"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever." - George Orwell
You forgot doctors’ offices. I cringe at having to be a captive audience for CNN fake news while waiting to see a doctor.
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Nothing could be more ludicrous.
And we didn’t just learn the absurdity of this in the last few months — although we certainly have been reminded in spades! It’s been true for almost as long as the network has been in existence, although clearly it has gotten worse, almost to the point of insanity, during the Trump years.
But don’t believe me. I’m a biased right-winger or something like that. Believe the esteemed left-wing pundit Glenn Greenwald.
FRIDAY WAS ONE of the most embarrassing days for the U.S. media in quite a long time. The humiliation orgy was kicked off by CNN, with MSNBC and CBS close behind, with countless pundits, commentators and operatives joining the party throughout the day. By the end of the day, it was clear that several of the nation’s largest and most influential news outlets had spread an explosive but completely false news story to millions of people, while refusing to provide any explanation of how it happened.
He is, of course, referring to CNN’s now infamous blunder (of many recently) in thinking they had a scoop on a connection between Donald Trump Jr. and WikiLeaks that would once and for all prove the Trump-Russia collusion. Not only was their information completely wrong because they didn’t get the basic date right on the clandestine email — a meagre 972 million users of Twitter already had access to the Wikileaks before the “secret missive” arrived — this supposed proof wasn’t proof of anything anyway. It didn’t prove collusion in the slightest. Yet CNN and others feasted on it like a kettle of ravenous vultures on the greatest carcass of all time. Hate ruled the day and had made them blind. Trump Derangement Syndrome had reached new heights. (If you haven’t, take a gander at the CNN video based on this “smoking gun” at the Greenwald link. It’s kind of unconscious Hieronymus Bosch.)
How is this subsidized? By the FAA. DOT?.......pull the subsidies
My buddy asked his doc if ok to change the channel. Doc said fine. Might not work everywhere but at doc office there’s no cnn pay for the placement. Might be at airport tho
Federal government cafeterias and break areas....if you only knew.
CNN is nothing but Federal government propaganda.
Getting them out of the airports is a darn good start.
They need to be totally off the grid/air/cable whatever....nada...gone forever.
I’d like to see a Trump tweet on this.
Does the FAA control the TV’s in your local airport?
If not, your local airport authority controls the content and which broadcast networks have access to supplying the electronics infrastructure within that airport.
Yes, I travel almost every week and sickening to see Fake News on every TV. That and NFL football.
Agreed. Now, how do we do that?
JoMa
You forgot to mention hotels and motels. It is so irritating to go down to breakfast early in the morning and be subjected to fake news while you try to eat. I once asked a desk clerk why they always use CNN whom I refuse to watch at home and she had no idea.
What could be worse, a Disney owned FOX news channel?
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.
With cell phones and tablets and unlimited data plans and Wi-Fi, who now days is even watching the TV in the airport anyway?
"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever." - George Orwell
Go to Hartsfield in Atlanta and tell them to drop CNN.
The Turner Networks pretty much own Atlanta. That is never going to happen.
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.