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Video: Jon Stewart Destroys CNN

I sort of disagree with Jon Stewart on this one.

I feel like CNN there have been some improvements in the way AC360 is produced ... but it should be noted that AC360 is the only CNN program I've been watching, and even that is maybe once a week.
 
Not to mention they might not be in such horrible shape if Stewart hadn't gotten them to cancel Crossfire. They tried and failed to be the sort of hard-news outlet Stewart wanted them to be when they could have been appealing to both sides of the aisle.
 
Identity? How about just reporting the news? Fox is so far to the right and MSNBC is unbelievably left, if CNN would just bring us the facts, they'd secure many of us who are fed up with the other two.

I occasionally watch CNN International. Far less of a tabloid touch and more professional. Maybe take a hint there...
 
Studio20 said:
Identity? How about just reporting the news? Fox is so far to the right and MSNBC is unbelievably left, if CNN would just bring us the facts, they'd secure many of us who are fed up with the other two.
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Agreed! They should have all of the opinion shows on HLN and leave CNN itself for straight reporting.

Studio20 said:
I occasionally watch CNN International. Far less of a tabloid touch and more professional. Maybe take a hint there...
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Sadly, I don't get CNN International. I do get BBC World News, though.
 
Studio20 said:
Identity? How about just reporting the news? Fox is so far to the right and MSNBC is unbelievably left, if CNN would just bring us the facts, they'd secure many of us who are fed up with the other two.
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They've tried it. It doesn't work. Tell me how The Situation Room or AC360 isn't exactly what you describe (at least pre-Zucker). Despite the whining of a minority, most Americans who just want "the facts" are watching the network newscasts. Americans don't want "the facts" from cable news, and that's why Fox and MSNBC are doing as well as they are. Reporting "the facts" only gets each side accusing you of being a less radical version of the other side's network.

I have always said CNN should be bipartisan, not nonpartisan. I want the likes of Keith Olbermann and Glenn Beck on the same network, if not the same show. ESPN's Pardon the Interruption is more popular than any show on cable news among the latter's own audience; why not do a political version of that? That's why I said Stewart was partly to blame for CNN's woes for getting Crossfire cancelled; not only has pursuing "the news" like Stewart wanted resulted in CNN's "steady spiral downward" into the basement, it's deprived American culture of one of the few places where left and right could come together and challenge each other's viewpoints, allowing the political landscape to get more and more polarized. Stewart must realize by now that his own show (also more popular than anything on cable news among their own audience) has become a rallying point for liberals, showing the folly of the straight-news approach in a world of irrational, tribal humans.
 
mescutia said:
Studio20 said:
Identity? How about just reporting the news? Fox is so far to the right and MSNBC is unbelievably left, if CNN would just bring us the facts, they'd secure many of us who are fed up with the other two.
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Agreed! They should have all of the opinion shows on HLN and leave CNN itself for straight reporting.

Studio20 said:
I occasionally watch CNN International. Far less of a tabloid touch and more professional. Maybe take a hint there...
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Comcast used to carry CNN International, but they stopped a couple of years ago. I now only see it when I travel to other countries. It IS much superior.

Sadly, it would probably get even lower ratings in America than regular CNN.

Sadly, I don't get CNN International. I do get BBC World News, though.
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mescutia said:
Morgan Wick said:
Despite the whining of a minority, most Americans who just want "the facts" are watching the network newscasts.
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Or just getting the news off the Internet.
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And chances are, that group is getting it from places like CNN. The Internet may well be the new home of straight news, with there not being much reason to sit down and watch at a specific time unless you're an old fogie used to the network newscasts. That's another reason Fox and MSNBC are so successful: they offer actual shows people want to watch as opposed to the same news you can get anywhere else at your own pace.
 
I miss Walter Cronkite..... :'(

Why can't we just dump the fancy holograms, those ANNOYING tickers at the bottom of the screen and get back to REAL TV news. You'd think (being CNN), they'd invest in top notch, no B.S. journalism instead of all these North Korean rockets floating around their studio and virtual goats on the set.

CNN has become a parody of itself......
 
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