Dear CNN

[wiffleball 4,629]

I know you're struggling with ratings. I'll make this simple. Just because someone has an opinion. Doesn't mean you need to broadcast it.

 

First there was Rodman crying and babbling in a completely nonsensical mental breakdown a few weeks ago.

 

Tonight, it's apparently Tom Arnold. I literally watched about 7 Seconds of it. One, because the guys need it. Two, because he legitimately has mental health issues. Dude would clearly be in the manic stages during this interview.

 

I don't blame either of these fcking nutjobs. Dogs going to bark, crazies going to crazy.

 

But there has to be somebody at CNN who has the ability and sense to be able to say, you know, this isn't newsworthy, let's send this guy down the street to Inside Edition.

[shorepatrol 1,734]

I'd drink beers with you Wiff.

[Hardcore troubadour 12,559]

I'd drink beers with you Wiff.

Be careful. People have been known to lose their mind around him when he's drinking.

[Voltaire 4,550]

Being on TV is clearly very important to Dennis Rodman so he should get a lifetime pass.

[shorepatrol 1,734]

Be careful. People have been known to lose their mind around him when he's drinking.

Maybe. I think he and I would agree more than disagree face to face drinking some beers.

[shorepatrol 1,734]

Being on TV is clearly very important to Dennis Rodman so he should get a lifetime pass.

He went balls deep in Madonna in her prime. I'm jealous

[SenatorRock 708]

Dennis Rodman and Tom Arnold are probably the sanest people who have been on CNN in 2 years.

 

#fact

[Hardcore troubadour 12,559]

Maybe. I think he and I would agree more than disagree face to face drinking some beers.

Get a mind eraser

[SenatorRock 708]

Maybe. I think he and I would agree more than disagree face to face drinking some beers.

I am pretty sure wiff and I would be bffs if we knocked down some pints together.

 

#fact

[titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745]

Maybe. I think he and I would agree more than disagree face to face drinking some beers.

Hes making a crack about that story of wiffs where he was in the bar and some chick got hit by a car and he held her as her brains leaked out.

 

Thats what HT does. He makes cryptic, snide, passive aggressive references to sh!t that happened years ago. Reminds me a lot of my ex wife that way.

[Voltaire 4,550]

Hes making a crack about that story of wiffs where he was in the bar and some chick got hit by a car and he held her as her brains leaked out.

 

Thats what HT does. He makes cryptic, snide, passive aggressive references to sh!t that happened years ago. Reminds me a lot of my ex wife that way.

It's nice to have been around long enough to know and recognize all the subtle, inside jokes and references.

[titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745]

It's nice to have been around long enough to know and recognize all the subtle, inside jokes and references.

Of course, HT has only been around since December 2015. Im pretty sure that story predates that by some years. Odd.

[wiffleball 4,629]

It's nice to have been around long enough to know and recognize all the subtle, inside jokes and references.

The only problem with that is, Hardcore in quotes hasn't been around that long. That's one of the ways he was first busted as being a chickenshiit alias.

 

He tried to lie about it for a while , making all sorts of tortured excuses, but after a while even he gave up the pretense.

[Baker Boy 1,475]

I know you're struggling with ratings. I'll make this simple. Just because someone has an opinion. Doesn't mean you need to broadcast it.

First there was Rodman crying and babbling in a completely nonsensical mental breakdown a few weeks ago.

Tonight, it's apparently Tom Arnold. I literally watched about 7 Seconds of it. One, because the guys need it. Two, because he legitimately has mental health issues. Dude would clearly be in the manic stages during this interview.

I don't blame either of these fcking nutjobs. Dogs going to bark, crazies going to crazy.

But there has to be somebody at CNN who has the ability and sense to be able to say, you know, this isn't newsworthy, let's send this guy down the street to Inside Edition.

A nut job calling others a nut jobs. I think Wiff is jealous because he only has this rotten board to sound off on while they have national TV.

[Voltaire 4,550]

A nut job calling others a nut jobs. I think Wiff is jealous because he only has this rotten board to sound off on while they have national TV.

He's not the only one. I could be presidenting right now. Instead, I sit around and b*tch about things to you guys every day.

[Filthy Fernadez 2,696]

Who is more insane........the one on CNN or the one watching it?

[kilroy69 993]

The thing about cnn that makes me so mad is they used to be good. There was a time during gwbs presidency that they just stopped caring. Really. They wanted so bad to break news they would run with anything.

 

There was a time if i heard it on msn or fox I went to cnn to see what the real news was. Now cnn is straight garbage. Race baiting and mostly an arm of the dnc.

[cyclone24 1,793]

I was going to agree with you how stupid CNN is and then I remembered that fox can't put diamond and silk on the television enough. Woof.

 

Psst fox...more Abby huntsman btw. Meow.

[wiffleball 4,629]

To me, me too pretty much sums up what I've been saying about CNN for a long time now.

 

The ratings are up and their credibility is down. And that's no coincidence.

 

Because of a certain point they stopped being as worried about news and objectivity is they are about selling narratives.

 

Think about it. Take an intern or an associate producer and give them an hour on Google to look up the Myriad number of rape cases between female teachers and their students.

 

If you are seriously reporting on Weinstein and the whole me to Thing? Wouldn't you want to bookend your story with the other side? That this isn't about gender but rather about power?

 

Isn't that what we hear all the time?

 

But what is the number one daytime demographic? Women. What demographic had the most growth potential for news programming? Women.

 

Viola, ratings are up, specifically in the female adult demographic. Primarily young adult which is brilliant for advertisers.

 

So, if you're seeing an executive? You're a rockstar. If however, you're interested in journalistic integrity? Well, maybe NPR has some openings.

[Brad GLuckman 518]

I listen to CNN while cooking dinner most days. The channel is compleletely dedicated to bashing Trump. I always wonder what they will do once hes out of office. Theyve moved so far left, theres no turning back.

[posty 2,296]

I listen to CNN while cooking dinner most days. The channel is compleletely dedicated to bashing Trump. I always wonder what they will do once hes out of office. Theyve moved so far left, theres no turning back.

At least they have until January 2025 to figure that out...

[titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745]

My ex wife had a grandmother who lived with us. Late 80s-early 90s in age. Was half blind and deaf, and mind kind of came and went.

 

She would sit and listen to cnn all damn day long. Drove me crazy, as that station is just an endless loop over and over. And theyd get her all scared about something and make life miserable.

[SUXBNME 1,318]

He went balls deep in Madonna in her prime. I'm jealous

Untrue.

 

Sean Penn went balls deep into Madonna in her prime

[SUXBNME 1,318]

To me, me too pretty much sums up what I've been saying about CNN for a long time now.

 

The ratings are up and their credibility is down. And that's no coincidence.

 

 

An analogy, if I may...

 

The "smarter" they make the cars nowadays, the dumber they, in turn, make the driver.

 

troof

[titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745]

An analogy, if I may...

 

The "smarter" they make the cars nowadays, the dumber they, in turn, make the driver.

 

troof

Probably a lot of truth to that.

 

The more we become melded to machines, the more we diminish ourselves. Take smartphones for example. Nobody actually knows stuff anymore. Why would they? They have google in their pocket.

[wiffleball 4,629]

Probably a lot of truth to that.

 

The more we become melded to machines, the more we diminish ourselves. Take smartphones for example. Nobody actually knows stuff anymore. Why would they? They have google in their pocket.

Upside? Massive reduction in stupid bar fights.

 

Used to be a lot of

 

Nuh uh

 

Uh-huh

 

Nuh uh

 

Uh HUH!

 

Stoopidhead!

[titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745]

Upside? Massive reduction in stupid bar fights.

 

Used to be a lot of

 

Nuh uh

 

Uh-huh

 

Nuh uh

 

Uh HUH!

 

Stoopidhead!

Yeah, but those sometimes led to ridiculous bets. Then someone would go get a book to prove it, and the idiotic bet had to be paid off.

 

That was more fun than watching people google sh!t.

[LOD01 185]

The thing about cnn that makes me so mad is they used to be good. There was a time during gwbs presidency that they just stopped caring. Really. They wanted so bad to break news they would run with anything.

 

There was a time if i heard it on msn or fox I went to cnn to see what the real news was. Now cnn is straight garbage. Race baiting and mostly an arm of the dnc.

100℅ accurate. Used to watch their morning show but now with that smelly Camarota , it's unbearable. You know she sucking every executives on that channel because no one can be that stupid and keep their job.

[TimmySmith 2,782]

CNN ratings are way down. MSNBC has passed them to take the second spot. Rodman and Arnold are desperate move by a desperate network.

[RLLD 3,455]

There was a time when I really enjoyed watching CNN, considered it the most normative of all the news entities, then Trump was elected and they transformed away from news and journalism and into an opposition tool against Trump.

 

It is unwatchable and I avoid it now. Since I wont watch Fox, or CNN, and pretty much avoid MSNBC, I mostly get my news from BBC....

[TimmySmith 2,782]

There was a time when I really enjoyed watching CNN, considered it the most normative of all the news entities, then Trump was elected and they transformed away from news and journalism and into an opposition tool against Trump.

During the 1st Gulf War and most of the Clinton years, CNN was the premier news entity in the US, IMO. Then FOX came in and trampled them. They haven't been on top for quite some time. Now they aren't even 2nd.

[EternalShinyAndChrome 2,488]

During the 1st Gulf War and most of the Clinton years, CNN was the premier news entity in the US, IMO. Then FOX came in and trampled them. They haven't been on top for quite some time. Now they aren't even 2nd.

 

There was a reason why Fox trampled everyone, though. There was an entire segment of society that was being way undeserved and/or not represented (or misrepresented) fairly in the media for the last 30 or 40 years. They were like a breath of fresh air.

[supermike80 1,282]

There was a time when I really enjoyed watching CNN, considered it the most normative of all the news entities, then Trump was elected and they transformed away from news and journalism and into an opposition tool against Trump.

 

It is unwatchable and I avoid it now. Since I wont watch Fox, or CNN, and pretty much avoid MSNBC, I mostly get my news from BBC....

Pretty much this. All 24 hour news outlets (or most anyway) are unwatchable. They have to fill all that time with something. And a lot of it is crap. Then, somewhere someone saw that politics equals ratings and off it went.

[joneo 529]

I know you're struggling with ratings. I'll make this simple. Just because someone has an opinion. Doesn't mean you need to broadcast it.

 

First there was Rodman crying and babbling in a completely nonsensical mental breakdown a few weeks ago.

 

Tonight, it's apparently Tom Arnold. I literally watched about 7 Seconds of it. One, because the guys need it. Two, because he legitimately has mental health issues. Dude would clearly be in the manic stages during this interview.

 

I don't blame either of these fcking nutjobs. Dogs going to bark, crazies going to crazy.

 

But there has to be somebody at CNN who has the ability and sense to be able to say, you know, this isn't newsworthy, let's send this guy down the street to Inside Edition.

 

That's the problem with MSM. They have gotten away with it for so long that a lot of people are blind to it. They aren't newscasters any longer, they're story tellers who invent "sources" to get away with total bias bullsh!t.

[wiffleball 4,629]

 

There was a reason why Fox trampled everyone, though. There was an entire segment of society that was being way undeserved and/or not represented (or misrepresented) fairly in the media for the last 30 or 40 years. They were like a breath of fresh air.

And, since 90% of fox viewers are on oxygen, a breath of fresh air was particularly just what they needed!

 

GOPD

[kilroy69 993]

During the 1st Gulf War and most of the Clinton years, CNN was the premier news entity in the US, IMO. Then FOX came in and trampled them. They haven't been on top for quite some time. Now they aren't even 2nd.

My brothers and I were glued to CNN during the first gulf war. No . live war unfolding right before your eyes? I would go to sleep and he would be watching. He would go to sleep and I would be watching.

 

Then they went from being someone I trusted to someone I would never ever trust. If CNN said it was night outside I would go factcheck it. Only to likely find they ran that story on it being night outside on a leak from a democratic operative and never looked to see if it were night or day. But hey...they were first with the information.

[Sho Nuff 719]

 

That's the problem with MSM. They have gotten away with it for so long that a lot of people are blind to it. They aren't newscasters any longer, they're story tellers who invent "sources" to get away with total bias bullsh!t.

 

Problem seems more that people can't separate the personalities/talk show type things from the news side.

[Voltaire 4,550]

My brothers and I were glued to CNN during the first gulf war. No ######. live war unfolding right before your eyes? I would go to sleep and he would be watching. He would go to sleep and I would be watching.

 

Then they went from being someone I trusted to someone I would never ever trust. If CNN said it was night outside I would go factcheck it. Only to likely find they ran that story on it being night outside on a leak from a democratic operative and never looked to see if it were night or day. But hey...they were first with the information.

The two big news stories of that time frame and I missed them both.

 

The Soviet Union collapsed when I was in Basic Training (and AIT) and I only got to read the newspapers on the weekend. Then when the Gulf War happened, I was in the Gulf War. We didn't know fock all about what was going on. My mother knew more than me, she would tell me what's up on the phone cal we got every 2-3 weeks. Even when the war started and I crossed into Iraq, I didn't know the war had started. I was thinking, 'my gosh, this time it's a really, really, really long convoy' then towards the end of the day, our convoy snakes through a field of blown up Iraqi tanks still smoking and I was like "Hmm, I bet we're in Iraq."

[wiffleball 4,629]

One of my more specific pet peeves is that, like a lot of people here, CNN came to prominence during pretty heady times. The Gulf War specifically. But there were other things as well.

 

The one thing you could count on? When you heard the music and saw the graphic for breaking news? You dropped everything. Because you knew some shiit was about to go down.

 

I doubt there has been a single f+cking night in the last 8 years that they haven't used that graphic at least 12 times between 2 p.m. and 8 pm.

 

One of the comedians, I forget who, One of the comedians, I forget who, joked about it not too many years ago at the warehouse correspondence dinner. Hey wolf! Not everything is breaking news, okay?

 

They flashed to him. He didn't even try to break a grin. He was f*cking furious.

 

Just one of the simple, measurable changes to their broadcast that makes them a lot less credible anymore.

[TimmySmith 2,782]

 

Problem seems more that people can't separate the personalities/talk show type things from the news side.

Is there a "news side" anymore, because I don't see it anywhere. Even RT which I loved under Obama, because it trashed both sides, is now just bashing Trump. Not that it has any personalities.