YEP. CNN has gone full FOX

[DLCWIdem]

I was just watching an interview one of there hosts was doing with Charlie Dent, and the newscaster started talking g about Biden's "flagging poll numbers". Someone should tell them that Bidens "poll" numbers are climbing.

[Farmer-Rick]

1. Some folks here use to label CNN as liberal

CNN was never liberal.

People really don't understand what liberal is anymore, because the news is dominated by Right Wing crazies. So when a news show screws up and mentions political truth, we think it's liberal. Even a lot of MSNBC is right wing lies.

Yeah, you're right CNN is now Fox. Not news so much as fantasy.

[gab13by13]

2. Some folks here used to label CNN and MSNBC as liberal

Fixed it for you.

I remember back when MSNBC had a liberal slant; Keith Olbermann, Melissa Harris-Perry, Ed Schultz, Martin Brashear, and my favorite, Dylan Ratigan. I knew Dylan would get axed when his last project was travelling the country exposing crony capitalism. I tuned into him just like I tune into Nicolle Wallace.

For me, I only watch Nicolle, Mehdi Hasan, and Chris Hayes. I often wonder if Rachel was forced out? I'm surprised that Nicolle was given 2 hours.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

8. You don't like Lawrence?

He's my fave now that Rachel is gone.

Not that I watch much M$M, mostly clips on YT these days.

[Meadowoak]

14. My favorite is Ari Melber.

[karynnj]

9. Although Nicolle is excellent, she is not a liberal or even a Democrat

She was part of the Bush administration and part of the McCain campaign. Even now, if asked, I am pretty sure she would argue for Bush or McCain over Kerry and Obama. She may be one of the clearest early 2000 Republicans who were and stayed anti Trump. I have no doubt that had Jeb won the nomination in 2016 that she would have been in his camp. I appreciate her integrity, like Liz Cheney's, in putting country over party when the party went extremely wrong.

[FoxNewsSucks]

11. A lot of the "contributors" and hosts on MSNBC

are not liberal, at best they are never-tRumpers who were forced out of their party by the crazies.

Some may have genuinely realized they were previously on the wrong side, some may just be waiting for a normal-type republican party to come back so they can rejoin it.

Time will tell. Meanwhile, the supposed "liberal" channel is dominated by former republicons simply because they are not crazy. The bad thing is, it still shoves public opinion to the right.

[Fiendish Thingy]

12. I remember when MSNBC had Tucker Carlson and Mary Matalin

So, things change, sometimes for the better, and sometimes just different.

Sometimes changes are driven by ideology (in the case of CNN’s new owner); more often they are driven by ratings, which some executives believe are ideology based.

MSNBC is still the most liberal news network currently broadcasting, despite its Chuck Todd shortcomings.

[mopinko]

3. i was stuck in a hotel room in wis, in a deep freeze, when michael wolfe's 1st cheato book came out.

most miserable week of.my.life.so.far.
like a dumb ass, i didnt get a smoking room. hadnt been a smoker long enough to think that way. wouldnt have been a thing, except that it was below zero the whole time.
so i was going out and smoking in my car, praying for a bit of heat before i was done. didnt go anywhere cuz everything was frozen solid.

cable only had ccn, no msnbc. nothing but wolfe and that book the WHOLE damn week.
my ears and eyes were about to start bleeding by the time i checked out.

[Shermann]

4. It's a right-wing media presupposition

They start by defining "right wing media" with the likes of Huffington Post. Bonifide left-biased news sources aren't really a threat to them because they can be dismissed out of hand. The real threats are the straighter news sources like CNN and MSNBC. So, they get lumped in with the same category so they can be collectively marginalized as a propagandistic tool.

Those who value truth will tend to evaluate each news source on its own merits and can recognize propaganda. They also generally understand that true unbiased news is a fallacy. The only way to get to that is to turn on the cameras in Congress and let them roll with no commentary whatsoever (like C-SPAN). But that's impractical for most, we need news people to filter out the news from the noise and conceptualize what is going on at a high level (prioritizing objectivity whenever possible).

[Firestorm49]

5. Licht says he wants to give Republicans a fair shot. Silly me, I thought that's what FAUX is for.

We need media weaponry now more than ever. As a political party, many of us democrats are silent. Way too silent. Yes, we do turn out at the polls and generally kick their ass, but it would be comforting, relieving, satisfying, if we were as vocal as they are - just to let them know that we are as determined and they are. Are we the silent majority? Even in DC, we’re accomplishing many things, but their megaphone is bigger than ours, and they whittle away day by day winning converts, albeit knuckle draggers, but converts nonetheless.

[samsingh]

6. if so we should all watch msnbc and cnn will either take viewers from fox or go bankrupt

[mucifer]

15. Or CNN viewers get brainwashed like fox viewers

And we all get effed

[dalton99a]

7. Chris Licht is a fascist who desperately craves Trump's approval

[GreenWave]

10. KO in a recent podcast warned us of the pro-IQ45 takeover of CNN heirarchy.

[zanana1]

13. CNN was sold and the new CEO is a rightist.

[Generic Brad]

16. They have rebranded themselves as OAN II

Hope they enjoy losing money. Because that's how you lose money.

[Fiendish Thingy]

17. Here's a good analysis on why CNN is lurching to the right:

https://digbysblog.net/2022/09/04/fish-where-the-fish-are/

Besides the new Trump loving owner of the corporation that owns CNN, the fact is, the eyeballs watching cable news continue to get older and more conservative. The much-desired 18-49 demographic is increasingly “cutting the cord” and dropping cable altogether and viewing only streaming services. The remaining viewers are older (ever notice the commercials?). Cable news makes more money from PAC funded ads in the three months before an election than they do from all other ads the rest of the year.

Thanks, Citizens United.

[gab13by13]

18. COMCAST's major shareholders;

Vanguard
BlackRock
Capital Research and Management.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

19. CNN made a real BAD Decision...

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