Seriously thinking of boycotting CNN

[jsamuel]

I haven't watched Fox News since a few months after 9/11 and CNN is getting to the point Fox News was at when I stopped watching. This is getting pretty serious...

[Lorien]

1. Do it-then write to CNN's sponsors and tell them why

you won't regret it.

[rumpel]

8. Enzyte.

[Lorien]

29. Lol!

[PDJane]

2. Yes.

It is. I refuse to turn the blasted thing on anymore. I will be watching the election results after ten on CBC. That's it. That's all. I haven't turned the TV on for more than a year.

[Warpy]

3. What took you so long?

Since Turner left it's gone to shite, and now stands for Certainly Not News. They're trying to woo viewers away from Pox, and have become worthless in the process. They're also doomed to failure, since Pox has lost 40% of their viewers in the past year as people start to wake up to the fact that they're lying and the gang in Washington is utterly inept.

[drfresh]

12. Fox lost 40% ? Really?

I wonder if that resulted in people switching to other channels, or just shutting their TVs off in disgust.

[yorkiemommie1]

4. I emailed them this morning

Their hiring of Glen Beck ( who muses on air about the feasibility of murdering Michael Moore ) is the very. last. straw.


edited for grammar.

[RandiFan1290]

5. Turn that garbage off

and read the internets!!!

:)

[0007]

31. Absolutely!

[tlsmith1963]

6. I Have Pretty Much Stopped

And I used to watch CNN all the time. I sent them an e-mail when they announced the Glenn Beck deal. I told them that if they wanted to be like Fox News, they would no longer have me as a viewer. If enough of us leave, it will hurt them. All they are doing is helping to divide the Fox audience into smaller pieces, and if we leave along with that, their ratings are going to take a dive. I guess they will just have to learn this the hard way. Stupid networks, they never learn.

Tammy

[davidwparker]

13. I used to watch CNN all the time too. Then, I found C-SPAN after

I discovered Dean was on there a lot during the primaries. The reason I stopped watching CNN and switched to C-SPAN was I noticed CNN didn't cover Dean accurately. The bias was easy to see in Fox, but I thought CNN was balanced. I realized they were not.

I get amused when people her post Wolf said this or that. Just stop watching.

[tlsmith1963]

18. The Spygate Hearing on C-SPAN Was Good

The one a few days ago with Conyers. So maybe I will watch that channel instead of CNN. They just show what is happening, without all the idiot reporters making their comments.

Tammy

[davidwparker]

22. Also, if you can, watch Washington Journal in the morning. There is

a live call-in show. It's funny listening to those calling in on the "Support * line".

[renate]

14. that's what I told them, too

One FOX channel is one too many. I don't use CNN for online news any more, either--which is a hard habit to break, after all these years. Now I use msnbc.com and cbs.com--MSNBC because at least they have the sense to hire Keith, and CBS because of Walter Cronkite.

Dropping CNN and HNN has been quite a timesaver. HNN only had about two minutes of news per half hour anyway.

[liveoaktx]

17. The other thing about CBSNEWS online is that they show a lot

of the news conferences- Live- and without commercial interruption or breaking away for a missing white woman.

[cyberpj]

26. The thing is. Notice that we're running out of any real mainstream help.

I can't believe if all newspeople stood together and protested in some way that they would lose in the public eye. TRUTH is ALWAYS the answer.

[renate]

37. speaking of that missing white woman

I feel just awful for Natalee Holloway's parents, obviously. It's a terrible, horrible tragedy. It's certainly not Natalee's fault that the "news" shows get all hot and bothered over missing white girls.

But when I left the room after KO tonight, and came back in to hear Rita Cosby talking to Natalee's father on the phone (and it's been how many months since she disappeared? It was an end-of-school trip, right, so, like June?), I just had to laugh. I mean, it's TRUE--Rita Cosby's show really IS the Natalee Holloway lack-of-any-new-information show.

(And for that I blame Rita... I don't blame the girl's parents for doing everything they possibly can to publicize this case.)

[Berry Cool]

38. When Rita's not covering Natalee Holloway, she's covering the guy

who disappeared from the cruise ship on his honeymoon.

That is no exaggeration. I'm serious. She goes to Miami and does all her shows from there.

These are her two topics. She never deviates from them unless some sort of breaking news on something else rudely drags her away, like the coal mine disaster. Then she went on location to milk it for every drop of heartbreak possible. Of course, she was among the many who erroneously reported the miners had survived. Now that's done with and she's back to Natalee Holloway and George Smith.

[depakid]

7. And more than what Lorien suggested

actively encourage your friends, colleagues and aquaintences to stop watching too. Program the channel off the TV.

I've managed to convince about a dozen people in the last year or two- and they're glad they're not being misinformed and lied to anymore.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

9. Do it

Save for Lou Dobbs once in a while, I avoid that fucking channel like it's Barbara Bush's mouth.

(I just scared myself)

You won't be missing a thing except righteous outrage, and none of us needs more of that these days.

[StClone]

10. I held out until Watts and Beck were hired

Now I am totally off CNN and Tweety too...Keith yes and gotta have my Daily Show. I do sample National Networks (NBC,CBS,ABC) to see how they are portraying things. FSTV, LINK and a little Public TV.

[Bluebear]

11. That was also my final straw, StC. nt

[davidwparker]

16. FSTV and Link!

[Cleita]

15. I threw them into my mental dumpster more than a year ago.

What took you so long?

[Wetzelbill]

19. the only news I watch is KO on MSNBC and Jim Lehrer on PBS

other than that I'll check out The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. On weekends I do watch the Sunday morning shows though. Most news is virtually worthless nowadays.

[Armstead]

20. Write CNN and tell them why

I think we all ought to either call them on their shit, or -- if you give up watching altogether -- tell them why.

Personally, I watch them a lot less, but I still watch to see what the media/political gestalt is. And when they piss me off I write and tell them.

WE ARE AT LEAST HALF THE COUNTRY. IT'S TIME FOR THEM TO START RECOGNIZING THAT. AND IT'S TIME FOR US TO STOP ACTING LIKE A PERSECUTED MINORITY.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

21. I think I finally wrote them off during the convention coverages in '04.

[Sparkly]

23. They are Foxified

MSNBC is just as bad, with the exception of Keith Olberman.

[Individualist]

24. I stopped watching Conservative News Network

prior to the Iraq invasion when they were cheerleading for the invasion and ignoring many anti-war protests that were taking place.

[mike_c]

25. unplug the freaking cable, or at least turn off the TV service...

...if you've got cable broadband internet. Your life will be much richer, and your blood pressure will thank you.

[stlsaxman]

39. I did exactly that 2 years ago, was "pirating" tv, but ended up only

watching c-span. Turns out I have no DSL available in my area (?) so I plugged the "rabbit-ears" back into my tv (i get PBS ok) and got a cable modem, and can stream all the c-span I want!!!

The only other tv I watch is "The Simpsons" and lately "My Name Is Earl" (what a great show!)

Kill Your Television.

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

27. Do You Get Other Channels?

If so, then TURN THEIR CRAP OFF!!!

[Catrina]

34. I cancelled cable three weeks ago

If I hadn't, I would be cancellin it now. We need a huge organized demonstration of disgust by having millions of people all cancel at the same time. Just one month of that, would make them pay attention. It's in our hands. Complaining constantly does nothing. Taking away their funding will work wonders! The country is in trouble. If people can't do without cable for a few months until we take back the media, then there's no point in complaining anymore, imo.

It was hard to make the decision, but it finally dawned on me that all I did was get angry, and it makes no sense to pay to be angry all the time. I don't miss it now. I will get it back some time in the future if I hear that we are getting news again, not rightwing propaganda.

[degreesofgray]

28. I mostly stopped watching CNN

when I went five years without cable, but then started watching during the 2004 election season. I was utterly appalled at their ridiculous, godawful, vacuous, inexcusably bad coverage, and have sworn them off.

[Maru Kitteh]

30. I'm already with you dear.

I sent them letters two days in a row and I stil feel exactly the same. CNN can kiss it.

[Initech]

32. I just stopped watching cable news altogether.

[devilgrrl]

33. I haven't watched CNN since 9/11...

I've boycotted them for years.

[leesa]

35. I haven't watched in years...it's not like you would be missing anything.

[OneBlueSky]

36. ditto . . . you can get more real news by monitoring the . . .

Breaking News and General Discussion boards on DU for a day than you can by watching CNN for a month . . .

[alcibiades_mystery]

40. You're only just now figuring this out?

slow learner, huh?

[jsamuel]

42. no, they have been biased right wing the whole time, but now they have

gone over to propaganda

That is why I stopped Fox, not bias, but propaganda.

[baby_mouse]

41. ... you mean... you...WATCH TELEVISION??

??

:-0

Why? What do you get out of it?

???

:scared:

[Lorien]

43. I've been told that BBC world is a good alternative

I only get three or four fuzzy channels with my rabbit ears, so I wouldn't know-but that's what a few on this board have told me.