CNN used to be
legitimate. Now they are a joke. For years now, they have been laughable
in breaking news situations. Guys like Wolf Blitzer “speculate”
on what may be going on based on no actual facts. I have seen that
play out over and over. Ten minutes into coverage of a mass shooting
and he's talking about possible motive. Really? This happens all
too frequently. CNN is supposedly the world leader in news but they
are repeatedly getting it wrong. That's fine though because we can
count on their continuing non-spot news coverage right? Wrong.
Since inauguration
CNN has been probably 90% anti-Trump garbage. I get that he's a bad
guy and does stupid things. I get that. But my goodness, there're other things going on. At some point CNN was pretty straight
forward. They were pretty down the middle. Yes, they were called
the Clinton News Network for years, but that was just the snowflakes
on the right having a sad. Facts can sometimes seem to have a
leftist bent if you really really really want them to be wrong. But
the Leftist CNN perception of two years ago was not reality. The
reality today though, is this: CNN wants to be Fox News Left. That
role is already taken up though. We don't need two MSNBC's. Rachel
Maddow is huge, she's tops in her demo and regularly squashesHannity. CNN doesn't have Rachel Maddow though. They have Don Lemon
and Chris Cuomo. They ain't Rachel Maddow.
Following the
disaster of November 8, 2016, after I recovered I promised myself
that I would not be a miserable person. For years on social media,
and at family gatherings, many conservatives I know obsessed over Obama. They hated his guts. Not just that he was elected twice as
president by considerable margins, they pretty much hated the fact
that he even existed. They would tell me he was the anti-Christ and
was just this terrible person. He hates America. They'd share memes and conspiracy
theories and “alternative facts” a lot. For eight years. To a
point where you see them and you thought “that person is angry.
He's miserable. I'll avoid him.” I cannot do that. For the most
part I have avoided this. I will give an opinion on occasion but am
definitely not like those despondent, insufferable people. I see a
little of that in my news-feeds regarding Trump, but nowhere near as
much.
I recently got a
free trial of Sirius XM radio. I gave the progressive station a try.
It's exactly the same as Right Wing Hate Radio. How can people
listen to that? Always angry. Always blaming “others” for
everything. No balance, no perspective. I don't know how anybody does it, left or
right. A positive thing about that? There's only one progressive
station as opposed to numerous right wing ones. There are just as
many liberals out there as conservatives, but the radio shows are
much less popular. Are liberals less likely to be manipulated than the
conservatives? Maybe, or perhaps they don't listen to radio.
Conservatives do skew older (pay attention to what commercials on FNC
advertise!).
For CNN to pick up
the mantle and contribute to the fight is regrettable. I
watch CNN and don't know what's real and what's simply blowing smoke
up my rear. Trump is right, it is Fake News (just because you
disagree with it, doesn't make it fake. It's fake because it's
trivial).
I don't want news
that reinforces my beliefs. That's indoctrination. I want the
truth. Even if I don't like it. I wish more Americans felt this
way. It seems the only place I can get actual honest news is NPR.
We need a citizenry that's informed. Informed to make good decisions
at the ballot box and at the kitchen table. Not a citizenry that's
just at the back end of the echo chamber.
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