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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
13 helpful votes
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Stick to the Facts
October 13, 2016

I remember watching this network when Bernard Shaw was covering the bombing in Baghdad and having clear incisive journalism that was fact driven.

Sadly, modern CNN is nothing but. It has become a mouthpiece for the DNC, twisting facts and manipulating statistics to advance an agenda, and I can't watch it anymore. Bring back the old news network please.

Date of experience: October 13, 2016
New York
1 review
9 helpful votes
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Absolute Garbage
October 13, 2016

I can't believe I'm forced to even give this media outlet one star. They are pathetic and completely biased against the truth. They are not journalists but propagandists.

Date of experience: October 13, 2016
Colorado
1 review
9 helpful votes
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I always knew that journalists had a little bias. That is not what CNN is. They will literally ignore the biggest breaking stories of the day in order to lie to your face instead. Yes, it is that bad. They are, without hyperbole or irony, propaganda.

Date of experience: October 13, 2016
Massachusetts
1 review
8 helpful votes
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By far the worst.
October 13, 2016

The mainstream media, as a whole, is on a rapid decline. However, CNN, is the absolute worse when it comes to bias. Avoid at all costs.

Date of experience: October 13, 2016
Florida
2 reviews
23 helpful votes
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They are so unbelievably biased, especially during this whole election. They focus over 90% of their time bashing Trump over meaningless things, all the while, Hillary has committed actual crimes, and it's glossed over by them. Worse than that actually, they flat out defend her and cover her stories up intentionally. They're total crap. I can't believe I now trust Breitbart and Fox over them.

Date of experience: October 13, 2016
Arizona
1 review
9 helpful votes
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Blatantly obvious bias.
October 13, 2016

It is unethical, uneducated, unproductive, and entirely biased programming. This is not news, it is a newsroom drama based on current events. Please turn this off for good.

Date of experience: October 13, 2016
Washington
1 review
8 helpful votes
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The nickname C(linton) N(ews) N(etwork) certainly fits. Jake Tapper is a disgrace to journalism; has been found colluding with and donating to Hillary Clinton campaign. Many anchors there clearly biased, don't even try to report both sides of election. Done with CNN forever.

Date of experience: October 13, 2016
South Carolina
1 review
7 helpful votes
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I remember a day when journalism used to be revered. Now it has turned into a political weapon. One of which our founding fathers feared. CNN has been showing exactly what is wrong with our country and is going to be used in history to show am example.

Date of experience: October 13, 2016
Washington
1 review
5 helpful votes
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It's fine to be biased, everyone is. However, it's not fine to pass oneself off as an impartial arbiter, when one clearly is not. That's lying and nobody likes liars.

Date of experience: October 13, 2016
Louisiana
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Completely biased
October 13, 2016

CNN journalism is dead. Replaced by garbage propaganda, it can no longer be trusted.

Date of experience: October 13, 2016
Massachusetts
1 review
6 helpful votes
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What happened?
October 13, 2016

I used to solely watch CNN as my source of news. I would put it on whenever I was home and it would fill the background of my house with the days top news. Now CNN has become too biased and one-sided with it's broadcasts. It feels like I am watching propaganda at levels I associate with dictatorships and communism. It is disgusting to see journalism turn away from reporting on the important issues and instead start pushing an agenda.

Date of experience: October 13, 2016
New Jersey
1 review
5 helpful votes
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CNN is so different then when Obama ran, I used to watch it and it had a tiny iota of objectivity but now it's just a propaganda arm of the Democratic Party. Never watching again.

Date of experience: October 13, 2016
Pennsylvania
1 review
5 helpful votes
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This website is a joke. I honestly cannot believe people watch this.

Date of experience: October 13, 2016
Arizona
1 review
7 helpful votes
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This isn't news
October 13, 2016

Not a single person working for this company is qualified to be distributing information to the public. CNN is the definition of Nazi Level propaganda.

Date of experience: October 13, 2016
New York
1 review
7 helpful votes
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Ignorance is Strength
October 13, 2016

Today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created, for the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideologywhere each worker may bloom, secure from the pests purveying contradictory truths. Our Unification of Thoughts is more powerful a weapon than any fleet or army on earth. We are one people, with one will, one resolve, one cause. Our enemies shall talk themselves to death, and we will bury them with their own confusion. We shall prevail!

Date of experience: October 13, 2016
California
1 review
8 helpful votes
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I grew up in Iran. Spent 26 years of my life witnessing the spread of propaganda and I can smell it from 10 miles away.

A lot of "journalism" that CNN is doing today reminds me of the Islamic Republic Network. It's by no means an exaggeration. The agenda is the same. Narrate something compatible with the culture of the public, slowly change it to a false statement, and repeat it over and over again until it becomes a reality for the people watching. I should say that it is indeed very effective.

There is not much that can be done here. Propaganda always wins. CNN will win and reach their goal. Unless of course people are smart and vigilant. I have lost my hope in the majority of the American society a long time ago, so I wouldn't count on that. I hope I'm wrong about people.

Date of experience: October 13, 2016
Brazil
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Way worse than Fox in the GW administration... The Clinton Narrative Network cares nothing for objectivity, impartiality and journalistic ethics. CNN has played an enormous role in eroding public trust in the press. They should be ashamed of themselves.

Date of experience: October 13, 2016
New York
2 reviews
14 helpful votes
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Does not even try to hide their political bias against Donald Trump. They choose their stories and headlines based on their bias, not on newsworthiness. They lie and take quotes out of context. 100% propaganda.

Date of experience: October 13, 2016
Canada
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Not trustworthy at all
October 13, 2016

Very biased, one sided facts. Every time I watch I ended up googling for what actually occurred... Waste of time to watch

Date of experience: October 13, 2016
Florida
1 review
8 helpful votes
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Where to begin...
October 13, 2016

CNN is the most biased "news" organization currently on air (and that's saying something). At first I thought they were all just playfully ignorant, but between Wolf Blitzer and Don Lemon there isn't an ounce of integrity or honesty within that corporation. They intentionally distort information to fit a framework of how they think the public should feel. Election 2016 will go down in history as the death of investigative journalism and the rise of state media.

Date of experience: October 13, 2016