NEVER WATCH CNN AGAIN! They are UNBELIEVABLE...Kerry bashing

[jackstraw45]

Unfortunately, I just turned on CNN for the first time in probably 7-8 months hoping for some convention coverage.

Instead, I see them showing a picture of Dukakis in a tank and comparing it to John Kerry wearing MANDATORY safety gear during a NASA tour last week. Unbelievable.

I will NEVER EVER watch CNN again.

I ASK you to JOIN ME in this pledge and to let CNN know TODAY that they have lost your viewership FOREVER.

The Corporate media has gotten SO bad we NEED to sacrifice a channel to send a MESSAGE. THIS IS A NECESSARY ACTION by all of us.

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[gratuitous]

1. They wanted to see some candidate bashing

And since the Democrats aren't giving it to them, they're out there on their own, doing it for themselves.

Next week, they'll bitch and moan about the Democratic Convention, saying that they "didn't really find out anything about Kerry." Well no shit, you were too busy manufacturing your own news to pay any attention to what was going on in front of your overfed faces.

[cthrumatrix]

13. this is the repug "Dukakis Plan" and you have the media "help" all day

[rocktivity]

2. The Kerry camp retalliated

by releasing photos of Bush, including one of him picking his nose.
link

:headbang:
rocknation

[Scorpious_Maximus]

3. SENT

[ClassWarrior]

4. Don't stop watching - CALL THE BASTARDS ON THIS

CALL RIGHT NOW AND TALK TO A LIVE OPERATOR.

[The_Casual_Observer]

5. It demonstrates complete desperation on the part of these jerks

Somebody is trying to make amends for the "mission accomplished!" flight suit fiasco. As they say, "Is this the best you can do?"

[nostamj]

6. LOL if you think that's the worst they've been

it's probably a good thing (for your health) that you weren't watching the day-long smearing of Teresa for the SHOVE IT line yesterday...

among many many other crimes of journalistic bias by Woodruff, "Leslie," Hemmer and the rest of the borg_whores

[Burma Jones]

7. Of Course, there's always Chimpy in the Flight Suit

Pretending to be military......

[Generator]

22. Yeah and that Mission Accomplished banner

that is always good for some yucks. By the way how many more have died since then? Why triple the amount of casualties...nothing important about that gaffe. It's more about the image.

We are living in the age of the emperor without clothes. It's driving me isane. I hope these media whores are charged with aiding and abeting a fraud perpetrated on the American people some day. One that costs lives.

[stopbush]

8. The comparison the *should* be making is Kerry visiting NASA

before he becomes president with * never visiting NASA in Houston the entire time he was governor of Texas. Has * ever visited a NASA site? Just asking.

[apnu]

9. and vote in my poll!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=2076476&mesg_id=2076476

[kentuck]

10. They have learned nothing from the Clinton years....

..and it's the same players, the Scaife people, planting these bullshit stories and getting these morons to promote them for the Repubs. And like obedient children, they do whatever they are told.

[in_cog_ni_to]

11. I wrote them this morning

after I heard Daryn Kagan say the DNC had "bad ratings" last night and Bob Franken said that the Democrats were IDOL WORSHIPING after we saw Clinton's speech. I have already informed them that they will never have me as a viewer. I did the same with MSNBC. :hi:

[Aftershock]

12. Sad, pathetic journalists.

So what. Kerry was wearing mandatory safety gear. What's the big fuckin' deal?

I'm emailing these slimeballs and giving them a piece of my mind.

[buycitgo]

14. send this to CNN

tell them you found it on a terra website

[Wind Dancer]

43. Great pic, lol!

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

15. Attach the note of Bush falling off the segue and remind them to show this

everytime they show Kerry in that suit.

[rocktivity]

16. That's an idea

if you have a goofy pic of Bush, send it along with your e-mail!

:headbang:
rocknation

[jackstraw45]

17. Tell them you are boycotting their sponsors and CONTACTING them as well

We need to hit these right-wing corporate media whores where it really hurts them...their wallets.

[liveoaktx]

18. Just did... and going to block CNN from our channel list on DISH

I'd block MSNBC, too, but I still like ONE show- Olbermann.

[jackstraw45]

19. Did you call/write them? Please do...let them know they've LOST a viewer

We need to take a f-ing stand.

They are simply following RNC marching orders.

[liveoaktx]

23. Sure did. AND called MSNBC as well

It beats all to be a Democrat and have to hear, during the Dem convention, an overabundance of Republican Talking Heads who are bound and determined to be on the attack. I watched cspan last night, will again for the rest of the convention, but i'm also done watching any cable news (with that one show exception, Olbermann is a good show).

[NightOwwl]

31. What's the MSNBC phone number?

I have the one for CNN, but not MSNBC.

[liveoaktx]

38. From FAIR website

http://www.fair.org/media-contact-list.html

[Sparkly]

20. Send them some of the many embarrassing photos of Chimpy!!

There are many on this board alone.

[Catfight]

21. CNN won't report about AWOL Bush. SmearChannel is the real

problem.

[themonster]

24. FOX News

Fox News is still the worst. Completely biased.

[jackstraw45]

28. Well, I haven't turned on Faux news in years...

but this is about CNN turning into an infotainment channel for RNC propaganda morning, noon and night and about TURNING THEM OFF forever and letting them know that democrats aren't going to watch their propaganda anymore.

Daryn Kagen, Judy Woodruff, Candy Crowly and the rest of the team take their marching orders from Karl Rove. They are told what to stress and to promote RNC talking points day after day.

This is an information WAR for the future of our country.

Turn off Rush...Turn off CNN...and of course, turn off FAUX.

[MallRat]

47. Welcome, themonster!

:toast:

The problem is that most Americans think that Fox News is the only problem.

In varying degrees, network news on the other channels (ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC) is also biased against the Democrats. But because the perception remains that places like CNN are "liberal", people take their words as gospel.

A lot depends on who the anchor is. Koppel, Rather, Brokaw, Jennings, and Aaron Brown are, for the most part, still reasonably fair. But the daytime anchors on CNN are unbelievably biased: Bill Hemmer has become increasingly GOP-whorish, Daryn Kagan swallows GOP talking points whole and regurgitates them without thinking (remember the David Letterman/yawning kid backpedal?), and Wolf Blitzer and Judy Woodruff are blatantly pro-Bush.

-MR

[City Lights]

25. I just called and left a nasty message on their viewer comment line.

Buh bye CNN.

[umtalal]

26. Just called them and talked to a Cindy and said I will no longer watch CNN

[dennis4868]

27. Fucking amazing....

we have over 900 soldiers now dead because Bush misled the country and a CIA agent who has been outed by Bush and his thugs, almost the entire world hates us, etc...and the media has time to talk about this? fuck those media whores...fuck off!

[Fovea]

29. And they are all over THK

over 'Shove it!', yet they let
Dick Fu*k get away with his 'Cheney Off!' comment

[dennis4868]

32. and dont forget....

Bush calling a NY Times reporter in 2000 a major league asshole.

[jackstraw45]

33. Have you had enough? Will you stop watching and TELL them you are stopping

???

Or are you waiting for them to piss you off tomorrow and the next day?

Join us!

[killbotfactory]

30. NPR mentioned Kerry's hari twice while reporting on the Dem convetion

I wanted to hear what they had to say... but no.. they'd rather have stories about people making sure Kerry can walk backstage without messing up his hair.

[apnu]

34. My feedback to CNN

I am disgusted with your coverage of the Democratic National Convention. Instead of providing news you have provided right wing "analysis" and removed the Democrats voice with this "analysis" You are also wasting valuable air time with ridiculous pictures of John Kerry that are clearly designed to undermine his Presidential bid.

A news organization should report the news and report what people have said on the topics of the day. Do you honestly believe that a man in a NASA clean suit is news worthy? Apparently so, your "news" is little more than tabloid television, you provide your viewers with 90% opinion and 10% fact.

I will no longer be viewing CNN its affiliates or its domains -- You are NOT the "most trusted name in news" in my household any more.

[umtalal]

35. CNN wants war and misrey. It makes them money n/t

[apnu]

39. Naturally... the scum bags

They "came of age" with Desert Storm and have been a blight on the ass of America ever since. They were a tolerable blight, but a blight none the less. Their bread and butter is conflict and they seem awkward and clueless when covering anything else.

But now, after just over 10 years of appalling yellow journalism, I've finally had enough.

I was so irritated with 20 minutes I saw this morning that, after I got to work, I had to rant here and put up a poll over it.

I rarely do those things.

But now... CNN has hit a new and final low for me.

[umtalal]

40. CNN is the other side of the mercenary coin n/t

[jackstraw45]

36. Well done! Who's next?

We need to REALLY make our message clear.

This has gone TOO far.

[Walt Starr]

37. Just called them

Told the operator I was a long time viewer until I began to see the coverage of the Democratic National convention. I said that they had crossed the line from journalism into being propogandists for the administration.

Told him I would never watch their network again and that, like Fox News, CNN would be blocked from viewing in my home.

[DS1]

41. Sent to Wolfie:

You stopped being a journalist years ago, and your slanted blathering is a disgrace to genuine newscasters. You'll never be sink to the level of your counterparts over at Fox News, you should quit embarrassing yourself and stop trying.

[sinkingfeeling]

42. Sent email to CNN.com this morning for their 'Bush vs. Bubble Boy'

on the home page. Asked them if they were trying to 'outfox' Fox. And why, since they admit to having the nose-picking and cheerleader pictures of Bush, it didn't show both and be called 'Girlie-man cheerleader vs. bubble boy'.

[Nite Owl]

44. Wrote to them months

ago and told them we would no longer watch. I do occasionally turn it on like for the Edwards interview on Larry King. I used to watch all the time but it's real easy to not turn them on. They are in some ways worse than Fox. At least they make no pretense to be 'fair' and people still think CNN is the liberal channel. With friends like that who needs enemies. So Kagan said the viewership was low for the convention? Of course it wouldn't occur to them that they had something to do with it? A lot of us were on cspan and wouldn't go near the networks. Wonder if cspan ratings have been higher than usual.

[hatrack]

45. Kick for the late afternoon crowd

.

[liveoaktx]

46. Dish network-if you have this, you can BLOCK stations from

your list. Easy to do, and then you don't even have to accidentally stumble into the toxic waste. I don't have Fox in my channel list anymore.

I assume DirectTV is the same way.

[jayfish]

48. My Comments To CNN & A Kick

You Have Lost A Long Time Viewer

I would like to know what you are attempting to accomplish with your coverage of the DNC? Well, I don't know what the answer is but I can tell you what it looks like to me. It looks like one, unceasing, attack on John Kerry and his wife. You have really outdone yourselves this time though. You have managed to take every, negative, Republican talking point against the last three democratic nominees, roll them all into one festering attack ad and give your, right-leaning pundits full permission to swing-away with it all. All of this interspersed with a few nice speeches to give the appearance that you are actually "covering" the convention. Yeah, your covering it alright but I won't go into what your covering it with.

Lets see:

He's boring=Al Gore
He Makes Stuff Up=Al Gore
He's A flip-flopper=Bill Clinton
His wife is out of control=Bill Clinton
His wife is out of control=Mike Dukakis
He takes silly pictures=Mike Dukakis

Now, I can usually stomach most of the bile that now passes for news on CNN but this latest story (see Republican feeding frenzy) of John Kerry and the picture of him in the clean-suit has pretty much finished it for me. What are you doing to level of discourse in this country? Heaven forbid that someone would have to wear a clean-suit on a spacecraft. Is that funny stuff to you? What‘s apparently even funnier to CNN is that he was enjoying himself. Yup, genuine enjoyment and the smiles that accompany it should defiantly be considered a target for ridicule and rise to the level of political discourse. CNN is absolutely pathetic in it’s coverage of both John Kerry and the DNC (and most other things as well) is even worse. I have been watching you from your start but that pastime has now come to an end. These are serious times and you are not serious journalists.


Jay

[Frank Rose]

49. My .02

Over the last 24 hours CNN has fallen to such lows, I thought, only attempted by Fox. Your alliance with the right wing fringe in American politics has become sickening. I refer to the meeting with GOP senators and representatives. I am watching C-Span right now, and will continue throughout the election season, I will no longer watch CNN because of the intentional lack of objectivity. I will, however compile a list of advertisers and write them explaining why I will no longer support them. You are no longer the network Mr. Turner built.
Good bye

[Blue Gardener]

50. Done

Emails sent. I asked if the Democrats will get equal time at the Republican convention.
>edited for typos

[jackstraw45]

51. SPREAD THE WORD...let's DO this. DON'T Turn on CNN!

And call them and let them know you're NEVER watching again.

They are a sacrifice to the Corporate Media RNC propaganda machine.

Just don't WATCH.

[Shopaholic]

52. I just fired off an angry e-mail to them

my second in two-days to them--this time over the Kerry "bunny" suit photoshop pic. Told them that I expected as much out of Faux but to see them stoop this low was really maddening. Informed them that I'd be flipping my TV to watch on C-Span. Of course, if I do that, I can't call them on this bullshit, and trust me, I'm in full bullshit calling mode these days. I will not go quietly this time like I did four years ago. We can't not watch--we have to actively monitor these networks and DEMAND that they be fairer in their coverage--let them know that they are alienating half their viewing audience--could that be why cable network ratings have fallen???? Fight back people!

[jackstraw45]

53. Will you STOP watching them and let them KNOW you're not watching?

If we keep going back to them, they KNOW they'll get higher ratings if they keep going in this direction.

We MUST cut them out of our watching.

[jackstraw45]

54. Kick...

:kick:

[Zorra]

55. I don't watch TV .

It's a right wing tool that is used to destroy our country, and does not deserve support.

[Only Me]

56. Lets ADD MSNBC to the list!!!!!!!! CNN And MSNBC !!

They are so one sided and viscious, it is sickening! :puke:
They SCARIEST thing is the they are seriously misleading the
very voters we need!! :grr:

[Bush was AWOL]

57. CNN is now to the right of MSNBC

their reaction at the end of Teddy's speech was disgraceful. Wolf and Judy are being paid to whore for the Bush administration.

[Only Me]

59. I have avoided CNN and MSNBC all day for this very reason,

I normally don't even watch them at all. But yesterday I tried to catch some DNC coverage, and I got so mad I couldn't even watch anymore. Then I saw c-span covering it. I can't stand to think of how many uninformed people out there that rely on these
stations for what they believe to be 'bipartisan news'. Only to
be duped with lies and inaccuracies under the name of fair journalism.

[democrat_patriot]

58. BOYCOTT - get their attention.

1. When this crap comes out we need to counter it immediately. Email every address on the internet with pics of * doing his everyday stuff. Create a hotmail account if you want to be anonymous,and send to everyone you know. Make a list- media-congress-friends-family-businesses. You only need to create it once. Keep addin to it. SPAM them. I know it's 'wrong', but they do it. And it's working. How many LIEING emails do we debunk daily here? Need help ask me.

2. Email write and phone EVERY time they show this full-on partisan crap. Use the word boycott like an anthem, put it in the subject line. Use Outlook? Mozilla? Or Microsoft express? Any client can be set up with a pre-written template, and an address group. Takes 10 seconds - open - edit if necessary - click send. Need help ask me.

3. Go on a 'guerilla' media blitz. Leave DNC talking points in restrooms, reataurants, taxis. Put bumper stickers (and there are plenty that do a great job of putting * in his place) on any surface that we can.

4. Wear democratic talking point t-shirts.

5. Put a sign in your car window.

We are the MAJORITY folks. We have matched Bush with small donations - 10X as many as from his 'base' Don't forget it! Be proud knowing you are doing the right thing.

We are an intelligent, caring group of people. We raised more money, we can raise more awareness.

[nomatrix]

60. I don't watch it. What was their beef about Kerry?

Did they want another shuttle to explode?

They really don't know anything about KSC. If you go near a clean room it is exactly that. Sterile environment.

[nomatrix]

61. Please suggest they hire the muppets to do the news

http://www.spacekids.com/spacenews/mrclean_000105.html

they think they are talking to children.

They will report when the billion dollar Hubble didn't work because of dust, not over their heads. You know, in their super clean rooms no makeup, no hand creams, never mind. Bunny suits are too funny.

What's up with them? Are we at the supermarket with Bush I again and the scanners. What's this?

Send them a news flash, they are used in hospitals too. Nuclear power plants, computer companies.......

[nomatrix]

62. Sorry, just one more note

Lou Dobbs. He is good. Don't boycott him.

[jackstraw45]

63. Sorry...

CNN is a NEEDED sacrifice to show the Corporate Media we mean business.

JMO.

Do we have spines or are we going to let them continue to treat Dems this way KNOWING we'll watch, get mad, write them and then watch again.


Not THIS Democrat.

[DemBones DemBones]

64. I'm afraid Lou has gone back to the dark side.

He was bad last night.

[jackstraw45]

65. It ALL comes from the Corporate Media bosses....

They send the memo that tells producers WHAT will be said.

WE KNOW what the White House does. You folks who watch CNN see their script EVERY day.

[Randers]

66. It might be more effective

to say you won't watch until they change their anti-Democratic stance.


If they have lost you forever - there is no incentive to change.

I do believe that the conservatives have been more effective in creating a "conservative" media with all of their calls/emails.

[jackstraw45]

68. They've crossed a line....a network of RNC propaganda

Always taking shots at democrats.

I'll NEVER listen to Rush.

And unless CNN fires Judy, Wolf, Candy, Daryn, & the gang, I don't see much major changes coming.

Unless the government breaks up the Corporate Media giants, this type of RNC infotainment will continue as long as it's watched with glee from the right and watched with anger from the left.

It's about making the rich richer and keeping the poor and middle class in a servile mode. Emails won't change it.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

67. CNN is so lightweight these days

When I was in the US last year I watched CNN on a few occasions and found it not only to be biased but also quite lightweight in the kind of news it covered

It's funny...back when I had regular access to CNN in 1991, it was much more informative and balanced and had some genuinely good quality shows on during that time. It seems to have deteriorated significantly somewhere over the previous eleven years