When was the last time you watched CNN?

CNN has lowest rated month in more than a decade

would never think to turn them on anymore --- if some thing bad happens in the world my info is coming off the internet

It's amazing that CNN has never broken a major story in its 3 decades of existence, and except for war coverage it's never been a leader. It's also never done well in ratings, except when an attention-grabbing news story was happening, which is why it started to air so many idiotic political commentary shows during the lulls. Fox News is basically nothing but such shows, and they let Fox News get by with half the news budget.

I only watch involuntarily, like when it's on on the TV's at the gym.

9/11/2001, excluding the minutes spent getting coffee in the cafeteria.

larrymoencurly said:   It's amazing that CNN has never broken a major story in its 3 decades of existence, and except for war coverage it's never been a leader. It's also never done well in ratings, except when an attention-grabbing news story was happening, which is why it started to air so many idiotic political commentary shows during the lulls. Fox News is basically nothing but such shows, and they let Fox News get by with half the news budget.

Wikipedia disagrees. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNN#September_11_attacks CNN was the first channel to break the news of the September 11 attacks.[12] Anchor Carol Lin was on the air to deliver the first public report of the event. She broke into a commercial at 8:49 a.m. ET

KayK said:   Al Jazeera has better news coverage than most, if not all, news channels in the US.

BBC and Al Jazeera are both excellent news channels in my opinion.
Al Jazeera does have good coverage. The only problem is the nagging suspicion watching it puts you on a FBI watch list.

scrouds said:   larrymoencurly said:   It's amazing that CNN has never broken a major story in its 3 decades of existence, and except for war coverage it's never been a leader. It's also never done well in ratings, except when an attention-grabbing news story was happening, which is why it started to air so many idiotic political commentary shows during the lulls. Fox News is basically nothing but such shows, and they let Fox News get by with half the news budget.Wikipedia disagrees. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNN#September_11_attacks CNN was the first channel to break the news of the September 11 attacks.[12] Anchor Carol Lin was on the air to deliver the first public report of the event. She broke into a commercial at 8:49 a.m. ET As I said, except for war coverage.

larrymoencurly said:   scrouds said:   larrymoencurly said:   It's amazing that CNN has never broken a major story in its 3 decades of existence, and except for war coverage it's never been a leader. It's also never done well in ratings, except when an attention-grabbing news story was happening, which is why it started to air so many idiotic political commentary shows during the lulls. Fox News is basically nothing but such shows, and they let Fox News get by with half the news budget.Wikipedia disagrees. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNN#September_11_attacks CNN was the first channel to break the news of the September 11 attacks.[12] Anchor Carol Lin was on the air to deliver the first public report of the event. She broke into a commercial at 8:49 a.m. ET As I said, except for war coverage.

terrorism =/= war

kamalktk said:   larrymoencurly said:   kamalktk said:   That's because lots of news happens in DontGiveAFarkistan.Yet NPR and PBS manage to do good, interesting reports about that place.How are NPR and PBS's ratings doing? The reports can be brilliant, but if no ones cares...I believe the PBS Newshour gets about 2.5M daily, or 1/2 to 1/3 the viewership of the highest rated TV news, NBC, and NPR's morning and afternoon broadcasts get about 6M. I'm surprise how I don't know how Nova and Frontline do. How does your favorites compare?

larrymoencurly said:   kamalktk said:   larrymoencurly said:   kamalktk said:   That's because lots of news happens in DontGiveAFarkistan.Yet NPR and PBS manage to do good, interesting reports about that place.How are NPR and PBS's ratings doing? The reports can be brilliant, but if no ones cares...I believe the PBS Newshour gets about 2.5M daily, or 1/2 to 1/3 the viewership of the highest rated TV news, NBC, and NPR's morning and afternoon broadcasts get about 6M. I'm surprise how I don't know how Nova and Frontline do. How does your favorites compare?
http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/off-topic/1189157/m16896436/#m16...
I don't know if they're rated or not. But I think you misinterpreted my initial point, which was that American's in general just don't give a hoot.

fox is on right now, will switch back to cnn at 1800. at work we go back and forth all day - at home I don't watch either.