Posted on 12/22/2019 8:57:13 AM PST by Magnatron
Tucker Carlson Tonight reported CNN is spending millions of dollars to have their channel played at fifty-eight airports across the United States.
As Carlson explained, CNN is paying the airports approximately $100,000 each to “pump propaganda into America’s airports, holding its hapless travelers hostage.”
He commented: “It’s not something [the airports] would do willingly. Who would? Nobody watches [CNN] – it’s garbage.”
“This service is likely costing CNN six million dollars a year,” Carlson explained. “But they do it anyway because what’s the value of propaganda?”
Carlson was joined by author and commentator Mark Steyn to further discuss the topic.
“They pay over six millions dollars to bother people, to hector people in airports,” Steyn said. He suggested, “You know for six millions dollars they could actually afford to buy Murder She Wrote reruns…and they might actually have a sporting chance at some ratings.”
“I was at LAX yesterday while the anchors were talking about what a sad, somber, solemn, sorrowful day it is,” Steyn continued. “And people did look sad, somber, sorrowful, and solemn – but that was because they had been stuck at gate 59 watching Wolf Blitzer for four hours.”
Better, phone apps that screw with each tv monitor in the airports-— scramble the screens. It can be done, like the phone scramblers in theaters back when- they were fun!
“CNN>>>Its also where most if not all of Europe gets the news about America.”
I know several Euro’s. They do believe Trump is another Hitler, we all carry and shoot things up, and often beat people over the head with our Bibles.
CNN: Domestic Enemy.
That’s okay. I have an Android with unlimited data.
5.56mm
Just insuring their communist anti American propaganda gets out!
Lol - that’s a tough call, I gotta admit.
“yet are allowed to tout themselves as the most watched channel in the world. only because they have to pay for it!”
About as real as the Rolling Stones billing themselves as “the greatest rock ‘n roll band in the world” or Muhammad Ali billing himself as simply “The Greatest” (he, at least, could back it up).
The Minneapolis airport is paid $200 thousand....
I watched Carlson cover this. I happened to be at the Minneapolis airport on Fri. and checked out 2 gates. I could not see a single person watching it. Even those sitting in front of the TV were on their cell phones. More than half the seats at the gate didn’t even face the TV.
I’d say more than 80% of the passengers waiting were on their cell phones with the rest talking to each other or reading a book. CNN is behind the times.
Contact the airports and tell them you don’t want to see CNN. If enough people start protesting, change will happen - the leftists would never let airports force Fox News on travelers, and there is no reason for conservatives to let this stand.
If the medical office you frequent has CNN on every time you visit and you can’t find the remote, you are being treated by a leftist sympathizer with imperialistic tendencies.
Does this fall under the FCC? Can other networks demand equal access to these public areas?
Can the Airports be Sued for Inflicting Cruel and Unusual Punishment on Travelers????
We do a lot of road trips each year. A lot of motels have their TVs set to be on CNN when you turn them on. It happens so frequently, that I wonder if CNN pays them too. The breakfast rooms often have CNN on too. I have wondered if the companies that count the audiences of various channels count that involuntary short view of CNN before I can switch channels.
I even found one motel that did not list Fox New Channel among the more than a hundred that the motel listed on their paper TV channel sheet. They used Dish network, so I knew which channel Fox was on on Dish.
I thought about pointing that anti-Fox behavior out in an online review of my stay, but I realized that my review might make rabid Democrat travelers stay there. As slight as that effect might be, I didn’t want it to increase the motel’s business.
We stay in that small city a half dozen times a year. Because of their bias I stopped staying at that motel, and I told the desk clerk why when we checked out.
Just do what I do: https://www.tvbgone.com/
They could pay me, but I reserve the right to renegotiate once a month.
Let’s flip the script. How much is CNN being paid by other interested parties to pay 59 airports to keep displaying CNN’s hard left bull crap?
No one can even hear it. No one is paying it any attention.
hahaha
We probably are.
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