Folks, on those cruises and more than a dozen others I've been on, one was forced to watch International CNN as the only source of news in one's cabin. ICNN pollutes the seven seas like decaying fish.
I kid you not....every ICNN news-reader has a foreign accent (mostly British, real Labour-type socialists), is anti-capitalism and anti-American. Every news tid-bit is as slanted as humanly possible.
I never watch the domestic CNN shows, I don't patronize its major sponsors, and I gripe nicely but firmly when CNN is the only source of news in doctors' waiting rooms, etc.
CNN is socially amoral, politically immoral, and its radical cast of talk characters are the antithesis of all the founding principles of this nation and responsible journalism.
I avoid this network like the black death. Scrue 'em!
Leni
I love the graphic '18 times the speed of light'! Just think, if CNN could travel 18 times the speed of light they would have no competition because they would be 18 times larger than the whole universe!!! ;-)
Back in the Clintooon years I used to urge FReepers not to watch these networks and then with loss of viewership they would eventually go out of business or change for the better.
I was wrong, sadly!
These companies like Disney, GE, Viacom etc. are willing to keep these propaganda organs operating at a loss just in hopes that they can persuade a few shallow minds to believe in fantasies.
The only time I have watched CNN for over 10 years is when I go to Firehouse Subs some Saturday afternoons. If football is on I can easily talk them into changing the channel! :-D I can eat in peace because I feel comfortable with mindless automatons spouting drivel that has no particular meaning. It is sort of like listening to a speech by Nikita Khrushchev! :-D