I 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
That would be quite unfortunate.
Tell HN: CNN Lite no longer functional
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Re: Tell HN: CNN Lite no longer functional
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Criticism of CNN going to biased reporting began a decade or so ago when they started falling way behind in market share compared to Fox News and MSNBC. Unfortunately being objective doesn't give a rapid fan base. Not sure if there was a delay before it bled over to their website, I'm only aware of comments about the cable station. It is unfortunate that unbiased boring news just doesn't sell. The best college class…
I basically can't stomach watching/reading any "news" media any longer. Fox News needs no introduction, CNN follows closely behind. I'm so sickened by all the bias (one way or the other) that I feel like it's all tabloid nonsense and that it isn't worth my time.
https://www.businessinsider.com/most-and-least-biased-news-o...
A year and a half old, which is a lifetime in Trumpworld, but still relevant. The top (composite) infographic paints a pretty good picture of which outlets are most and least trustworthy, or at least viewed that way.
Interesting when you look at the partisan breakdown in the lower graphics. The Democrats adhere fairly closely to the consensus view, aside from assigning some additional weight to outlets like Washington Post and CNN. But the Republicans appear completely divorced from the middle, placing Fox News and WSJ on a pedestal and distrusting all else, including such relatively unbiased sources as PBS, AP, and NPR.
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A cursory inspection of the html shows nothing in the header and nothing blocked on the usual uBlock Origin / Firefox tracking protection dashboards. Edit - the header in its entirety: Text-Only NPR.org
Thanks for checking. I’m on mobile safari and I don’t think there are any dev tools or show source.
There are dev tools but not local, you need a laptop to connect to them
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Did it really start only three years ago? Or did you only notice it starting three years ago?
My take. For a long time CNN was the "School Shooting Channel" and the "MH370 Channel"; call it bias or not, but it was definitely focused on things that seemed to get a certain kind of person watching while biting their nails. Then Trump started running for president and CNN discovered that he was good for ratings, and surprising to them, Bernie Sanders was too. Trump was very good for CNN's ratings because for once…
> For a long time CNN was the "School Shooting Channel" and the "MH370 Channel"; call it bias or not, but it was definitely focused on things that seemed to get a certain kind of person watching while biting their nails.
And before that it was the Scott Peterson channel.
Personally, I think the invention of the 24-hour cable news network was a mistake. There just isn't enough breaking domestically-relevant newsworthy material to fill the airtime. IMHO, the only good solution to that problem is to increase the proportion of relatively mundane international news coverage or in-depth investigative documentaries. Unfortunately a lot of people aren't interested in the former and the latter is expensive. Instead the networks either fill the airtime with wall-to-wall coverage of stuff like the murder of Laci Peterson presented like it's 9/11 or Pearl Harbor or with wretched opinionating.
If I were king, I'd limit breaking news programming to two hours a day per channel, and opinion to two hours a week.
Re: Tell HN: CNN Lite no longer functional
#25FYI, another name for lite.cnn.com is m.cnn.com
Re: Tell HN: CNN Lite no longer functional
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
I basically can't stomach watching/reading any "news" media any longer. Fox News needs no introduction, CNN follows closely behind. I'm so sickened by all the bias (one way or the other) that I feel like it's all tabloid nonsense and that it isn't worth my time.
https://www.businessinsider.com/most-and-least-biased-news-o... A year and a half old, which is a lifetime in Trumpworld, but still relevant. The top (composite) infographic paints a pretty good picture of which outlets are most and least trustworthy, or at least viewed that way. Interesting when you look at the partisan breakdown in the lower graphics. The Democrats adhere fairly closely to the consensus view, aside…
There's also https://www.allsides.com but I've become so disgusted with all the politicians/politics that I don't even bother with it.
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#27Sad 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
Criticism of CNN going to biased reporting began a decade or so ago when they started falling way behind in market share compared to Fox News and MSNBC. Unfortunately being objective doesn't give a rapid fan base. Not sure if there was a delay before it bled over to their website, I'm only aware of comments about the cable station. It is unfortunate that unbiased boring news just doesn't sell. The best college class…
Objectivity is moot when all your rhetoric is pushed into emotional triggers. My experience with CNN is it's for whipping up discontent, and using news bytes to do it.
As an example, and this is totally anecdotal, the past few times I've flipped to CNN they weren't talking about the serious news of the day, e.g. impeachment proceedings, but rather spent all their time on "gut-wrenching" (their word, used maybe 4x per minute while I watched) stories like the family who was killed by Mexican cartels 1.5 months ago, when the first rumblings of impeachment started proper. I sensed nothing in the broadcast but effort to keep eyeballs glued to the screen. No interest in reporting in any way "objectively" except when that means "restate the same 4 factoids about this story until we wait for someone else to come in with a 5th". No appropriate analysis, no demonstration of understanding that cartel warfare has been rampant in Mexico for decades and the caravan that was targeted looked an awful lot like a drug transport caravan from far away, nothing.
Re: Tell HN: CNN Lite no longer functional
#28FYI, another name for lite.cnn.com is m.cnn.com
This shows the same message
Re: Tell HN: CNN Lite no longer functional
#29FYI, another name for lite.cnn.com is m.cnn.com
> FYI, another name for lite.cnn.com is m.cnn.com
That makes the "Please update to the latest version of the CNN app" message make more sense: they've probably saw lite.cnn.com as a service for phones, and decided to discontinue it in favor of their app.
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#30For anyone wanting text only news, here's a gopher service: https://txtn.ws. With a http proxy it's almost as usable as via gopher.