What do you guys think of CNN?

mynews wrote:

So what is everyone’s go to news source?

BBC World News and The Economist.

I used to watch CNN until several years ago. Their rating was falling because they were sandwiched by Fox News and MSNBC. So they adopted this WWE style of news analysis with people on both sides insulting each other on screen. That made it unwatchable.

I now watch CNN only once a week. Fareed Zakaria's GPS. Most of his guests are real policy experts, and not partisan hacks.

However, they are still the best when it comes to election coverage. John King's Magic Wall can provide so much more raw data in shorter time than anything Fox News or MSNBC could match. Their technology got even better since 2016. I look forward to their coverage in 2022. Until then, I will just stick to my weekly routine.

When I was in college, I would spend several hours per day watching and reading the news from a variety of sources. At that time, ~2009, CNN was easily the best of the major US networks. Fox was not just very conservative but ridiculous with guys like Glenn Beck and the Fox and Friends people from that era, and MSNBC was blatantly left-wing but still of decent quality. CNN really had quality people and shows though.

I'm not sure when exactly the transition happened, maybe with the rise of social media, but all the major networks have gone downhill over the last 10 years, and CNN is now among the worst news networks out there in my opinion. It's pretty bad, like, they aren't even trying to do quality work anymore. Fox has actually become one of the best news outlets even if some of the people on there are still pretty silly. MSNBC is such garbage it's not worth paying any attention to at all. Even if you want left-wing news, there are far better outlets for it.

Unfortunately, it seems to me that if you really want to know what's going on these days, you have to rely largely on smaller networks that mainly have a presence on social media. Follow media organizations that put out a lot of raw video. All the major news networks deliberately try to spin everything, but there's not much spin when all you're watching is raw video with no commentary. You can just watch and make up your own mind about what you saw.

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I still think it’s ok to get news from the major networks, but you need to check multiple sources. You’ll quickly see what parts of a story are being sensationalized and what parts are actual facts by seeing the differences in coverage between the sources.

BLM!! wrote:

I still think it’s ok to get news from the major networks, but you need to check multiple sources. You’ll quickly see what parts of a story are being sensationalized and what parts are actual facts by seeing the differences in coverage between the sources.

This. But, here's a question...If we just listened to what the people being interviewed say, aren't we getting unbiased news? If a reporter is interviewing a senator, mayor, prez etc, don't you think that what they say is unbias even if the reporter frames the question to elicit a specific type of response? The interviewee doesn't have to bite.

CNN is left leaning

Fox is right leaning.

Both offer their take on the world and the issues of the day.

CNN has fallen victim to sensationalism and allowed bias to bleed through. Social media, polarized opinions and shortened attention spans have fed the machine of churning out bombastic headlines with no journalistic integrity behind them.

Coverage of Trump has only amplified this, everyone is scrambling to get clicks to generate revenue and blowing everything out of proportion to get attention. Anonymous sources, rumors, etc used to be only for tabloid news but now it’s the backbone of many networks. Speculation is now considered content.

If you want to watch ugly media spin in action look up Trump’s koi pond “scandal”. CNN shows him dumping the fish food in the pond like a dunce, Cuomo flips about how he is destroying our image on the international stage, they bring on a fish expert to explain how this could have killed many fish in this sacred pond. Raw video shows the Japanese PM dumping his then turning to Trump, who followed suit then dumps his. CNN cropped the video to cut out the Japanese PM and made it look like Trump just absent mindedly chose to throw the food in. Blatant manipulation but gets washed away in the storm of tabloid headlines

sick of it all wrote:

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With the rise of Fox News as a voice for conservatives, CNN has noticeably shifted to be a mouthpiece for liberals and the Democrats. It's astounding to watch alternate shows on Fox and CNN and see how they report about the same issues, or how they completely neglect and subvert stories important to conservatives that might detract from liberal causes, whether Bengazi or Hunter Biden's emails. Yes, Fox overplays their take on things, but if CNN is true critical journalism as it claims to be, it should've investigated and reported on issues like those.....

You clearly know nothing about journalism and reporting.

They DID look at the Hunter laptop facade. And like every other major media outlet they saw it was nonsense. So they don't mention it. It's NOT a story. Even discussing it at all brings a credibility to something that's as none. It is complete, unsupportable hogwash.

This is the same reason even FOX turned the story down when it was brought to them. As did everybody else, except the tabloid NY Post.

If they look at it and see it's made up drivel, they don't report on it. Nor should anyone.

You WANTING it to be a thing doesn't make it a thing.

They DID cover Benghazi. They just didn't plant their flag on it and pretend Hillary Clinton is She-devil for something that happened which she had no real control over. Are FOX still talking about that?

I think CNN international is good. They obviously fill their prime time with opinion people that have a liberal slant, similar to how Fox News does with conservative people.

All you need to know about CNN is on display at this exact moment. It's Thanksgiving day and their front-page headline is "Indigenous people want their land back".

CNN's front page headline plans for Christmas 2020 and beyond:

Christmas 2020: Why Jesus' birth is a myth, according to science

New Year's 2021: The Chinese New Year is more historically significant

Presidents Day 2021: The growing movement to stop annual celebration of slaveowners and white supremacists

St. Patrick's Day 2021: How St. Patrick's Day excludes African-Americans

Independence Day 2021: The British Empire wants their land back

Wow. 3 pages in one day. I never thought such a mundane question would get hits.

Irish runner Siobhan wrote:

The best American news network I’ve seen.

We get CNN and Fox here on satellite and everyone laughs at Fox News.

Yep, same all over the world where we can see the difference between news and opinion

CNN wrote:

All you need to know about CNN is on display at this exact moment. It's Thanksgiving day and their front-page headline is "Indigenous people want their land back".

And whats wrong with that?

What are you thankful for?

sick of it all wrote:

. It's astounding to watch alternate shows on Fox and CNN and see how they report about the same issues, or how they completely neglect and subvert stories important to conservatives that might detract from liberal causes, whether Bengazi or Hunter Biden's emails. Yes, Fox overplays their take on things, but if CNN is true critical journalism as it claims to be, it should've investigated and reported on issues like those.

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I run on the treadmill at a Planet Fitness while watching youtube on my tablet. Planet Fitness has 8 or 9 tv channels they show including Fox News and CNN. Every once in a while I glance up at the tvs and they have some idiotic headline that any imbecile could tell is completely a biased opinion of an event and is in no way actual news that would affect the general population. After all these years, I am still bewildered why anyone would subject themselves to waste their time on that garbage.

I watch CNN and Fox and CNN is certainly all-in when it comes to hitting Trump hard, but they don't manufacture news. Fox has pretty much become the state news.

As worthless as Faux News

CNN is way worse than Fox, in terms of bias / slant / whatever.

CNN wrote:

CNN's front page headline plans for Christmas 2020 and beyond:

Christmas 2020: Why Jesus' birth is a myth, according to science

New Year's 2021: The Chinese New Year is more historically significant

Presidents Day 2021: The growing movement to stop annual celebration of slaveowners and white supremacists

St. Patrick's Day 2021: How St. Patrick's Day excludes African-Americans

Independence Day 2021: The British Empire wants their land back

We don't hate blacks, gays, immigrants, transgender people, nor women. But when CNN and it's liberal sheep keep putting out crap like this, it makes us hate liberal ideology and its sheep. Time for the Democratic party to take its party back?