Discussion for article #230218
CNN is the worst. At least with FOX you know you’re being lied to.
When I listen to 5 or ten minutes of Hannity driving home it’s not to hear another point of view, it’s more like peeking at a bad car wreck. CNN tries to be relevant actual news and often fails a la FOX.
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Yes, Fareed, you’re smart enough to know that journalism is good and pundit shout-offs are an abomination.
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The American media has done more to degrade our society than any other public institution. There was a time when CNN was a gold standard of global journalism.
Now it’s a fear mongering punchline.
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That was a dumb damn question to ask Jon Stewart. He was visibly unwilling to be impolite to his host, but he was audibly unwilling to be anything but honest. CNN is a joke and a serious media critic like Stewart can’t pretend otherwise.
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With the GOP take over of the media,hard pressed to not find a channel without a GOP face on it,even before the takeover.
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cnn is crap; msnbc is an embarrassment and fox is murdoch. if your cable company carries it, i highly recommend al jazeera. they have actual coverage of important events and developments. funny thing is that a good number of their reporters are former msnbc/cnn people.
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Completely agree. At this point, CNN is at least just as bad as Fox News. There are people who would never watch Fox News, but might tune into CNN because they think they are getting real, relevant news there.
Right now CNN’s whining about that Obama might act unilaterally on immigration…but all that really needs to happen is Boehner and his idiots to do their damned jobs. The Senate has acted. Obama will accept that bill. Boehner wants to screw things up. And make it Obama’s fault…
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What an absurd interviewer.
“So you think CNN is valuable. Right?”
“Well, I wouldn’t say it is all the…”
“Okay but you agree with me that it is, right?”
“Well, let me put it this way…”
“Yes okay, but so you’re giving me the answer I wanted you to give, despite not having actually done so. Right? Amiright? Can we summarize your response that way? Good, then.”
If you ask questions you have to listen to the answer, not keep trying to rewrite it to fit some preconceived notion of the answer you wanted to hear. What kind of journalism is this?
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Stewart is being awfully nice. CNN has always sucked at anything that doesn’t involve following a white Bronco or dropping an anchor into a war zone. If it wasn’t imposed on us in airports, hotel lobbies, etc., I’d happily do without.
Sorry, Jon, but I haven’t seen “good Chucky” since Desert Storm 1.
I think it’s somewhere between possible and probable that a producer or network bigwig put Zakaria up to that—told him to ask Stewart for an endorsement based on certain correspondents’ willingness to go into war zones, scenes of unrest etc. You could say until you’re blue in the face that Stewart has made a living out of mocking the pretensions of today’s mainstream media, and the producer or whoever might tell you “Just try.” All part of the rich tapestry of having a job. I think it was misguided but then I’m not a true-believer apparatchik in CNN’s corporate hierarchy.
Or CNN’s cousin, Upchucky.
MSNBC has got it’s own “Chucky” - the goatee 1. Half educated tweet writing a book, titled “the Stranger” about an accomplished president, him or his fellow hacks in mainstream media will never acknowledge or praise.
A satirist is going to give you, um, what’s the word… So when you ask one for the unvarnished truth about how good you are, well, um…
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