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CNN Reviews Summary

The feedback regarding CNN reveals a predominantly negative sentiment, with customers expressing significant dissatisfaction over perceived bias and lack of balanced reporting. Many reviewers feel that the network favors certain political perspectives, which undermines its credibility. Concerns are raised about the quality of interviews and fact-checking, leading viewers to seek news from alternative sources. While some maintain trust in CNN compared to other outlets, the overall impression is of a decline in journalistic integrity, prompting a notable number of former viewers to disengage from the channel entirely.

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Illinois
1 review
5 helpful votes
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CNN has been caught by undercover insider employees wearing hidden cameras that confirmed that the owner of CNN has a personal issue w/Trump which encourages him to force his staff to report only negatively about Trump. Hidden cameras reveal that even the workers knowingly admit that the stories they promote are fabricated. They've lost countless lawsuits for millions of dollars against people who they used without their consent to create stories to make Trump & the Republican Party look bad. CNN Should be immediately removed from national TV. Any true American should fully support & push for the complete removal of the entire CNN Network as they make a complete embarrassment out of the country & are dangerous to get your information from.

Date of experience: July 26, 2020
Florida
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Avoid
July 22, 2020

It's CNN! Enough said. Incapable of objectivity! Every word that comes out of any of the reporters/anchors mouth is completely bias.

Date of experience: July 21, 2020
South Carolina
1 review
1 helpful vote
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CNN iS THE WORST!
July 20, 2020

IT IS QUITE EVIDENT THAT CNN IS OWNED AND CONTROLLED BY THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
I AM AN INDEPENDENT. NEITHER A REPUBLICAN OR A DEMOCRAT AND I AM NOT A TRUMP SUPPORTER AND WILL NOT VOTE FOR HIM IN SEPTEMBER.
CNN POUNDS BAD NEWS TO PEOPLE. THEY HAVE EXAGGERATED THE PANDEMIC. TWISTED AND SPUN ANYTHING TRUMP DOES.
CNN SHOULD BE SHUT DOWN. ALL THE NEWS IS DOOM, GLOOM, AND DESPAIR.
A WHOLE NEW MEANING TO FAKE NEWS!

Date of experience: July 20, 2020
North Carolina
1 review
0 helpful votes
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They are why America got so bad!
They don't report anything unless they know it will cause a division!

Date of experience: July 19, 2020
Missouri
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Trash "News" Media
July 18, 2020

They used to be decent at reporting the news pre-November 2016, but now it's just an egregiously sad and pathetic crybaby forum. Hope they get shut down. They're causing far more damage to this country than they have ever helped.

Date of experience: July 17, 2020
North Carolina
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Lies and hate
July 5, 2020

I watched CNN for many years and now i wouldn't wipe my $#*! with them, especially don lemon, stirrer of hate and misinformation. There not news anymore, political hacks at best. I hope the owner of cnn runs for office so he can waste his money like he wasted our time...

Date of experience: July 5, 2020
Georgia
1 review
3 helpful votes
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The worst News channel - once upon a time a trusted source of information - today they pride themselves on gossip, slander and a clear intent to divide the American people and turn the world against the US. The most unpatriotic news station ever. So sad their reputation is destroyed forever

Date of experience: July 4, 2020
California
2 reviews
53 helpful votes
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This is the most unreliable news I have ever viewed
Hopefully after declining ratings CNN will think twice about hiring unbiased reporters or maybe not pressuring them to be biased. It gets to a point were you can predict where a interview is headed, and don't even bother to watch it.
Unfortunate how CNN from being the most trusted news is now similar to tabloid news such as National Inquirer.

Date of experience: July 1, 2020
GB
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Nothing but bought news by people who want to twist and spin the facts of current life.
News networks like this are bad for human life.

Date of experience: July 1, 2020
North Carolina
1 review
1 helpful vote
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The best news channel there is. For the ones who says they are anti Trump I totally disagree. Me personally think they're just doing their job. They just report facts and that's what the world needs to hear. To the entire staff whether you're on the front line or behind the scenes keep up the great work and thank you for your service.

Date of experience: June 30, 2020
New York
1 review
11 helpful votes
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Don't have one
June 29, 2020

Why are you not talking about the violence that is leading to to the deaths of young children. Why is everything so one sided. I t seems everyone is scared to say what is really going on in fear that that they might lose their jobs. Why is no one reporting or marching for black on black crime which has risen. Why are we listening to the stupidity of others.

Date of experience: June 29, 2020
Texas
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Horrible network
June 28, 2020

Constantly lies and fake news! Always changes stories around!...

Date of experience: June 28, 2020
Ireland
3 reviews
4 helpful votes
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Joke News
June 22, 2020

I thought Fox was the bottom of the barrel, I was wrong. CNN is even worse, and I didn't think that was possible. Such bias is beyond the pale.

Date of experience: June 22, 2020
New York
1 review
66 helpful votes
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Fake News
June 21, 2020

I watched one of President Trump's speeches and then turned on CNN. So disgusted in how CNN edits & reduces a sentence to sound like it means something totally different then what was said. CNN used to be my news channel of choice. Will not watch it again. When I catch them reporting something totally different than what actually happened and they claim it as truth, they loose their credibility. I cannot trust them.

Date of experience: June 21, 2020
Georgia
1 review
5 helpful votes
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I don't watch much cable, but when news is occurring I want to be informed. Going between the channels, CNN seems to show a slant and not the whole story. They pick a side and are biased toward the lowest common denominator. By telling part of the story and cutting out parts and adding opinion commentary is a disservice to journalism. I just want facts, and they are hard to get. I shouldn't have to go to you tube to find a complete video or check out several channels to see an entire story

Date of experience: June 16, 2020
Georgia
1 review
17 helpful votes
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Retired
June 15, 2020

Horrible and extremely biased coverage. They don't verify their information before publishing. Cannot trust them as a viable news outlet. Don Lemon and Anderson Cooper are not journalists but pundits who merely express their personal opinion. Full of hate and division. Not worth watching.

Date of experience: June 15, 2020
New York
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I'm done with CNN! They are obsessed with the president, and without a doubt out to destroy him. On top of all that, they are extremely biased, and do everything possible to play with the American people's emotions. They seem to love wherever they run into a story if it involves anything involving 2 separate races. Even if it has absolutely nothing to do race related, they will make it into a race issue, and will mention the color of a person's skin numerous times as though they are trying to anger their viewers. Like they're pushing to hit a nerve. There hate for the president is just too much to handle. Its obnoxious, disrespectful, and extremely disturbing. They don't even report the news anymore, they sit around talking to each other about how much they hate Trump, and make stories up about him. I want to know what's happening in the world, not what you think is right or wrong, or your opinions. Give new news, and the truth for once! I just recently changed my party to Republican. I seriously couldn't continue to vote for a party that has obvious ties with the MSM, especially CNN, and feel good about myself as an American. Its actually pretty scary of what I've been witnessing these past 4 years. Very questionable about who is running CNN these days and what they're really up to. Well thanks to CNN, I'll be voting for Donald Trump this election. Although I voted Democrat last time, I am awake now do to CNNs sick obsession with the president and their disrespect of not only him, but the first lady and the rest of the family. Its pitiful.

Date of experience: June 10, 2020
Canada
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Needs to be shutdown fake news, fake news, fake news! Unbelievable how CNN is still alive I literally don't know anyone who watches them anymore!

Date of experience: June 9, 2020
Texas
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Biased
June 7, 2020

Not really a news channel but a gossip show where so called journalists say what they think or feel. I don't consider this NEWS! I'll never watch this channel again - a total waste of my time.

Date of experience: June 7, 2020
Arizona
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Paid off!
June 3, 2020

What happened to Anderson? Why did he sell out? He has a new tilt while pretending to report. What is he doing? How much did it take to buy his life that he sold?

Date of experience: June 3, 2020