Does anyone here watch CNN anymore?

[burythehatchet]

I had not tuned in for months, but with David Gregory the only other option (not an option for me), I decided to see what was happening at CNN. 5 minutes. It only took 5 minutes to remember how horrid CNN has become.

I'm curious if anyone here even considers CNN an option anymore.

Cash Cab for me, thank you.

[NightWatcher]

1. I ditched cable last month......I only miss the Discovery channel

[burythehatchet]

5. I'm close to doing it as well. Although I'm locked in to a Dish Net contract

[DesertFlower]

2. on sundays when MSNBC is not

reporting the news, but when lou dobbs comes on i switch to fox news. can you imagine? i prefer fox to lou dobbs.

[valerief]

12. and I prefer watching Clean House to both! nt

[DesertFlower]

15. lol. nt

[valerief]

17. Niecy Nash beats Lou Dobbs or Bill O' Lielly any day!!! I still want

to see her waltzing into the Capitol and saying to the camera, "Who wants Cleeeeeeean House?" Every American watching will say to their teevee screen, "I do, I do! Clean the House, Niecy. Please."

[Subdivisions]

50. I'd watch that. Funny thing ya'll mention Clean House. I was supposed

to be working Sunday because I was hanging with a friend who was in town from Virginia on Saturday so I didn't get any work done on an article I was writing. So, I was working on it Sunday and I went to take a break in the living room with my s/o. She was watching Clean House and I got sucked in and sat there for THREE HOURS!

I guess I like the show! I know I'd love to see Niecy kick some congressional ass.

[valerief]

58. It's addictive, truly addictive. nt

[crikkett]

21. I prefer Cleaning House to watching TV

but you might have just said that... is there a show called 'clean house'?

:shrug:

[valerief]

24. Omigod, it's my favorite show on the junkbox. Here's a link.

It's on the Style Network. It's fabulous, like watching a train wreck. It's amazing what pigs Americans are.

http://www.mystyle.com/mystyle/shows/cleanhouse/index.jsp

Niecy Nash makes sure these inert, lazy, American pigs stop their foolishness and mayhem and start keeping their homes clean.

[NuttyFluffers]

33. zOMG, that was wonderful! that's almost worth Style channel alone!

i always wondered if we could build an artificial island with all the crap we end up living with cluttering our lives. seeing how some people pack rat all that crap i am assured we might be able to make something larger than Delaware!

[valerief]

43. They do it every week on the show. It's amazing what people hoard.

That's the real appeal of the show. Not the home makeover. That's incidental.

Why do people vote the way they do? Just look at how they live.

[still_one]

3. I stoped watching after the 2004 elction. They are actually worse than faux

why?

You know what faux is, but cnn tries to portray themseleves as objective

[truedelphi]

4. I gave up on CNN some time ago

The day that Wellstone's plane crashed

Full details are here:
http://tinyurl.com/5r9qym

[donco6]

6. I tried this past weekend

Had Headline News on most of the afternoon. In a word - VAPID.

[burythehatchet]

8. CNN HN has been deprogrammed from my TV. 6 hours of Glenn Beck daily is

a crime against humanity.

[donco6]

29. And I totally switched it off at the first sign of . . .

. . . that blonde nasty woman who does court cases. Forget her name.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

7. Nope.

One hour of Olbermann is about all of the Corporate Media I can stomach, and sometimes I can't even take KO.

[valerief]

9. Cover Nothing Network? Christian Nonstop Network? Conservative Neocon Network?

No, can't say I do, except to pass by it.

[SOS]

10. Have not seen CNN since November 2004

But from the clips on The Daily Show, it looks like it's even worse now.

[Kahuna]

Not I. The Jeff Gannon whitewash was my absolute last straw.. Though..

I will admit I will watch them on Sundays for my election news fix.

[Selatius]

11. I only watch CNN for cursory information. It is horrible if you want in-depth coverage on anything.

If you want coverage on issues with the environment, the state of public education, health care, American infrastructure, the war in Iraq, the economy, corporate corruption, etc., you are going to be terribly served. CNN, in that case, would not be for you. You are better off using the internet to research the issues, sadly.

[Kittycat]

13. CN-What? Never heard of it.

:)

[Skittles]

14. no

but I LOVE Cash Cab :thumbsup:

[burythehatchet]

18. I love the Cabbie's snark!

[nickinSTL]

16. only during elections

I know, I know...

but sometimes I like seeing how they're breaking stuff down. :shrug:

[RazBerryBeret]

19. I like to watch Jack Cafferty....

sometimes.

and I watch Anderson Cooper late night--just cause I like him....
I watch/listen when they broadcast Obama speeches online during the day...that way I get to hear them at work, w/headphones on and no one knows.

that's about it. but I agree, it is not watchable for long...

[SalmonChantedEvening]

20. Not for more than fifteen seconds at a time.

I still have PBS, AMC and TCM, so I'm not ready to kill my teevee just yet.

[burythehatchet]

23. ...and IFC, though I miss Sundance, it isn't in my dish package :(

[SalmonChantedEvening]

45. Oh, and Jon Stewart ;)

:D

[rucky]

22. You'll learn more from Cash Cab.

[marmar]

25. Hell no......

May the Corporatist News Network rot.

[devilgrrl]

26. I think they're worse than FAUX

At least with FAUX, you know what you're getting.

[femmocrat]

27. Since Comcast took away my MSNBC, I'm relegated to the likes of CNN.

Like someone else mentioned, I can sometimes tolerate Cafferty and Anderson Cooper. The rest of it is just wretched.

[doc03]

32. The Comcast SOBs took my MSNBC too, so I

watch CNN some. When I go to the gym to workout I am forced to watch FOX, it seems like that's the only channel they have. It's a health club ran by the Catholic Church and it's in West Virginia so I am surrounded by Freepers.

[proud patriot]

28. Only on weekends when MSNBC is running Docu-Dramas

:shrug: maybe I should go outside :think:

[seasat]

30. Fareed Zakaria's program, GPS, on Sundays is worth watching

He usually has experts on panels to lead discussions instead of the usual talking heads. It's one of the few news programs I make sure to watch. I also watch Anderson Cooper when he's anchoring his show. He's not too bad, occasionally goes in depth on a topic, and I find out the latest MSM talking points. Plus I can do my daily Soduku while watching it, since it doesn't require a lot of attention to follow.

[spanone]

40. i do like fareed. we'll see if his show lasts.

[chknltl]

31. Not an option... Aqua Teen Hunger Force has more interest for me.

CNN is Corporate Propaganda mixed in with a whole lot of infotainment. CNN is on the bottom of my list for finding news that I would deem reliable. I get my news from a progressive radio channel, (AM-1090 in Seattle). It is on in my home at least 12 hours a day.

(For The record, I was once stuck watching part of an episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force...I now believe that Aqua Teen Hunger Force is a form of torture. I would easily confess to killing BOTH Kennedys if ever forced to watch it again!)

[TlalocW]

34. I get more information, savvyer political insight, and better interviews

From the Daily Show and the Colbert Report. That's how sad the media are in this day and age.

And I watch them on Hulu.com

TlalocW

[City Lights]

35. Not me.

In fact, I don't watch much cable nooze at all anymore. When I do tune in, it's to Countdown, TDS, or The Colbert Report.

I do like Jack Cafferty though, and would watch CNN if he had his own show.

[azmouse]

36. I stopped watching CNN about 8 years ago.

It's worthless.

[bigwillq]

37. I was just watching it.

I flip between all of the news stations just to see what they have to say and what they are covering. They're not so bad...many here think they yield more influence than they do. The problem is with the American people. Most are just too lazy to investigate an issue themselves. They want to be spoon-fed. They need to be blamed just as much as the media.

[spanone]

38. lou dobbs is a pain in the ass. wolf blitzkrieg is no better. hate it. morining crew-pathetic

[FrenchieCat]

39. They are all terrible!

It's all about scandals, etc.....

They are traitors in my book.

[LWolf]

41. Nope.

If it's on a tv screen, I don't watch it. I do get bits and pieces of radio news from NPR and the local community radio station when I'm driving.

I don't do enough driving for that to make any difference. I get my news from newspapers and my 'puter.

As a matter of fact, I rarely watch video news on the 'puter, either. I like text. I don't want to sit and watch somebody talk. I can read, and think, faster than they chatter.

[lynettebro440]

42. Only watch KO

usually have them on mute and unmute it when rachel comes on, other then that they all suck...except cafftery, he looks like he's in pain but speaks his mind.

[graywarrior]

44. I have an automatic aversion to it.

Haven't watched it for a loooooooonnnnnngggg time.

[EFerrari]

46. No I'd rather watch reruns of "Everybody Loves Raymond". n/t

[DeeDeeNY]

47. Cash Cab is still on? Great show!

There was a time my son was obsessed with watching all the episodes, and then I actually started enjoying them too. I didn't realize they were making new ones.
After your post, I think I'll keep my streak going of never having watched CNN or just about any other mainstream news show, with the exception of Keith. Everything else I get from non-mainstream news: GoLeft TV, Nova M Radio, Stewart and Colbert.

[burythehatchet]

48. Democracy Now should have a wider distribution, but then that would be embarassing

for the suits.

[Subdivisions]

49. I think I've finally shaken my cable news addiction. Thankfully. n/t

[YvonneCa]

51. Could you be making a mistake by not...

...watching, at least once in a while? I AM NOT saying the cable networks are good programming. But I think there is value (painful as it is :7 ) in keeping tabs on what they are saying, and emailing in response to things you don't agree with.

Thoughts?

[burythehatchet]

53. If I thought that the powers at CNN were open to public comment

then I would certainly let them know. However, CNN has made a strategic decision to throw in with Repukes and I feel that my comments go straight to the "yeah OK" file.

[YvonneCa]

54. I'm sure mine do, too...

...but I'd like the company. :7

[Supersedeas]

52. negative -- i peek in to laugh at Lou Dobbs to avoid Tweety's whiny arrogance

[Nevernose]

55. Daily Show/Colbert Report are more unbiased, accurate, informative, and timely

The Daily Show and The Colbert Report are more unbiased, accurate, informative, and timely than CNN is. Why would I waste my time on CNN? It's either fluff, spin, or -- worst of all -- invented controversies.

I'll admit to having a crush on Robin Meade, though.

[cliffordu]

56. I'll watch Cafferty, but that's it. I'd watch to see someone puncture Lou Dobbs, though...

And watch all that pus escape.

[Kaleko]

57. No.

Unless the guests on Larry King have info I'm currently doing research on. That happens maybe twice a year.

[Swede]

59. All the time.

It's a great source for news.