Tuesday 20 July 2021

My Seven Problems With CNN

 1.  About fifty percent of the news coverage now seems more like a lecture, than an actual news report.  

2.  The CNN will take a fairly routine story with five simple facts....which ought to take 3 minutes to lay out.....but they turn this into a 9 minute report.  Then they bring two 'experts', who spend another six to eight minutes on the same five facts.  Finally, the grand guru steps in and spends five minutes drilling down into the same five facts.  

3.  CNN is incapable of telling you a balanced report.....most of the news analysts are going to a one-sided story.

4.  About a quarter of all of the journalists you see on CNN....aren't that bright, and I could probably perform at their level or better myself.

5.  For 2020, the bulk of all CNN coverage was Trump and Covid.  No kidding.

6.  Some of these 'experts' who appear....marginally know anything about their expert topic.  This makes you wonder how CNN found them or the amount of review in the process.

7.  If anything negative comes up about the Democratic Party....it's probably better than 80-percent chance that the negativity will never be mentioned by CNN.