Is it time to stop watching CNN all together?

[jeanmarc]

I tivo Crossfire everyday it's on. That's about all I can stand. But should we be watching CNN at all? They are sinking further and further into the slime. Watching CNN rewards them. I'm sure they still have a very large audience of people like us watching them, which their advertisers appreciate and pay for.

But why should we continue to support them? I like Crossfire, but I'll get by without it. Is it time to stop watching CNN? I think it is.

[GiovanniC]

1. I Like Carville and Begala

I hate Crossfire. I hate it but I always watch it.

By the way, for all you inventors out there: TV was a good invention. Color TV made it even better. Surround sound was a good improvement. High Definition is great too. The next invention should be somehow making it possible for me to reach into my television and beat the everlasting piss out of Bob Novak.

Can anybody make that happen, please? I'll pay real money.

Until then, I think it's no CNN for me. This afternoon really sealed the deal.

[chillwindblowing]

2. CNN is not the news anymore

I cannot see paying for cnn, for it isn't news anymore.
:puke:

[MUSTANG_2004]

35. Entire night lineup without news

CNN became a major network because of its news reporting. Since it moved to interviews and debates it hasn't been worth watching.

[Nite Owl]

3. Just raises my blood pressure

to try and watch so unless a specific guest is on like Dean or Wes Clark I no longer bother. Lou Dobbs can be good but I'm really out of the CNN habit so I have to remember to watch it.

[Killarney]

4. I will only watch MSNBC.

and even then, only certain shows.

[City Lights]

5. Me too. It's MSNBC or nothing for me.

I refuse to watch CNN.

[malachibk]

21. Agree

I stopped CNN cold turkey a week or so ago. Best thing I ever did.

THEY ARE TOTAL ASSHOLES

[jeanmarc]

7. I think I'm switching to them....

It will send a nice powerful message to the complete assholes running CNN right now. It already has started as MSNBC's ratings are increasing at CNN's expense. I would like to continue the bleeding. Maybe I can boycott CNN ad products. I'm sure some right wingers have a nice helpful list.

[nostamj]

6. YES. next question? n/t

[leesa]

8. Yes. Stop watching ALL of them.

[jackstraw45]

9. YES! It HAS been for about a YEAR....

The Democratic National Convention was the LAST STRAW.

[liberalnurse]

10. CNN has turned the corner to Entertainment News....

Today, it is a disgrace to the title/term of journalism..


CNN has turned YELLOW.....for YELLOW JOURNALISM.

Their call letters are now a footnote in "Webster's Dictionary" when yellow journalism is referenced..

[Leilani]

11. Their ratings are going down

& MSNBC is gaining...the article was posted here several days ago.

Were you part of our big contact CNN, about 2 weeks ago...we deluged them will calls, emails, etc.

They want to be FOX Light...fine, but they will not get FOX viewers.

My exception: Newsnight with Aaron Brown...he is terrific.

[GimmeDANEger]

12. My advice...

I would keep watching to see Carville and Begula, that is, unless you are one of the Nielsen households. I don't think your viewership is accounted for (in a negative or positive light) unless you are one of the select households who are surveyed.

[artr2]

41. You don't think that the cable company can tell which

channel you are watching? If you think that they can't , you are being naive

[LWolf]

13. It was time for me 3 1/2 years ago.

I'm happier without them, and Fox, and CBS, NBC, ABC, etc.; if enough people quit watching to bring their ratings down, we might see some changes.

[redstateblues]

15. I Don't Watch "The Least Trusted Name In News" Anymore

Capitol Gang was the last to go- It started sucking too- Can't take Novak. They are Faux Wannabes.

[Carolina]

27. exactly, LW

turn them all off. I did. The only way I know what's going on at CNN is through DU but I never tune in. Selection 2000 did it for me and I have never looked back. I wrote them ages ago and as part of the recent DU effort (amended a previous letter), but it does no good. Hit 'em where it hurts ... in the pocketbook. Don't look.

TURN them all off. You'll have greater equanimity and get more done.

[K8-EEE]

14. I Already Stopped, Because They Suck. Don't Miss It eom

xx

[freeminder]

16. CNN is what got me here

because their coverage of the 2000 election had me glued to the screen, and they had it 24/7. Never lost my interest in what was going on in the US since.

Here in Europe they're the only US channel that is widespread.

I have turned away in disgust since they started beating their war drums, and instead started coming here for US news.

Ocasionally, they'll have the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, if I zap past it I of course watch it. But then I get freaked out by some Saudi commercial and turn away again...

[Memekiller]

17. CNN's mistake is equating boring...

...with integrity. If CNN valued truth and didn't just see its job as regurgitating both side's press releases and calling it a day, I'd watch them over the glitziest "Countdown" show. I wouldn't have to go to the "Daily Show" to cut through the BS. The Dailly Show is still entertainment - the second someone in one of Stewart's interviews starts to say something, he cuts them off with some joke - but they still will call a lie a lie.

What do we have with CNN? All the irresponsibility of FOX, with all the entertainment value of Newshour. So watch Newshour and NPR. (Unfortunately, the conservatives are dismantling PBS as well).

What no one will dare try is a a hold-no-punches show that's not conservative. They won't do it. You see what they did to Moore when 9/11 came out. You see what they're doing now to Hardball. You see how every cable outlet that might sell to Gore suddenly pulls out. There's a seething market out there for someone to not push the White House script, and everyone's terrified to fill it because they know there will be payback from the right, in the form of intimidation and unfavorable legislation. It's not market driven, it's power driven.

If Bush wins a second term, their control of government will be so tight that our media will be like any third world dictatorship's.

[ellie]

18. Yes, after e-mailing

them every week for weeks, then actually handwriting a letter demanding they stop whoring for Bush, I stopped watching. I didn't use the word "whoring" of course, I was polite, but forceful. Stop watching, your blood pressure will thank you.

[jayfish]

19. The Capitol Gang And Dobbs Is All I Can Stomach -NT-

Jay

[greekspeak]

20. Long past time, my freind

Their increasingly ridiculous veer to the right has rendered them unable to pass on the truth without spinning it into a spider web of Puke propeganda.

[devinsgram]

22. Here we go again,

How many times have we all said to turn off CNN, you will feel so much better. And yet there are still some that torture themselves everyday. I'm sorry but you will find no pity here. Please do yourself a big favor and TURN OFF CNN.

Hey, that woud be a great website.

[depakid]

24. that would be a great website

except that some poor soul would have to torture themselves in order to keep it updated!

I know I couldn't do it- I quit CNN in 2000 and feel much better for it. I bet it's added years to my life.

[Carolina]

29. and protest sign

:hi:

[Trajan]

23. I have been sending the slimes LOTS of emails lately ....

But mostly based on what others have said here: I cant stand watching their bald faced sycophancy ....

MY question is: WHY havent we protested at CNN itself ? ..

Every morning, on the set of that gawdawful 'American Morning', the windows behind the 'actors' seem to be accessible ... are they ? ...

Can we NOT storm the CNN palaces with signs and show them what a Peasants Pitchfork Parade really looks like ? ...

(Note to Agent Mike: I didn't mean REAL pitchforks .... metaphor, my friend ....)

[LiviaOlivia]

32. sorry reply meant for post 28

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[goclark]

37. Someone said that it is sealed off so tight

that a picket sign would not be seen for miles.

I haven't been there so I don't know.

[Jazzgirl]

25. I've noticed CNN sinking further and further down into slime too!

I am just about ready to stop looking but its hard because I want to know what propoganda they're putting out to people. I curse them every time I stop and listen to them. I feel like an idiot everytime I yell at them on the TV. I'm just glad its only me and the dog. :eyes:

[jeanmarc]

38. What Kagan said is unforgivable.

There's been zero hard evidence that Kerry didn't deserve his awards, the official records show that he did, the entire boat thinks that he did, yet some asshole writes a book, has proven to be a liar on numerous events, and this bitch thinks that she can cast doubt with her opinion. Well fuck her, and fuck CNN. What she said is no different from what those male and female airheads say on Faux and Friends.

[Sid Demo]

26. What about Lou Dobbs?

If we could just get Lou Dobbs to move to MSNBC, or better yet, to CNBC to get rid of Kudlow and Kramer I would quit CNN completely. It would be nice to get ahold of people who they monitor for the Nielson rating and get them to quit watching CNN.

[Carolina]

30. Lou Dobbs supported Bush

big time in 2000! Who cares whether he stays or goes :shrug:

[newyawker99]

39. Hi Sid Demo!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[mandyky]

28. I think AOL Time Warner needs to be investigated

Talk about owning too many media outlets - they own AOL, all the CNNs, Time, HBOs, Turner Broadcasting channels like TNT, etc, and more.

Do they also own A&E and History Channel? There also is a Time Warner cable company. Any newspapers?

Kerry, if elected better darned well reregulate the media, and limit what can be owned by whom.

[LiviaOlivia]

33. See A & E ownership below(item 4)

from link: http://www.signalalpha.com/who_owns_what.htm



1 Discovery Communications is owned by Liberty Media Corporation (50%), Cox Communications (cable company), Advance/Newhouse Communications and the C.E.O., John Hendricks.

2 A.B.C, American Broadcasting Company, is owned by the Walt Disney Company.

3 NBC Universal is 80% owned by the General Electric Company. G.E.'s purchase of Vivendi Universal's entertainment properties was announced October 8, 2003. The deal closed in May 2004. The deal includes the Universal Pictures movie and television studio and stakes in five theme parks but Vivendi will keep Universal Music.

4 A&E Television Networks (37.5% owned by A.B.C.2, 25% owned by NBC Universal3, and 37.5% owned by Hearst Corporation).

5 Viacom is controlled by and is 68% owned by the privately held National Amusements, Incorporated. Sumner Redstone is the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of both Viacom and National Amusements and Mr. Redstone controls National Amusements. National Amusements acquired control of Viacom in June 1987 and operates about 1,400 movie screens (Showcase Cinemas and Multiplex Cinemas) in the U.S., U.K.,. Chile, and Argentina. Viacom is one of the world's largest media and entertainment companies owning Blockbuster Video, Paramount Pictures, Paramount theme parks, many broadcast television and radio stations (Infinity Broadcasting) , outdoor billboards, cable channels, two broadcast networks, and Simon & Schuster books.

6 Liberty Media Corporation owns 100% of Starz/Encore Group pay movie channels, 50% of Discovery Communications, 50% of Court TV (the other 50% is owned by Time Warner), 67% of MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, and 98% of QVC. Liberty also has stakes in major entertainment companies: Time Warner, 4%; Viacom, less than 1%. Source: April 2004 Annual Report pages 11-15. Chairman of the Board, John C. Malone, owns 29% of the voting shares.

[jeanmarc]

34. That's terrible!

I wonder what it's going to take to get this new version of Monopoly out of America. I feel like we've returned to the 1890's, but instead of oil and railroads, it's media tycoons controlling things and it has nothing to do with pure capitalism. I fear that if they squelch the message, then we are doomed. Who can 'muckrake' in this environment? We'll need to clone Michael Moore.

[tom_paine]

31. Long past time. n/t

[democrat in Tallahassee]

36. I just wrote and told them to piss off. won't watch again

[mandyky]

40. Day #1 of my switch from CNN to MSNBC

Where the heck is Al Gore with his channel? I hate supporting ANY of these media conglomerates.

[NicRic]

42. Change channels fast/often !

I have never in my life had to change channels so fast and often. Iam hoping,praying,begging ,that bush does not get elected. I just cant stand listening to him spew his lies and deceit ,his swaggering walk,like some tough guy. Us that know better are well aware he is a small minded person who lacks the ability to think beyond what best for himself, and he is not even efficiant at that. I could go on and on ,however I think you get the jist of it. What is amazing most of all ,is that any thinking person can defend this idiot in office. How they can take a miserable failure, and try and convince others he has done a terrific job. Lets face it the only way to make others believe he is doing a good job ,is by lying about the facts ,bending twisting the truth to fit their jiv !

[wurzel]

43. Turn off FOX and CNN. Media boycott. The media is the enemy.