Do you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion of CNN?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

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	Favorable
	1 (2%)
	Unfavorable
	48 (98%)
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[LetMyPeopleVote]

1. CNN has turned to the dark side

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CNN went to the darkside

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[REPUguy]

11. CNN lost me...

When Bernard Shaw asked Michael Dukakis that gotcha question about the death penalty and Kitty Dukakis. in the 1988 debate.

[Elessar Zappa]

2. Neither.

I generally don’t think they’re “Fox-lite” like many posters here do but I think it was a colossally bad decision to give Trump free air time.

[Sympthsical]

4. Same

I visit their website maybe once a day, skim through stories that seem interesting, and that's it.

Life's too short to stockpile a collection of heroes and villains in all aspects.

Sounds exhausting.

[ProfessorGAC]

20. Me, Too

Last night doesn't seem to pass the business logic test, for me.
Advertisers aren't going to pay higher buy rates because of a one off ratings bump, some advertisers might avoid buys because they want to distance themselves from this event, and the Faux viewers only watched CNN last night because it was the only channel covering it.
I don't think the reward of a one night ratings bump justified the risk.
Seems an awful business decision.

[Chakaconcarne]

7. Same here...

Very Bad decision, but based on the front page of CNN today the articles aren't terribly friendly to Trump at all....neither was the moderator as most predicted..

But there sure is a concerted effort here to get people to stop watching CNN...and I get it, but don't see CNN going full fascist/fox like some are saying..

I AM going to stop watching and visiting their site for a while, just to maybe contribute to any dip in views/ratings... That's a good enough message for me to send... and we'll see from there.

[TheRealNorth]

17. Not yet....

But if you court Faux viewers, they eventually are going to demand that your news validate their world view or else they are going to stop watching.

[Claustrum]

3. Unfavorable, but not because of recent changes.

I gave up on them since 2016. Their way of reporting changed dramatically since 2016. They used to have more international focus but switched to TFG all the time since then. Their international programming is still good but not the US based programmings.

[claudette]

5. Haven't watched

CNN for ages

[Skittles]

6. they have been dead to me for some time

it just got to be too much

I really want the news straight, without all the drama.

[Paper Roses]

8. I'm up early AM and CNN used to be one of my 'go to' stations for news after "THe Guardian".

No more. After hosting the joke town hall with tRump, and the recent things I've read on CNN, I'm gone! Is CNN trying to replace Fox? Bad move on their part.

[Meadowoak]

9. I loved CNN back when Ted Turner owned them. Can't stand to watch CNN now.

[kacekwl]

10. For a long while now.

The trump rally just cemented it.

[moondust]

12. CNN International isn't so bad.

Available on some streaming services. They focus mainly on world news with correspondents in many world capitals plus ongoing coverage on the ground in Ukraine.

After last night's exercise in fraud normalization, I'm done with regular CNN. Still seems strange that Colbert was able to work with somebody like Chris Licht.

[BlueCheeseAgain]

13. I think we need a third choice. My opinion isn't so binary.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

16. You are free to start your own poll.

[BlueCheeseAgain]

18. Eh, it's not worth it to me.

I'm just saying that I didn't find that either choice fit my views. I think as a source for news, CNN is pretty good. Their punditry is less good, but almost all punditry isn't good. The idea that they're right-wing is I think way overblown. The Trump town hall was a bad idea, but that's only one part of a big network.

Does that mean I have a favorable or unfavorable opinion? I don't know, hence my comment.

[pwb]

14. All cable news sucks canal water.

IMO.

[zipplewrath]

15. But literally since their inception

When it was just "Headline news" I used to complain that it was a "press release" network. You say it, we'll broadcast it. It really hasn't changed over the years. People want to call them biased. It's not bias, it's a disregard for accuracy. I watched the Katrina broadcast. I had a brother IN New Orleans through the whole thing. What they were saying versus what was actually happening was horrible. They would report things on day one as "we're hearing that..." and by the next day it was "it is happening...". This despite the fact that they had never confirmed in any journalistic sense that it had actually happened.

It's a great channel for figuring out what everyone is talking about. It's a lousy channel for figuring out what is actually going on.

[TheRealNorth]

19. Part of the problem is. ..

There is no money to pay journalists to research and report, so they are stuck reporting, "Tweets" or regurgitating whatever a mouthpiece says.