CNN, does anyone watch it anymore?

[bonkers1919]

Is anyone watching CNN anymore?

I don't watch CNN because the anchors offer their personal opinions into every story. Carol Costello and Ashleigh Banfield are the worst "TV Reporters" for giving their opinions. The smugness, arrogance, the rolling of the eyes, when they personally disagree with a story or a guest is disgusting.

If you have stopped watching CNN, ABC, CBS, or NBC, why?

 

[Birds Away]

CNN isn't news. It's tabloid reporting at its worst.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

I don't watch much of any of them anymore. I may watch the local news to get local news but I don't get much of my news from any of the "big-name" cable or broadcast outlets anymore.

 

[pudly]

Stopped watching network news more than a decade ago. I found that what they consider important isn't the same as what I do. There are many ways to pull together from multiple news sources online and effectively create your own custom news.

 

[JeremiahJohnson]

Watch Fox News once in a while...listen to NPR sometimes, when I can stand it...local news on the radio during the drive to/from work...internet MSNBC some...

CNN? Never.

 

[CathyInBlue]

I generally only flip over to MSNBC or CNN if there's a major news event happening and FNC has started recycling the same information and I've seen the same video clips a dozen times already. Maybe the Communist News Network or the Marxist Socialist Nincompoop Bombast Company will at least have novel video of the event for me to see, while I place the audio on mute.

 

[printcraft]

You can turn on any of those programs and get, almost WORD for WORD, the same report.

 

[CathyInBlue]

Gonna hafta ask for a concrete example of FNC delivering the same report as CNN or MSNBC already have.

That the lesser two might rip off Fox, I do not doubt. That Fox would parrot anything the lesser news wonks had already vomitted up, I doubt quite highly.

 

[Brandon]

Can't watch CNN easily - no cable. Rarely do I even go to the website.

 

[JollyMon]

I switch to CNN quite regularly. Half the time I want to hear a certain news report and switch on Fox they are always complaining about obamacare and not reporting on what I want to hear.

But I will watch Megan Kelly.

 

[Rocketscientist]

You can turn on any of those programs and get, almost WORD for WORD, the same report.

Very true. They are all told what to say by the same entity. I quit watching any TV news a long time ago. I might switch on CNN if there's something big happening just to see the pictures, but I don't put much stock in anything they actually have to say. I listen to news radio alot in the car, but it's starting to become the same thing too. I stick to local newspaper websites for stuff going on close to home. I do look at Drudge quite a bit. All the other news agencies and politicians seem to hate him with a passion. Maybe there's a reason?

 

[rambone]

Its never too late to quit television. Researchers have shown a resurgence of brain cell activity within hours of unplugging.

 

[OneShotFOGE]

CNN isn't news. It's tabloid reporting at its worst.

I've heard the term "infotainment." Anchorman 2 attacks this actually. They talk about giving people the news they want to hear as opposed to the news they need to hear.

 

[eric001]

One too many N's involved there. I much prefer CN... probably get a better picture of the world there than CNN, anyway.

Lego Batman is downright awesome.

 

[BehindBlueI's]

Does it still air outside of airports?

 

[spec4]

I thin CNN used to stand for "Clinton News Network" back when that phony disgrace was polluting DC.

 

[sj kahr k40]

I watched CNN a lot during the Ferguson riots, I watched hoping someone would punch Van Jones in the face on live TV

 

[BiscuitNaBasket]

Does it still air outside of airports?

I was wondering about that... the airport and banks are the only places I see CNN on the tv anymore.

 

[snorko]

I had to watch some a couple days ago. My cousin was on.

Mars here we come!

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/11/17/tech/humans-mars-2035-nasa/index.html

 

[OneShotFOGE]

I was wondering about that... the airport and banks are the only places I see CNN on the tv anymore.

I saw it on at a bar the other day. Basically a sports bar, which I found odd. It was like 5pm and they switched it to ESPN after about an hour though.