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CNN Dumbs Down the News for US

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My cable provider recently added CNN International (CNNI), the CNN channel the rest of the world sees. BBC World was added at the same time.

CNN (and Headline News) are mostly talk radio with pictures. The news segments are pure tabloid, if it bleeds it leads, political horse race standings with little mention of issues, natural disasters, crime and news you can use (just like local stations). CNNI is more like the old CNN, scrappy but serious and with acknowledgment that the rest of the world exists. It's all news with a lot more depth than domestic CNN provides.

CNN must really think Americans are dumb (could they be right?).
 
Well, FAUX "NEWS" is the ratings leader, while CNN's ratings have been in freefall for years. I guess that proves that tabloid "journalism" and "Breaking News" is the ratings KING.

I, too, have CNNI and thoroughly enjoy the issues focus.
 
Agreed. I wish I could get CNN International - I watch when I'm out of the country and I wish this was the level of news coverage we could get here.

"Your World Today" at 12 noon on CNN is a simulcast of CNN International so I enjoy that also. The sleek graphics and non-scrolling news bar are so much better too.

Of course, what CNN is doing now gets better ratings so we'd never see that.
 
Not the first time I've heard or seen about this either. It's a sad fact and every though people complain, some who do complain actually like it just the way it is.
 
But it's always been this way, go back to the great newspaper wars in New York City and Chicago. "Remember the Maine, down with Spain," agitation for wars, celebrity gossip was always king.

The only difference is we're passive about it now. In the old days we had to BUY the paper and READ it. Now we just turn on the tube and sit and stare.

I've done a lot of projects researching old papers and I don't see much of a difference. I just did a project with documentary and news coverage from the Vietnam War and we have Martha Ray saying how protesters are un-American and how the protesters are killing the boys in 'Nam.

It's just then in the 60s we didn't have a 24 hour news channel. They have to fill that 24 hours with something.
 
I always liked watching ABC Australia, the CBC and the BBC for pretty much the same reasons people here like CNNI. I get so tired of American network news that international newscasts look so refreshing by comparison.

http://www.abc.net.au (there's also a lot of great radio here too. For extra fun, check out the site for Australia's National Youth Network, Triple J radio and compare it to your average American alternative rock station web site. We are EONS behind them!)

http://www.bbc.co.uk

http://www.cbc.ca
 
It's really too bad you guys don't still get Newsworld International, from Canada. As a Canadian who has grown up with "real" news channels like CBC Newsworld, I absolutely can't stand CNN. I'm not sure what my parents get out of watching it.
 
M.J. said:
It's really too bad you guys don't still get Newsworld International, from Canada. As a Canadian who has grown up with "real" news channels like CBC Newsworld, I absolutely can't stand CNN. I'm not sure what my parents get out of watching it.
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Ah, yes. Another reason to be grateful to Al Gore.
 
M.J. said:
It's really too bad you guys don't still get Newsworld International, from Canada. As a Canadian who has grown up with "real" news channels like CBC Newsworld, I absolutely can't stand CNN. I'm not sure what my parents get out of watching it.
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We used to get CBC Newsworld here in Western Washington State. LOVED it, although it was mostly Canadian. But then they changed it to Current, which is a TV news network run by Google...I think. It hypes internet video a lot and encourages viewers to send in their news clips.

Some satellite operators carry the CBC (NONE carry anything from ABC Australia sadly.....)
 
I think Current is run by Al Gore. May be financed by Google.
 
formeraa said:
Well, FAUX "NEWS" is the ratings leader, while CNN's ratings have been in freefall for years. I guess that proves that tabloid "journalism" and "Breaking News" is the ratings KING.

I, too, have CNNI and thoroughly enjoy the issues focus.
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From the same tabloid trash attitudes that brought you MSN and Slate .com

(.......'scuze me while I haul off and puke my guts out!)
 
I gave up on CNN back when they fell for Saddam Hussein's staged propaganda about the destroyed Baby Milk Factory (complete with workers in yellow jumpsuits that said Baby Milk Factory across the back, in English!)
 
I must congratulate CNN this weekend.

I was very skeptical of the "Ballot Bowl" concept. However, I'm a believer that it was very helpful to actually hear large chunks of speeches, rather than just a couple of soundbites. In addition, it was better than listening to panel of so-called "pundits" blathering on and on about nothing.

Hopefully, the ratings were good enough that they will continue Ballot Bowl through the primary season.
 
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