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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsi am blocking all cnn related links and stories now on my youtube page .
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i am blocking all cnn related links and stories now on my youtube page . (Original Post)
AllaN01Bear
Jan 2023
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BigMin28
(1,791 posts)1. I quit CNN long ago
What have they done now?
TheProle
(3,809 posts)8. Report the news and engage in punditry.
onecaliberal
(36,594 posts)2. With the exception of a handful of shows, I don't watch any cable news.
brooklynite
(96,882 posts)3. Why?
CousinIT
(11,983 posts)4. I blocked them on twitter and let them know.
CNN and CBS at least are full on pushing the false equivalency re: classified docs, for just one thing.
JohnSJ
(98,883 posts)6. Unfortunately most of the outlets doing that.
Torchlight
(6,022 posts)5. I suppose in a passive sense, we've done the same in our household.
24/7 news never really appealed to me, as ratings are the priority at the expense of objectivity.
Last bit of cable I had was in the nineties (I really dug the HBO lineup at the time), and we're just over the air tv watchers at this point.
When I'm confronted with cable news these days, it consistently comes across to me as grumpy people occupying chairs in.
To us, all the cable news we've seen in recent years is just...

LetMyPeopleVote
(171,999 posts)7. I have been ignoring CCN for a while