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How CNN Lost its Way
Townhall.com ^ | December 5, 2013 | Matt Towery

Posted on 12/05/2013 4:16:43 PM PST by Kaslin

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1 posted on 12/05/2013 4:16:43 PM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Ted Turner...

Any questions?


2 posted on 12/05/2013 4:19:05 PM PST by DoughtyOne (May his name be striken from every tablet stone building and never be said again short of treason!)
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To: Kaslin

Doesn’t matter one bit. The MSM is 1 billion times more powerful than God, and they gave us the Marxist, Kenyan, bisexual dirtbag. Live with it, deal with it. Our dreams of a diminished MSM were just that—dreams. Katie Couric told the ignorant pig-dog filth known as the American voter to vote for the Kenyan, and they did. Who cares about CNN?


3 posted on 12/05/2013 4:23:51 PM PST by Doctor 2Brains
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To: DoughtyOne

“Any questions?”

Yeah.

Why did God make the sky blue?


4 posted on 12/05/2013 4:25:21 PM PST by lowbridge
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To: Kaslin
CNN will become a diminished shell of its past

Became, already.

5 posted on 12/05/2013 4:28:09 PM PST by Dan(9698)
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To: Kaslin

The problem with CNN was its Hard Leftist slant on the news.

I grew so tired of it I requested FoxNews from my cable provider at least five years before I they finally gave in and brought it on board.

Once available, I had watched my last CNN program.

In some ways, I thought CNN had a better network. I thought they were able to provide faster coverage and perhaps a little better immediate coverage. It didn’t matter. I had been lied to and told stuff I knew better than to believe so many times, I didn’t want to bother listening to their hard Left propagandists even during national emergencies.

Who wants to watch Islamic Clerics leading out 09/11 memorial ceremonies, with the network commentator telling you what a wonderful thing it is, not a question of the moral implications whatsoever?

CNN is in the tank, because good red-blooded American citizens can’t stand to listen to it any longer. Who knew?

Those with money to buy the products their advertisers are selling, listen to FoxNews. Those that don’t are on welfare and sapping us dry on other programs.

I’m sure illegal immigrants buy CNN’s advertiser’s goods..., aren’t you?

This is a Capitalist Free Enterprise economy. Somehow the socialists forget that their pipe dreams don’t work in the real world.

Adios CNN.

Dios? LOL, CNN can’t believe in Christianity. It’s a Communist News Network.

Go without God CNN. You always have.


6 posted on 12/05/2013 4:29:26 PM PST by DoughtyOne (May his name be striken from every tablet stone building and never be said again short of treason!)
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To: lowbridge

Why not?


7 posted on 12/05/2013 4:30:03 PM PST by DoughtyOne (May his name be striken from every tablet stone building and never be said again short of treason!)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Thanks Kaslin.

Partisan Media Shills is what happened to CNN.

The last journalists retired from or quit CNN after their careers were torpedoed as company policy.

I think we all remember Bernard Shaw’s nailing of the incompetent wretch Michael Dukakis:

The Kitty Dukakis Rape Question 1988
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUXz4wFDAo0

CNN’s Bernard Shaw destroys Michael Dukakis in 1988 Presidential Debate - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9_pRmRlzY4

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Shaw_(journalist)

http://www.nndb.com/people/175/000024103/

[snip] In his career, Shaw won two Emmys, four ACE Awards, and a Peabody. When he announced his retirement from CNN in 2000, CNN covered it through their “entertainment desk”. [/snip]


8 posted on 12/05/2013 4:35:42 PM PST by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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To: DoughtyOne

Hanoi Ted.


9 posted on 12/05/2013 4:42:57 PM PST by SC_Pete
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To: Kaslin

CNN and MSNBC would both go the way of the dodo bird if cable tv is ever served up ala carte.


10 posted on 12/05/2013 4:43:33 PM PST by erod (I'm a Chicagoan till Chicago ends...)
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To: Kaslin

Nope.

CNN went for the prime advertising demographic- young (18 to 40) women.
Now no one else can stand to watch the channel.
On FOX, those young women can get a guy to sit next to them.
CNN and MSNBC are fighting over the same prized but small demographic of women who’d prefer not to have a man around...

Since MSNBC also forsakes all other demographics for those women both of them are fighting for the same product for their advertisers.

CNN had Lynne Russel back when it was a real news channel, since then it’s been run into the ground by demography ‘numbers people’.


11 posted on 12/05/2013 4:45:11 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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To: mrsmith

Wow I remember Lynne Russell. She was a monument.

currently living in Canada, a gun rights advocate, and blogging at
http://www.lynnerussell.blogspot.com/


12 posted on 12/05/2013 4:50:51 PM PST by nascarnation (Wish everyone see a "Gay Kwanzaa")
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To: Kaslin
The 900 pound gorilla in the room that the writer ignores is that CNN took a decidedly leftward tilt when Ted started dating Hanoi Jane.

Once you turn left, you're forever bereft.

13 posted on 12/05/2013 4:51:44 PM PST by FredZarguna (The sequel, thoroughly pointless, derivative, and boring was like all James Cameron "films.")
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14 posted on 12/05/2013 4:55:01 PM PST by rlmorel ("A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral." A. Hamilton)
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To: DoughtyOne

I remember CNN in the halcyon days of the late 1970’s when they showed the father of a boy who was kidnapped, raped and killed by a homosexual dirtbag, wait for him in the Baton Rouge airport, step out from behind a column and blow the pervs brains out. They showed it every half hour, on the hour, for a week.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oi3Hyxuf5AE starts at about 40 seconds


15 posted on 12/05/2013 5:01:28 PM PST by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: Kaslin
And let's be clear, the new man at the helm, Jeff Zucker, formerly of NBC is not the man to blame for the network's precarious position. He has tried many a new move and likely will attempt more as this once king-of-cable news continues to attempt to find its place in a world it once dominated.

I stopped reading right there. Did they hire any non-leftists to add any balance to their channel?? No, of course not.

16 posted on 12/05/2013 5:02:52 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: SC_Pete

Exactly right. Good job!!


17 posted on 12/05/2013 5:11:15 PM PST by jwalsh07
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To: Kaslin

If they didn’t try to think too much CNN was best for hard breaking news.


18 posted on 12/05/2013 5:22:14 PM PST by Mike Darancette (Do The Math)
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To: DoughtyOne

Going from conservative to liberal shows signs of MENTAL ILLNESS. This is re-enforced if you heard Turner talk recently about AGW and other leftist movements.


19 posted on 12/05/2013 5:25:38 PM PST by spawn44 (MOO)
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To: jwalsh07

Leftist billionaires are dangerous hypocrites. Some, like George Soros, are pure evil.


20 posted on 12/05/2013 5:54:34 PM PST by SC_Pete
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