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CNN goes first two weeks of October without any program reaching 1M viewers

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Re: CNN goes first two weeks of October without any program reaching 1M viewers

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As opposed to completely reasonable utterly sensible sources like One America Network News, Newsmax, and Russian Television?

Strange comment. Seems like you lashed out because you think I am praising those networks? Those are all terrible sources of news. What if I told you that you can criticize one while also criticizing the other? It is liberating.

Implying CNN is as disreputable as the other sites mentioned is ridiculous and you know it.

Re: CNN goes first two weeks of October without any program reaching 1M viewers

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Strange comment. Seems like you lashed out because you think I am praising those networks? Those are all terrible sources of news. What if I told you that you can criticize one while also criticizing the other? It is liberating.

Implying CNN is as disreputable as the other sites mentioned is ridiculous and you know it.

I agree with you there, that wasn't my intention. I was saying CNN is especially "eggregious" when it comes to Left media. Comparing with all other news sources from the left, I trust CNN the least.

If you say far-right media is completely bananas, you would be correct. That should not preclude you from making statements about others.

Re: CNN goes first two weeks of October without any program reaching 1M viewers

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What a terribly written article, let alone that it provides no sources. London Daily isn't a reputable and reviewed news source and it admits the following on the About Us page: > Publishing news is very simple, just click ‘add your news’ on the site and it will take the author to the article upload interface. Why was this excuse of a news article even posted here?

Why not? CNN is complete propaganda without any actual news. I really dont understand how intelligent people can watch it.

As an outsider who has dabbled in American television, this is true for all of American television.

It’s incredible how even those who don’t think they’re brainwashed are brainwashed.

Re: CNN goes first two weeks of October without any program reaching 1M viewers

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Strange comment. Seems like you lashed out because you think I am praising those networks? Those are all terrible sources of news. What if I told you that you can criticize one while also criticizing the other? It is liberating.

Implying CNN is as disreputable as the other sites mentioned is ridiculous and you know it.

CNN is terrible in my opinion. OAN and Newsmax and RT are more terrible, a lot more terrible. But that doesn't make CNN any less terrible on it's own... we're not grading on a curve here.

Re: CNN goes first two weeks of October without any program reaching 1M viewers

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All media outlets are, only the degree of audacity varies.

https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-ratings CNN is especially eggregious. NYTimes should also be on the left column which is reflected in the votes "Somewhat disagree" with the current characterization as Center-Left (scroll down). Edit: I am just pointing out a free publicly available dataset of what the population thinks of the media. Make what you will, don't shoot me.

That agree/disagree seems to be missing an opportunity, because you don't know what the disagrees think it should be instead - despite collecting that data when you click disagree. So it could be that people actually think they're more in the middle or even right than further left. Unless I'm missing something? Also seems to be extremely easy to game at first glance.

Re: CNN goes first two weeks of October without any program reaching 1M viewers

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post #19

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https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-ratings CNN is especially eggregious. NYTimes should also be on the left column which is reflected in the votes "Somewhat disagree" with the current characterization as Center-Left (scroll down). Edit: I am just pointing out a free publicly available dataset of what the population thinks of the media. Make what you will, don't shoot me.

There is nothing necessarily wrong with bias toward a specific side, unless you make the flawed assumption that the truth must be in the center.

Quid est veritas?

Politics is preference, talks of truth are usually a pretense to strengthen a reason for a given preference.

Re: CNN goes first two weeks of October without any program reaching 1M viewers

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Who on HN is upvoting this kind of garbage article? > CNN continues to lose trust for its biased news against whoever did not vote for Biden, and its promotion of an extremist hate-culture against "the other" 84 million American voters. ... what?? This trash doesn't belong here.

Why is it trash? CNN lied about Rogan taking "horse paste" when he had a regular prescription for humans: https://mobile.twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/144869603591685... CNN is not the same as 20 years ago, and neither is the NYT.

Regardless of such sloppiness, the example the parent provided is clearly not news, but rather the political bickering of a scorned individual on a different "team", as is Greenwald's tweet. They damage discourse just as does, for example, the bad reporting Greenwald is criticizing.

Re: CNN goes first two weeks of October without any program reaching 1M viewers

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Why not? CNN is complete propaganda without any actual news. I really dont understand how intelligent people can watch it.

As an outsider who has dabbled in American television, this is true for all of American television. It’s incredible how even those who don’t think they’re brainwashed are brainwashed.

The news has existed to drive public opinion for over a century, before television even existed. Hell, there was even a book written in 1922 named "Public Opinion" about the very subject. The blurb about it on Wikipedia echoes truer today than it did at the time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Opinion_(book)

The introduction describes man's inability to interpret the world: "The real environment is altogether too big, too complex, and too fleeting for direct acquaintance" between people and their environment. People construct a pseudo-environment that is a subjective, biased, and necessarily abridged mental image of the world, and to a degree, everyone's pseudo-environment is a fiction. People "live in the same world, but they think and feel in different ones."

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