Anybody Watching CNN Anymore...

[Dinger]

just out of curiosity?

[otohara]

1. NOPE

not one second!

[Ducks In A Row]

2. nope. took it off my dialer along with the other cable network news

I just occassionally watch olbermann

[seabeyond]

3. nope

if cnn is reading. i was an obsessive watcher for decades. no watch no more

[Cleita]

4. DH likes to watch Headline News.

We leave the sound off so we can listen to AAR. He likes to read the crawlers. I read the internet.

[ElectroPrincess]

5. Once in a while ... hoping that they will regain sanity ...

but I never fail to be even more disappointed at their shameless cheer leading of every damn thing corporate or relating to Bush Co.

[jrthin]

6. Nope.

I'm done with them.

[pk_du]

7. Nope - gave it up last month

No intention of going back

[dhinojosa]

8. Nope.....I will probably get the NYTimes as my replacement

and I live in Alb. NM.

[Cleita]

16. NYT is very right wing. Read it on line for free.

Get one of the west coast papers instead, The San Francisco Chronicle or the Los Angeles Times. Both have a lot of content and try to show both sides in their editorial content.

[dhinojosa]

17. eh, definitely not right wing. perhaps the op-ed pieces.

but you are right about reading it online. What was I thinking?!?!?

[el_gato]

24. NYT is a propaganda rag, you ever heard of Judith Miller?

They have a phoney liberal facade but in reality they are
an outlet for elitist propaganda. The liberal facade just
makes it all palatable to the wanna-be intelligensia.

[dhinojosa]

35. touche'

You got a point there.

[XNASA]

9. CN what?

Is that like on TV, or something?

:shrug:

[LaPera]

10. Gave them ALL (CNN NBC etc.) up, why should I watch that shit?

Contribute to their ratings which means more money for them. Why would I want to watch that shit...To get frustrated, you ALL know it's all lies and censored news, so why do you keep watching?

Man, what kind of idiot keeps watching when they know it's ALL lies and bullshit?????

[barbaraann]

11. At a Motel 6. They had Fox turned off!

Motel 6 is owned by a French company. I guess they don't understand that CNN is as bad as Fox.

On the channel that was supposed to be Fox they had a freeze-frame of Ron Popiel with his mouth open.

[immoderate]

30. I think Motel 6

is the only chain that has C-SPAN on regular TV. At least that's my experience.

--IMM

[Zero Gravitas]

12. nope

stopped watching them completely. With any luck they will either go out of business or turn into a real news organization.

[Kahuna]

13. Nope! Starve the filthy beast.

I'm sure that because of DU's recent notoriety, they will soon receive the news that they are being boycotted.

[eternalburn]

14. Can't.....

....without wondering what is behind the motive for the showing of each "news" story. You might get lucky with a smaller news source or police scanner message boards.

Cable news = state sanctioned news.

Propaganda news.


*sigh*

[ObaMania]

15. Not since Crossfire was moved.

I am at work when it comes on. I do, however, catch a few minutes of Leslie every nite but that's it!

[Canadian_moderate]

18. Interesting how the divide just gets bigger.

CNN is consider the Commie News Network by the rightwing and you guys think its way to the right.

I'm a fairly liberal (actually socially-liberal and fiscally conservative) Canadian and I happen to think that CNN seems fairly balanced to me. Extreme left and right-wing media sources will just make matters worse.

The further left you guys drift, the less chance you'll ever have a political voice in America. Election reform is very unlikely in your current two-party system.

Sadly, the future for America looks very bleak. To make matters worse, my American wife wants me to consider moving to your country.

[Spazito]

28. I, too, am a moderate Canadian, albeit less moderate than you I

suspect as the term moderate can mean leaning faux Conservative/Alliance, and I find CNN very unbalanced since the sale of CNN to AOL who subsequently was sold to Time-Warner. It no longer reports the news, it breathlessly reports the rumours and tries to make them news. It is a very sad downfall for a network that, in it's original format, was, indeed, a balanced news network.

I have not turned on CNN since their orgasmic coverage of 'shock and awe' coverage with the rare exception, maybe 3 times since. I have now sworn off it completely regardless of the latest 'breaking faux news'.

[Canadian_moderate]

38. Trash news is a sign of the times

It's a reflection of the people and the networks want ratings. Sadly, the competition with other cable news channels, especially Fox News, has brought on these changes.

Unlike like FNC, I don't see CNN having a particular ideology. If anything, it's still seems to lean towards the democrats in most ways. I know there are exceptions, but all in all, it's fairly typical mainstream media.

If the repugs think CNN is communist, it must be fairly moderate. CNN will never be as far left as CBC, but in the American political spectrum it's relatively liberal.

[AP]

19. I have not seen a second of CNN since Letterman showed the clips of

Bobby Batista or whoever that was lying her ass off about the bored kid at the Bush rally.

[immoderate]

34. I think it was Daryn Kagan who

is rumored to be Rush Limbaugh's current girlfriend. :puke:

--IMM

[irancontra]

20. Nope.. No more abc networks AT ALL.. and I feel much better.

[AP]

21. Not true. I watched Tucker Carlson humiliate himself in front of Stewart

on Crossfire.

But that's all I've seen in about a year.

[genieroze]

22. CNN can bite me

[deutsey]

23. I have not watched CNN since 2000, with the exception being 9/11

I watched it that night and maybe a few days afterward, then stopped.

Haven't watched it since except for a few seconds while channel surfing.

[biscotti]

29. Nope

I wrote them e mail for a couple of years up to last year. I told them that more people voted for Al Gore then voted for * and that they were ticking off half of the populace and loosing so many viewers. Never got a reply.

[Randypiper]

25. I just bought satellite radio

and dropping satellite tv because I only listen to music and AAR since the election.

[metis]

26. I hardly watch CCN anymore

I watch KO/MSNBC and CBC...maybe BBC World.

[City Lights]

27. Not me.

I don't even bother emailing them anymore, nor do I participate in their easy-to-manipulate on-line polls. _CNN is no longer part of my world. B-)

[flygal]

31. Used to be faithful - they lost me when Bernard Shaw left.

They turned too tabloidy after 2000 - I don't have the patience to sit through celebrity court trials.

[HootieMcBoob]

32. Nope - haven't watched it since November 2nd

Haven't watched Fox in over a year
Removed MSNBC from my channel line-up as well but will tune to Countdown if I'm home and it's on.

NWI/BBC/Link/PBS - The only news I'll watch

Waiting patiently for INdTV the Gore/Hyatt channel which is supposed to start sometime in 2005.

[Synnical]

33. Nope - not at all

Stopped the evening of November 3rd.

[mulderig]

36. No way, Democracy Now instead

I get my news from Amy Goodman on Democracy Now (www.democracnow.org), Indymedia, Sirius Satellite Radio (BBC World News), Canadian Broadcasting Corp., and scouring the net. I wouldn't listen to the CNN tripe they call news if you paid me.

M.

[Cookie wookie]

37. Why would we watch CNN

when they skew every bit of news to favor the * administration?

Some call it lying, some call it marketing, some call it right-wing propaganda. It's so well done, obviously, that there are still people who think it's a rational news source.

But everything they do is manipulated to support the radical right wing, from their coverage (or lack of it) of the war and the economy, to their coverage of the elections.

I channel clicked over to see what they were up to during the Dem Convention, and there were all the talking heads, blah blah blahing right wing nonsense while the great Dem speakers were barely heard in the dim background. Al Sharpton's speech? Jennings goes, "...whatever it was you were riffing about..."

Any progressive they have on is usually a weak speaker, and shrunken down smaller in the window or otherwise made to look wierd, like when they would show Dean, but close up on his head so he looked like big monster head. They'd show titles that were negative to Kerry next to Kerry news.

Every bit of bad news from the economy onward, they tell you then spin it with but .blah blah blah. Unemployment numbers are up but it's because more people are encouraged to look for work because there were hurricanes.

I do have to listen to the CNN news feed on my Air America Radio station sometimes (unavoidable, argh!) How many times have I heard them play over and over: Clinton saying it was the gay issue that caused Kerry to lose. You are getting sleeeeeepppppppyyyyyy, it was the gay issue it was the gay issue.
If they report any truth at all, how would anyone know? They've totally lost their credibility. Those who still watch and think they are fair and balanced (ha ha), are suffering from "group think."

Take a few weeks-- STEP AWAY from tv news (except Jon Stewart, CSPAN, and Bill Moyers), it twists the mind and clouds rational thinking processes.

[Neverarepublican]

39. No

None of them since November 2.
They only say what the Bushies want us to hear.

[Beacho]

40. Nope

Don't even bother. In fact I watch about four hours of tube a week, period.

[Butterflies]

41. No

I hope their ratings sink farther and farther the more conservative they get.