Time to Get CNN Out of the Airports, etc.

PJ ^ | 12/10/2017 | Roger L. Simon

[Signalman]

With minor exceptions, almost everywhere one goes that is a public facility like airports, bus and railroad stations, as well as most private venues like the lobbies of banks and corporate towers and even bars and restaurants, CNN is the default cable news network hanging Big Brother-like on the wall for all to see and believe. Often it is blaring at us in elevators.

This is true even though in terms of voluntary home viewership CNN trails massively behind Fox News and even the less popular MSNBC. It's clear from years of ratings, the people, by and large and consistently, don't want to watch CNN. Nevertheless, they are force fed the network's vision of the world as they sit stupefied in airport lounges waiting endlessly for a delayed flight. It's like having your brains drilled.

This has been going on for decades. Why?

The best you can say for CNN is that, as the initiator of 24/7 cable news, the network has a first-mover advantage, but that advantage has been perpetuated and protected by a big lie.

And that lie is that CNN is the true purveyor of impartial news. MSNBC is on the left. Fox is on the right. But good old CNN gives you the straight story.

[Daniel Ramsey]

What could be worse, a Disney owned FOX news channel?

[Radix]

Nice secretarial job if she gets to watch TV while working.

That fact alone is cause enough to find another Eye Doctor. Cataract surgery is the most common procedure in the USA. Clearly there is competition for Patients.

[Paladin2]

CNN has a special feed just for the airports.

[faithhopecharity]

Gee. It’s awful either way, imho, special airport feed or regular bullkrap

[MayflowerMadam]

Here in the Knoxville Airport, I’ve seen Fox on the TVs the few times I’ve flown. Not sure how it is now.

[MayflowerMadam]

When my sister and I were traveling earlier this year, CNN was on in the lobby during the complimentary breakfast. As we walked out the door to the car, we yelled, “Fake news!” and got a few odd looks.

[Jim Noble]

I cringe at having to be a captive audience for CNN fake news while waiting to see a doctor.

Sorry.

Only members of the Inner Party can turn off the telescreen.

"As O’Brien passed the telescreen a thought seemed to strike him. He stopped, turned aside and pressed a switch on the wall. There was a sharp snap. The voice had stopped. Julia uttered a tiny sound, a sort of squeak of surprise. Even in the midst of his panic, Winston was too much taken aback to be able to hold his tongue. ‘You can turn it off!’ he said. ‘Yes,’ said O’Brien, ‘we can turn it off. We have that privilege.’"

[rovenstinez]

Oh...yes, PLEASE do this. Better yet put pictures of Dolphins, or Mountain Peaks, symphonies, everyone has their device and can see news first hand whatever, but give us FUNERAL music or something at airports, and steer us clear of CNN please.

[MD Expat in PA]

With cell phones and tablets and unlimited data plans and Wi-Fi, who now days is even watching the TV in the airport anyway?

[jonsie]

Disney did not buy Fox News or Fox TV, just everything else.

[cyclotic]

I was at Minneapolis Airport Terminal 2 last week. As I got off the plane, a lady was playing Mary Did You Know on a Baby Grand Piano. I don’t think they had CNN on any monitors although since I travel frequently, I’ve gotten pretty good at tuning out the white noise called CNN

[techrules2002]

“You forgot doctors’ offices. I cringe at having to be a captive audience for CNN fake news while waiting to see a doctor”

One advantage of having hearing aids - - - take em out or turn em off - - - works equally well when HRC comes on the Telly -

[ThePatriotsFlag]

Up the thread, funding was questioned. Who pays for CNN to be in the airports? We would all know a lot more about this if we knew that answer.

[jjotto]

Here’s a pdf with some details of CNN Airport’s contract with the Minneapolis airport:

http://metroairports.granicus.com/MetaViewer.php?view_id=1&clip_id=1575&meta_id=19716

In their last contract CNN Airport paid the airport $90,000.

Their newest contract offer would pay the Minneapolis airport $150,000.

[deadrock]

In its place:

"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever." - George Orwell

[Vermont Lt]

Go to Hartsfield in Atlanta and tell them to drop CNN.

The Turner Networks pretty much own Atlanta. That is never going to happen.

[discostu]

When I go to a public waiting around space I bring a book. I don’t care what’s on the TV so long as it isn’t so loud I can’t read.

[Jacquerie]

We changed our Sling viewership to be rid of ESPN.

Unfortunately, one news network remains . . . CNN.

[Terry Mross]

At my wife’s provider the TVs are on cooking shows. It varies at the VA I go to but it’s seldom cable “news”. Everywhere I go where it is cable news most people ignore it.

[ViLaLuz]

I was in a doctor’s crowded waiting room and The View was on. After a few minutes I couldn’t take it anymore, so I got up and changed the channel. Everyone started cheering.