Why is CNN trying to end the Biden administration?

[Takket]

Their homepage right now: “the worst time for Democrats. The White House is at its lowest moment as the harsh reality of power puts Biden’s leadership under extreme examination”

Yeah. It is being extremely examined. BY YOU. ever since Biden decided to end the Afghan war they have been ripping him to SHREDS.

also on the homepage: “major jobs disappointment. America added only 235000 jobs in august.” Article just says they expected over 700k. But no insight into WHY. it’s because delta is screaming across the country. And who’s fault is that? Not Biden’s. But they won’t tell you that, will they???

[Marius25]

1. Because CNN made tons off money off Trump's scandals

and the Afghanistan war.

No more war, and far less scandals = less revenue for CNN. CNN is garbage.

[TheBlackAdder]

53. Yep. Like in any play, there had to be rises and ebbs in tension.

.

You gotta reel that fish in, let the line loose to think they are getting away only to reel in again.

It's a dance to causes spikes and falls in endorphins to keep the viewer addicted.

FOX News uses a more aggressive technique with those Red ALERT warnings every 15 mins or so.

.

[spanone]

2. my assessment of cnn....

FUCK'EM

[Johnny2X2X]

3. Yeah, it's just ridiculous

And they're trying to paint it like Dems will get blamed for Texas. Just ridiculous.

[NurseJackie]

4. It's not just CNN. Look around. Others are also creating distrust and resentment and division...

It's not just CNN. Look around. Others are also creating distrust and resentment and division from within. Others lit the match and fanned the flames.

[StarfishSaver]

8. My favorite so far today: "Poll shows Americans support withdrawal from Afghanistan ...

"But oppose the way Biden Administration withdrew."

Yeah, no shish. After being told for a month 24-7 that the withdrawal was a "disaster," no wonder. And, funny thing, all these armchair experts haven't a clue how a withdrawal is supposed to occur or how a "successful" withdrawal would have been carried out.

Sick of polls, which have dummied down news, public affairs and politics into a reality show popularity contest decide by clueless, uniformed know-it-alls.

[brer cat]

11. +1 nt

[Politicub]

26. This is happening on DU today, too. There are numerous threads about how ineffectual the

democrats are, and how some should be punished. There is a list I saw earlier that was a fever dream of punishments, that stopped short of going full-on Scarlett Letter.

Meanwhile, abortion has been made de facto illegal in Texas. Pres. Biden could not have been more forceful in his statement about putting using the full force of the executive branch in re: to protecting women. He cares deeply about this issue, and I support him fully.

I understand why people are upset with Manchin and Sinema. I am, too. I can't stand them, really, but I do understand that, without them, there would not be the slimmest of a dem majority in the senate. This majority matters (I know you know this, but I felt like I needed to say it before someone replies saying, "But but Manchin tho...." Saves me a step for a reply to them.).

The Sarandoning is happening right now, and I'm probably not seeing the full extent on DU because I have my Thread Trash list setup to ignore the endless posts that drone on and on about the same thing.

[NurseJackie]

38. That's exactly right. Even outside of DU our supposed "allies" are sabotaging the party...

... every time there's a live microphone shoved in their faces. Whether it's on the evening news, or a twitter feed, there's a certain element that is smearing and trashing our party and our party leadership. The venomous hatred and ugliness that's on display right now is for vanity purposes only. It serves no useful purpose. The revenge-motivated rhetoric that's aimed at two Democrats is intended to kneecap them... and they will, very likely be replaced with Republicans when their terms are complete. Do the math, people. The loss of two Senate Democrats means that we will be stuck with a FOUR VOTE deficit. Mitch McConnell would be in charge (yet again).

[Botany]

33. MSNBC was working on trying to bring down Joe Biden this AM too.

Willie Geist on Morning Joe this AM ... before I turned it off. "President Biden's collapsing ratings after
our chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan."

The word has gotten out from the PTB it is time to bring down Biden. This has the smell of a Hillary and
her emails or John Kerry and the swift boats to it.

[NurseJackie]

40. Sorry, I don't know what that means.

Pulmonary tuberculosis?

[Botany]

46. PTB the powers that be

The Biden administration despite being hamstrung by the actions of the prior administration
pulled off the most successful air lift/evacuation in history, worked with the Taliban so they
walked in and protected the Americans in Afghanistan in getting to the airport in Kabul, and he
got us out of that 20 year no win war. Those are very good things unless you listen to cable
news.

I might be wrong but I see Joe and Kamala helping to build a new and more diverse democratic
party that will be very hard to beat in the future and so the PTB want to bring "it" down now.

[NurseJackie]

49. Ah! Yes... of course. "Powers that Be". (INHICTB)

I've never heard it called that before.

[Rebl2]

48. You mean

like msnbc. Pretty much have quit watching it too

[NurseJackie]

51. Seem like BBC and PBS Newshour are all that remains for those who get news from TV.

Personally, I prefer to read.

[Lars39]

5. They've said in the past they want to be like Fox News

They’re getting there.

[pandr32]

45. It seems there are trying to attract Republican viewers

I suppose they see Fox as competition.

[Lars39]

55. Probably, but very short-sighted of them.

[Claire Oh Nette]

57. Ratings....

Peeling off the Fox viewers who just can't go down the OAN rabbithole.

CNN, CNN headline news, MSNBC, CNBC, Fox, FOx headline news, OAN, News Maxx, and I'm sure I'm missing others--24 hour news channels need to fill space. Reporting good news, agreements, and collaboration and cooperation draws no eyeballs. No conflict? No story. Ever since the News Divisions were tasked with showing a profit.

YMMV

[JohnSJ]

6. Typical of CNN. No context or actual perspective. For the past couple weeks they have been

working overtime with their anti-Biden hyperbole, conveniently leaving out the 100 million who refuse a vaccine, and fight masking

[Mysterian]

7. What's wrong with the news?

https://fair.org/about-fair/whats-wrong-with-the-news/

[patricia92243]

9. When you hit someone in the pocket book they listen. Biden has

hit some big, big, big money by ending the war.

I hope the President does not take a beating for doing the right thing.. Money vs. right thing to do...money always wins.

[Owl]

10. I just had the same take-away from CNN.

It’s disheartening.

[winetourdriver01]

12. Why?

Because cable news had two major cash cows. One, Trump. Two, the endless Afghan war. Biden killed them both.

[PatSeg]

28. And CNN earned its reputation with its war reporting

back during the first Iraq war. Now they just don't know what kind of news network they want to be, rather bipolar it seems.

[lagomorph777]

13. Because peace and prosperity are bad for ratings.

[Lovie777]

14. Corporate media . . ..

anywho for those who watch the polls - Texas, Florida and other red states.

Even if the corporate does not cover what red states are doing to their people, which is horrible and un-humane coupled with Texas' abortion and vigilance against women, and how those 5 judges on US SC allowed this, even their numbers are in the negative.

Also, President Biden will be ok, while some corporate media is trying to tear him down, I don't see him on tv threatening them and lying about his poll numbers, instead I see him caring for all Americans and doing everything he can to help them.

That is the conversation.

[Omen78]

15. The War Room

Its detrimental that this stop with all MSM. I listen to a little bit of everything when it comes to politics and in my opinion, which I realize doesn't matter, the 2022 election season is going to be a disaster. The fascists are painting the narrative that 2021 is a major win for Republicons and the polling and MSM are playing right into their dirty hands. Something has to change. Hell, use Trump's strategy of "Fake News!"

[dalton99a]

16. Jeff Zucker will do whatever makes him more money. He made Trump a TV celebrity and president

[Calista241]

21. Trump was a big media personality before Zucker and The Apprentice.

Both of them capitalized on that to make huge sums of money. Trump took all of that and went on to become President.

[TheRealNorth]

17. They are doing to Biden....

What they did to Hillary.

[dawg]

18. The people in the media learned precisely nothing from what they did to Hillary.

They are falling all over themselves trying to establish their journalistic "bona fides" by proving they can be "just as tough" on Biden as they were on Trump. Nevermind the fact that this results in profound double-standards and false equivalencies.

[RockRaven]

30. On the contrary, they learned that what they did to Hillary was ultimately good for their revenue.

The media doesn't give a shit about American citizens' rights or their lives or their safety, as long as they watch so those views/ratings can be turned into cash.

[dawg]

44. You know, I actually don't think the corporate overlords are the main problem.

I mean, they are a problem. But I think it's the individual "journalists" who are pushing most of these bad takes in their misguided attempts to prove how very, very serious and unbiased they are.

[wnylib]

62. I think the problem is with the

corporate overlords because I 'm seeing and hearing it elsewhere, too. Stephen Colbert totally trashed Biden as soon as the airlift started, portraying the president as too old to be competent. There was no humor in that dialogue at all. It was a straight on attack. Colbert does not have to establish any bonafides in the TV comedy business. But he does have to keep his corporate bosses happy.

NPR was pushing the anti Biden bias so hard this morning, that I changed the station. I am done with them. They have been doing this since day one of the withdrawal, but this morning, every single program was in full on Biden attack mode. The theme that ran through the programs was 1) Most Americans approve of ending the war in Afghanistan, and 2) The withdrawal was total chaos and Biden is incompetent. One commenter claimed that Biden's speech at the end of the evacuation was "defensive" and said that it "lacked humility and compassion" because he did not apologize for the mess he made of it. These experienced NPR program hosts don't need to establish their bonafides. But they have corporate sponsors to please.

[David__77]

19. They are pro-"human rights intervention"

That is, pro-regime change wars. Biden has, with his actions, blown a big hole in that whole agenda, and for that I’m glad.

[Shermann]

20. I don't think it quite rises to this level

I'm one of CNN's biggest critics, but I'm not sure their critical coverage of Biden rises to the level of being a hit piece.

CNN claims to be a nonpartisan news source, and as such they should be mostly focused on critical but fair coverage of the current administration (regardless of their party). It is fine to run feel-good positive stories as well, but too many of those will lead to watered-down, biased coverage.

I used to leave CNN on in the background while doing other things, but they have become very repetitive (also the drug commercials are out of hand now). So it is the same content looped again and again. In conclusion, I suspect these two factors combined could lead to the perception that they are running hit pieces.

[flying_wahini]

22. They make up the news so they will have something to blather on about.

[Roc2020]

23. 24hr news craves breaking news

and controversy to make money. Bottom line is money.

[NCDem47]

24. Yet, TFG can be in office with polls in the high 30s, low 40s

And the MSM will have an army of reporters scouring small town diners and coffee shops to better understand the Trump voter.

Infuriating.

[zuul]

25. Stop tuning in and stop visiting their website. That's the only way to get their attention.

They are all about $$$ and good ratings means more $$$.

So as hard as it may be, we have to boycott them when they push this bullshit. It's the only way.

[Carlitos Brigante]

27. Because they're garbage? And they've always been. Starting with how

they "made their bones". Selling us Gulf War I, as if it were an action movie.

[Poiuyt]

29. Stephen Collinson from CNN has a major beef with Biden

He has an anti-Democrat, anti-Biden column just about every day. It's almost like it's personal for him.

[Jon King]

31. CNN had its highest ratings during the insurrection period.

They long for the days of scandal and democracy teetering on the edge.

[ancianita]

32. CNN echoes and amplifies the sound of stuck pigs squealing.

[Hugin]

34. They're setting up the horse race for '22 and beyond.

Some news would be nice... It's not like half of the planet isn't simultaneously burning or flooding. Then, there IS a global pandemic going on.

[virgdem]

35. CNN is garbage...

I haven't watched them in years. My blood pressure has improved. Don't watch, you'll feel much better.

[VEGANGTA]

36. No credibility

I cant view CNN anymore. They have no credibility and always do the "Both Sides" BS. As an outsider, it looks like Biden has done an amazing job as President.

This is shameful reporting by CNN.

We are rooting for you America. Clearly there are many amazing people there.

DU is a prime example.

[Jon King]

37. CNN's Chris Cillizza says Dems will lose around 37 seats in 2022.

He says Biden's polls of strongly disapprove at very, very high and if history is a guide, Dems will lose around 37 seats in the midterms.

Seems pretty gleeful about it too.

[andym]

42. Chris should know that polls a year out mean very little. NT.

[Jon King]

54. And no one knows how the abortion issue will affect swing areas.

Pretty much worthless trying to predict the midterms this far out with so many moving parts.

[Jose Garcia]

61. No one knows how many, but it will likely be enough for the GOP if win the House

[andym]

39. When bad events happen-- and the deaths at the airport during the evacuation

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as well as the fall of Afghanistan before the US left would be considered bad events, then the news media are going to go all in-- doesn't matter who the President is.

It's all about narrative, Joe Biden came in portraying himself as a competent alternative to Trump, and recent events have dented his reputation, though really he should be credited for making tough decisions that will in the long-term benefit the country.

However, these bad events are nothing compared to those that afflicted Jimmy Carter-- the Iran hostage crisis went on until after his administration ended, double digit inflation and a recession didn't completely end until Reagan's third year. In this case the Afghanistan crisis is over (unlike Carter's hostage crisis) and Biden's reputation and approval ratings should improve.

Keep in mind that making tough decisions has a price tag. I'm sure President Biden understood that when he decided to proceed with the Afghanistan pullout.

[packman]

41. All for ratings and $$$

Perhaps they are trying to draw in some Fox viewers now that Fox is on the out with them. Besides , it's not about news anymore, it's about entertainment.

[TheFarseer]

43. CNN prefers an exit strategy of

Putting in 10000 more troops and massive contracts for advertisers like Ratheon, Boeing and Lockheed Martin. How does that get us out of Afghanistan? Come on, learn to think 4th dimensionally!

[DickKessler]

47. In a word? Ratings.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

50. Their viewership needs to go down.

No tuning in to their channel.
No visits to their site.

I dropped cable entirely. Don’t need their slanted bullshit to find out what’s going on in the world.

I read that Fux Nooze gets paid just for BEING in your cable package even if you never tune in once. If that was truly the case, I’m even happier I cancelled.

Not one fucking red cent to these talking head dipshits undermining Biden when his opposition have abandoned democracy itself.

[samnsara]

52. they were my go to station for awhile..but not anymore and we need to let them know it

[WinstonSmith4740]

56. I've noticed this over the years.

"Liberal media" my butt. The only time they get off their damn knees is when a Democrat is in office. The last dem that was treated with any respect at all by the media was Johnson, and that was probably because he scared them shitless. They put up with a liar, who spent every minute he spent with them insulting & demeaning them, and they basically said thank you please do that again. A few of them admitted the Afghanistan surrender was Trump's doing, and it was all his plan. But I didn't hear one of them ask even once why Trump didn't start evacuation plans? Or deal with the visa issues our allies were running into? Or any of the other problems that were dumped in Biden's lap due to the fact TFG wouldn't share intelligence with the Biden team, so they basically started blind.

I'm hoping enough people are actually watching and listening to Biden himself, and not filtering it through the media. He's a decent, honest man who has the best interests of the people in mind. And all the press can do is sharpen their knives.

[MarcA]

58. Sensationalism is what sells tabloid news.

All headlines and little or no substance. CNN even has the Headline News channel. MSM has reporters hollering and gyrating at fires and floods. Edited soundbites. Even staged events like the days of Hearst. All to help the "liberal" media owners to keep on owning the populace.

[redstatebluegirl]

59. Biden is bad for their business.

His administration isn't a daily dumster fire that forces people to go to the media to see what stupid ass thing he did today.

[budkin]

60. STEPHEN COLLINSON ON THE WARPATH

He's been leading the charge... it's insane.