What has happened to CNN? The Most Trusted Name In News. You Can Depend on CNN. A News Channel for America. I don't think so. Whatever has happened, I can no longer watch it.
CNN has shed all it's credibility in a headlong rush to be more Fox-like than Fox. Gone is the in depth reporting. Gone are the serious newscasts. Gone are the international stories. What's left is Anderson Cooper, a chariacature of a news anchor, that zombie Larry King, endless stories of the tabloid news piece of the day, trapped minors, missing white girls, honeymoon sabotage, what have you. I can't fucking stand it. Even Headline News, which used to be a reliable place to catch up on the day's event, seems to be 24 hour wall to wall Nancy Grace all the time. (what the fuck is up with that?)
Other than C-span, there's nowhere on the cable dial to turn to for news. I still get the bulk of my news from PBS and NPR, Google News and blogs here and there. MSNBC? Forget it. Fox? You've got be kidding. Ocassionally BBC. Surely the New York Times, the Washington Post, the LA Times.
It seems to me that there's a place in the cable universe for a network that actually reports the news. Wouldn't that be a beautiful thing? CNN does have an entity that fits this bill (or used to). It's called CNN International. Sadly, you can't get it here and possibly (it's been a long time since I've seen it) it's just as corrupted as its domestic counterpart.
Hey you, I've always been both surprised and dismayed that CNN passed for quality news here in the States.
Frankly I've always thought it was crap. Give me the ABC (that's the Australian Broadcasting Commision) or the BBC or The Lehr news hour. The rest are a complete and utter waste of time.