The Collapse of CNN

The American Interest ^ | August 17, 2012 | John Ellis

[blam]

Glenn Beck says he has more paying viewers at GBTV than CNN (Communist News Network) has people viewing for free.

[JPG]

CNN constantly has their thumb on the Obama side of the scale. People do notice.

[Iron Munro]

"CNN actually matters."

Only as a source of fiction ...

[hadaclueonce]

CNN? They are still on?

[Jordo]

I don’t understand why so many people have fallen for the left’s propaganda that the gulf war started in 1991. This is like claiming that world war two started on D-Day.

In reality, the war started in 1990, when Iraq invaded Kuwait. The war was started by Saddam Hussein, not by George Bush.

I guess it just goes to show that if you repeat a lie often enough, even people who write for “The American Interest” will start to believe it.

Now that I got that off my chest, I can finish reading the article...

[xzins]

How does that rate on the Warp scale?

Is that closer to Warp 1 or Warp 10? It seems like it would be really fast, but Warp took them across the universe pretty quickly. Except for Voyager, of course, which never could seem to find its way back. (And I’ve never seen the final episodes, due to overseas deployment through that year. :-(

[WaterWeWaitinFor]

Peter Arnett and Bernard Shaw WERE the ones and probably anyone with cable WAS glued to their TVs at the time. But when later the Arnette traitor absolutely refused to debrief info AND flat out said when asked if he would warn OUR military if he had pertinent facts that would be harmful TO our military, I believe he said NO.

At that point I was so appalled I never had any reason to watch CNN again. Now one of the debates will be anchored by that Candy Crowley who was having a tizzy fit on air about Paul Ryan not having a TIE on, when announced last weekend. SHE was chosen? WHY and the GOP/RNC says we are overreacting. As Paul Ryan continues to say - you are either part of the problem or part of the solution. Well folks - WE need to be part of the solution. Let's get on this - volunteer do what you can for victory in November.

[Crimson Elephant]

There is actually a pretty interesting conspiracy theory about CNN being in Iraq back in the day. Some funny youtube videos of off camera moments that make it look a little...well...its funny whether true or not.

[Crimson Elephant]

I’m not endorsing this, but it is funny to watch RE: Old School CNN

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApZDJo5wsH4

[Crimson Elephant]

I can’t find it but there was one scene on a video where the “outside” scene from Saudi Arabia panned to reveal a utility shelf as if they were actually in some basement somewhere. It has been awhile since I watched it, maybe there is an explanation and I missed it.

[IMR 4350]

It was the R King beating in 1991 that caused not just CNN but all news organizations to go off the deep end and become completely partisan hacks for the dems.

All broadcast news and most printed news began using dem talking points to create the myth of “Republican Racism” as the reason police weren't being held accountable for abuse and corruption, when if fact it's the dem controlled city govts that are responsible.

[Iron Munro]

I’ve never seen the final episodes, due to overseas deployment through that year.

They did air them but no one was actually able to view them as they went by too fast in the other direction.

[xzins]

maybe a backward glance on the shuttle doing 18x the speed of light would have been able to catch a glimpse of them.

[mrsmith]

“What the heck happened to HLN?...”

Like CNN they went for the prime advertising money.
That money is paid for for single mothers and young people: dumb sluts to be concise. Those viewers pay the most money most easily for the least product value - so advertisers pay the most for them.

These are Democrat voters too.

[zeestephen]

Re: “CNN is an important resource...CNN actually matters.”

The problem for CNN?

First, not enough breaking news that galvanizes the average viewer.

Wars, mass murders, terrorist attacks, celebrity murder trials, deadly storms...

In 1980, real time TV coverage of these things was stunningly new.

Today, we’re used to them, they all pretty much look like the last catastrophe we watched, and, most important, there’s only so much to say about them, there’s only so much actual “news” to report.

Second, when there is no breaking news, CNN is just one more Hard Left media program.

I can get the Democratic Party talking points from a dozen different sources.

Why do I need CNN?

[MinuteGal]

Many sea and land lubbers here are familiar with the FR fund-raising cruises I organized as "Bahama Mama".

Folks, on those cruises and more than a dozen others I've been on, one was forced to watch International CNN as the only source of news in one's cabin. ICNN pollutes the seven seas like decaying fish.

I kid you not....every ICNN news-reader has a foreign accent (mostly British, real Labour-type socialists), is anti-capitalism and anti-American. Every news tid-bit is as slanted as humanly possible.

I never watch the domestic CNN shows, I don't patronize its major sponsors, and I gripe nicely but firmly when CNN is the only source of news in doctors' waiting rooms, etc.

CNN is socially amoral, politically immoral, and its radical cast of talk characters are the antithesis of all the founding principles of this nation and responsible journalism.

I avoid this network like the black death. Scrue 'em!

Leni

[Tamzee]

perfect graphic :-)

[Bob Ireland]

Hmmmmm.... Well, the first observation is that the author of the article is a bit too kind to Mr. Turner; isn't Ted Turner the guy that needs a boxcar of lithium every week just to appear sane?

I love the graphic '18 times the speed of light'! Just think, if CNN could travel 18 times the speed of light they would have no competition because they would be 18 times larger than the whole universe!!! ;-)

Back in the Clintooon years I used to urge FReepers not to watch these networks and then with loss of viewership they would eventually go out of business or change for the better.

I was wrong, sadly!

These companies like Disney, GE, Viacom etc. are willing to keep these propaganda organs operating at a loss just in hopes that they can persuade a few shallow minds to believe in fantasies.

The only time I have watched CNN for over 10 years is when I go to Firehouse Subs some Saturday afternoons. If football is on I can easily talk them into changing the channel! :-D I can eat in peace because I feel comfortable with mindless automatons spouting drivel that has no particular meaning. It is sort of like listening to a speech by Nikita Khrushchev! :-D

[RetiredArmy]

Sadly, America may be in the same boat as CNN in a year if the scum in the White House is not run off. He will destroy the Republic and his communist pals will take over completely. His executive orders will replace Congress, who will basically sit on their butts in the newly named Congressional Politburo and rubber stamp all the newly appointed dictator for life's orders. America as we all knew it is nearly gone now. The remained goes in November if Obama wins. People are basically so non caring about it all, as long as they have their porn, beer, drugs, free stuff, TV, ball games and such, that they will be glad to be servants.

[ozzymandus]

CNN has become unwatchable. It’s almost as insultingly far left as MSNBC, which at least has occasional unintentional comedy value. Soledad O’Brien makes me want to reach into the TV and slap her smugly ignorant lying face.