0000

My wife & have been watching CNN election coverage tonight. At one point in the program under the guise of “breaking news” Anderson Cooper went into a complete COMMENTARY regarding Bill Clintons “tiered” in response to Todd Purdum’s (Vanity Fair) article. At one point during the report, as though on cue , we turned and looked at each other in disbelief of what we were hearing. This is not news, It’s a three-ring CIRCUS. The report went on in repetition for a good half hour before we finally had to change the channel.

We have been in support of Obama in the current election, so our response was not related to our convictions.

It’s really gotten to the point that the reporting on CNN is an insult to any form of intelligence. Who writes that cr@p? Is there anyone watching that really believes that they are watching the unbiased reporting? I hope not…..It would be funny if it wasn’t so pathetic.

What is kind of funny, is that it drove me to internet in search of others that might have noticed this low-level form of “journalism”. My Google search was “CNN sucks”. Guess how many pages came up in the search results……….

By: Regular Brotha

Regular Brotha — Thu, 22 May 2008 14:03:21 +0000

I agree. I noticed about 7 years ago how CNN changed it’s coverage to mimic Fox News-Lite.

At one point, when Bernard Shaw was with them especially, they actually had it right. Since Fox started garnering the Hillary working class white viewer along with the neo brained Republican viewer, CNN must have thought they had to appeal to those viewers also.

What they didn’t understand was that those viewers are not the majority of the news viewing public. This election between Obama and Hillary has demonstrated that while there quite a bit of white americans who are still color conscioused, there are also quite a bit of white americans who are not.

Those who are not are more likely to be the type who also don’t like how the government has been led theh past 7.5 years and know that it was those color conscious type of white working class people who voted for Bush though it was clear that a vote for Bush was not in their best interest, just like a vote for Billary is also not in their best interest (see NAFTA).