I have a friend who was overseas recently and was appalled at the anti-USA slant of CNN in other countries. If you want to know where other countries get their anti-American bias, CNN stands as a prime example of what is hurting us. The reason CNN is NOT watched here and yet makes a profit world-wide is because they foster the hatred and disrespect for this country that many of them already crave. CNN feeds the animosity toward this country cravenly. The fact that this organization is given any access to our politicians and our events is sad - they should be treated like Al Jazzera - since their mission is pretty much the same.
I lived in Germany from 1993 to 2009, and CNN International was one of the only two news channels I could get (Sky News with strictly UK news was the other). Up until the Bush era....CNN International was mostly neutral and just pure news. Then, it went to a radical change. Within a year or two...it was full-turbo anti-US. The journalist (I hate to even use that word) would go through a four-minute interview with someone spouting off a very negative view of the US, and then he’d just look at the screen with ‘puppy eyes’....giving you the impression that you just had to believe the interview. It was some kind of comical mental news attempt.
Who watches CNN International? To be truthful....most regular people never watch it....it’s strictly the university-educated and elite. They truly believe everything that CNN International puts on. It’s like a propaganda machine.