I’ve been a long-time user of CNN Lite (lite.cnn.com) since first learning of it here. It seems to have been deprecated, showing just a single message to update your app. Sad times.
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#2It was not like this yesterday (Dec 15).
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#3I've unfortunately had to stop reading CNN due to their website.
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#4Well that's unfortunate. I've used these lite interfaces when I was on bandwidth-restricted networks, including satellite internet connections. I hope they bring it back. The main CNN website is an awful pile of junk and I avoid it whenever possible.
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#5Was literally reading it yesterday as well
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#6Strange. I was reading it literally a couple hours ago.
It has gone down for extended periods in the past, most likely when the unpaid intern running it had exams or something.
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#7Well, at least there's https://text.npr.org/ ... for now.
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#8I wonder if it got a bunch of traffic yesterday from being mentioned in a HN post, and they decided it wasn't worth it.
Mentioned in here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21798623
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#9Sad times for CNN began 3 yrs ago when they added strong bias to otherwise objective and very professional coverage of natiowide and worldwide events.
I grew up with CNN being my goto window to the world. Now it feels to become more like angry, old neighbor
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#10Sad times for CNN began 3 yrs ago when they added strong bias to otherwise objective and very professional coverage of natiowide and worldwide events. I grew up with CNN being my goto window to the world. Now it feels to become more like angry, old neighbor
Did it really start only three years ago?
Or did you only notice it starting three years ago?