Reagan in Europe - CNN International

[dutchdemocrat]

Why bother calling it CNN International and feeding 15 minutes of Reagan for every hour coupled with Larry King spouting tears twice a day (rerun) for the last three shows.

ANN - American News Network, not CNN-International.

It's such a lame attempt at spreading propaganda it's not only laughable for most Europeans who have it on cable, it's ignored.

Here's what my cable company was advised to do, unsuccessfully, in Groningen. (the end result is we now have BBC One and Two as well as CNN)
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Programming Councils in two of the Netherlands northern most
provinces =96 Groningen and Drenthe =96 attempted to launch a
broadcasting coup at the end of last week by advising cable
company Essent to drop CNN from its standard TV package.

The councils maintained that CNN, Essent's international news
broadcaster of choice, was too 'pro-American' and had failed to
report objectively during the recent conflict in Iraq. They
suggested the cable operator instead switch to EuroNews, the
pan-European and multilingual news channel that, free of
territorial dependence, claims also to be without political or
religious bias.

According to Expatica.com, Essent issued an immediate response to
the councils' assertion saying that its current broadcast package
with CNN is sufficiently balanced. "Earlier studies have not
shown that EuroNews and BBC World are more highly valued than
CNN," Essent said.

Many European and international commentators, however, have been
vociferous in their criticism of American network coverage of the
Iraq conflict, with CNN's employment of retired Generals as
commentators and its minimal representation anti-war voices
drawing much of the wrath.

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[laura888]

1. I only wish I could ask the same of my cable company

Unfortunately, in America, we do not have an equivalent to your EuroNews. CNN is all we got.

I would like to ask them to drop Fox, MSNBC, CNN - and replace them all with CSPAN and BBC. CSPAN is the only non-biased American cable network, I think.

[Fear]

2. Whooohooo,

dat had ik zelfs nog niet gehoord :), toch maar goed dat er DU is :D