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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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Kansas
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Gop convention
July 19, 2016

What is wrong with the media. The Gop convention is being aired on tv for us all to listen to and every time I want to hear what a speaker is going to say your announcers break away to add their comments or speak to someone else. I DON'T want to hear what your announcers have to say. I want to hear the speeches of the individuals invited to the convention. This is all so wrong. I absolutely hate the media!

Date of experience: July 18, 2016
Alabama
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Campaign central
July 12, 2016

I do not understand. If they want to commit a channel to talking about politics, why not create one for that. Why do they have to deprive us of the news. There are so many things happening throughout the world that I have to find out through other sources. I don't think they have any idea how many people are turning the channel. I wish the people spending money for their commercial space knew.

Date of experience: July 12, 2016
Georgia
1 review
6 helpful votes
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I was watching this cnn news, I saw don lemon was arguing about when white officer pull over black man and you have to say SIR if you are black man safety reason, in this Don lemon is so wrong he belong to where there is no education like Africa he need to go there live there where he don't have to worry to say SIR, he is dump 5 years old know how to respect elder or officer. He is resist so bad he don't like white people number one fagot. I am Asian I call black man as SIR white man SIR any human respect. I swear to god so dump and you qualify for CNN anchor. He need go learn something from back home wherever his race from.

Date of experience: July 12, 2016
Tennessee
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Biased Journalism
July 10, 2016

This station is biased and not for all Americans. Erin Burnett pretends to care about Black Americans but she doesn't. She only cares about people who thinks the way she does. Once again, real journalism doesn't exist. The same complaints she openly has about Trump, she should ask about Hilary. Totally biased, and at the end of the day could care less about Black Americans.

Date of experience: July 8, 2016
New Jersey
1 review
7 helpful votes
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A joke
June 24, 2016

You have become a joke and don't even try to neutral. You've picked apart parts of speeches and choose to only bring up what bites fit your agenda. I used to respect your company, now it's a joke. A total joke.

Date of experience: June 24, 2016
Maryland
3 reviews
14 helpful votes
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If you were to evaluate the state of the world by CNN reporting, we would all be doomed--and quickly. The focus at CNN is ratings, so they focus on salacious and negative news, with a wrapper of "we care". Nonsense. I watch BBC which is far better at relating news without making the world sound like it is going to h-e-double hockey sticks in a handbasket!

Date of experience: June 21, 2016
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Pennsylvania
1 review
9 helpful votes
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I cannot watch it for more than five minutes at a time -- usually when the station I switched to has a commercial break. It is N O N S T O P Trump bashing! We get it, CNN!

Date of experience: June 16, 2016
Canada
1 review
8 helpful votes
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I have decided to delete my CNN app. CNN is clearly obsessed with Trump and give him too much free coverage. Often you can find 4 or 5 stories in a row about Trump and his ignorant rants. It made me depressed to read the "news" on this site as 30% or more of its content is devoted to Trump and his negative views. I would like to encourage everybody to stop reading CNN. There are much more news Out there that are produced by real journalists.

Date of experience: June 2, 2016
Washington
2 reviews
32 helpful votes
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I wish zero stars was a voting option. I stopped watching CNN for up to date news coverage. How many discussions are they going to devote to the presidential election where the panelists are simply repeating themselves and giving predictions? I am tired of predictions; we need news! The least they could do is try to educate the viewers about the influence that the next president and new congress will have on the Supreme Court. Why aren't they talking about the races in congress? That's where this election really matters.
News should be informative, not repetitive.

Date of experience: May 18, 2016
Washington
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Ben Jones
May 18, 2016

Who is that guy Ben Jones he always makes the debate very boring where did cnn get this Jones guy from

Date of experience: May 17, 2016
Indiana
3 reviews
4 helpful votes
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Trump
May 13, 2016

I turn on CNN and all I hear about is Trump. I have now started watching MSNBC where I can hear news about all candidates and all news of the world, not 24 hr news cover of Trump.

Date of experience: May 13, 2016
New Jersey
1 review
5 helpful votes
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I have waited for an hour to hear the news on the DC shootings today and when they finally got around to it it lasted less than 10 minutes then immediately returned to Donald Trump. He is not the only interest of the american people. No wonder he doesn't have to pay for airtime. CNN gives him all he needs.

Date of experience: May 6, 2016
New Jersey
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Slanted and subjective news reporting. Similar to Pravda.
Loves to overstate issues and attract viewers with overplay of tragedies.

Date of experience: May 4, 2016
Ohio
2 reviews
9 helpful votes
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HA HA HA HAAAAAAAAAA, you were so wrong re election. You tried your best to demoralize and defeat Trump. But you guys got it wrong even when you and other media etc. tried so hard. Ha HA. Can't wait for you guys to fade into the pit of nothingness, because you are so irrelevant. BOYCOTT THE SPONSORS.

Date of experience: May 2, 2016
Minnesota
1 review
3 helpful votes
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CNN|Review| Stop over the interviews

Please Stop Conducting & Airing these easy Over the Phone Interviews with Presidential Candidates.

Don't give them Any Free Tv Publicity if they can't come into the studios.

Let them come live on air & (in person) If they want serve this great nation and if they want to take advantage of the free publicity your affording them, -& ask them tough leadership questions...

Date of experience: May 2, 2016
New York
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Biased news
April 7, 2016

Cnn is extremely biased. Just the faces of the reporters tells it all. Their attitudes absolutely in plain words suck. Good for Dr Carson to tell it like it is today, April 7. Seriously, change your tatics.

Date of experience: April 7, 2016
North Dakota
1 review
8 helpful votes
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Toilet
March 31, 2016

Your news channel does not report the true news anymore: It is all just misinformation, and twisted opinions of what really didn't happen, or didn't happen that way. It would be way better if you would go back to a "Walter Cronkite" style and report actual facts, and let the viewers make their own opinions. It is so disappointing to watch all of you twist the truth, until it is no longer the truth; just another twisted opinion. It is so sad you have taken a GREAT MAN, Donald Trump, and have "smeared" him day after day, until, even YOU don't know the real truth. You are no longer a trusted news channel, but a twisted truth channel. Many of the people you have on panels, are so young, they are still sucking their thumbs, and really have not even developed common sense. You and FOX news are both in the same toilet now, and you need to be flushed. (Except Hannity and "The Judge")

Date of experience: March 30, 2016
Washington
1 review
7 helpful votes
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You are sooooo not neural in your coverage or your reviews. How can you properly present the facts when your views have not only been already decided but sway towards one candidate over another? The media has become a joke in this campaign, not Trump. It's obvious to me that every single government agency is scared because the rampant misuse would be revealed. Now, why our elected officials would want that to continue is beyond me.

I will vote for Trump because I'm tired of the same ole bull$#*! we've put up with for years. How Obama got re-elected is beyond me. Nobody I talked to wanted him back.

Keep telling the people like it is Donald. It's about time the American people hear the REAL truth!

Date of experience: March 30, 2016
Mississippi
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Hate
March 27, 2016

Should drop cnn from all media outlets and begin internet news because the people you have on are unfair biased and outrageous my age group hates all news on tv except local.

Date of experience: March 27, 2016
New Jersey
1 review
7 helpful votes
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How about changing the topic from Trump. Your reporters got Your opinion across. Hillary will be president. On with the failing economy, lies, Wall Street payoffs, immigration problems and yes Bill Clinton the adulteter in White House. You make me want to vote for Trump.

Date of experience: March 24, 2016