Spooooooooooky.

that in a country with three full-time news channels, you had to turn on Headline News to get any actual news. The rest were filled with commentary and fluff.

Now even Headline News, which seemed to have been created precisely to apologize for all the fluff CNN was doing, has gone the same route. Sad.

No wonder I never get my news from TV anymore.

for their special programs.

They went down into Jena, LA for example and talked to folks on both sides of the racial divide, asking uncomfortable questions.

They also did a segment on America's horrific hidden history of lynching.

They have a number of diamonds in the rough, including commentators of color.

Why not just NOT click on any link that takes you to CNN?  That seems a lot simpler.

Or better yet, be a part of voting in their polls that are so atrocious, your vote can help to show them how wrong they are.

while I agree that CNN is one of the leading causes of stupidity in America--directly behind lead paint and Faux News, simply turning them off for yourself won't do what's necessary --turn of teh stupid for millions of other Americans.

I would therefore suggest one of the following actions, in descending order of extremity:

1. Kidnap CNN CEO and extract promises of more balanced news coverage or we cut off his fucking head!

pro--it's fast and feels really good to be doing something bad to such an utter asshole.

con--we'd go to jail for a kazillion years and the left would lose a century worth of progress

2. Boycott CNN.

pro -Nice and patriotic, singing kumbayah as we turn off our television sets

con - probably has little or no practical effect on the rest of the country.

3. start our own news network--something like Media Matters, BBC, dKos  and TPM combined but with more visuals. Not Faux News Left, but a thinking man's network.

pro- easy sell to anyone with more than three brain cells to rub together.

con-people with more than three brain cells won't be enough.

How could you look at CNN if you were  Turner? What was such an important source for news, real news, has turned into Fox Jr.

Yea I remember that poll. They would have never done that to Hillery.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/...

fucking idiot, because that would be degrading to all the true blue fucking idiots out there.

Goldberg is a pathetic intellectually dishonest self-promoting narcisist who has no internal moral compass.  Stewart did kick his ass, and rightfully so.  

Jon used that little "fascist" Goldberg like a punching bag.

The look on Goldberg's face was priceless...

I'll never forgive Goldberg for pushing this damn clusterfuck of a war and then admiting that he himself, who is of age, was not willing to sign up for it himself.
This is what they should put on that little pricks headstone when he dies.

"Here lays a CHICKENHAWK"
         R I P
     Jonah Goldberg

I'm easy to please...i'd be happy if air america were to retrieve Seder from his Sunday Siberia gig, and return him to weekdays.  It was a joy to listen to him when he filled in for Randi Rhodes the last week of February.  

if I remember correctly. He changed into a sometimes-reasonable guy (though he's still pretty extremely anti-immigrant). It really surprised me how often he's gotten quoted by lefties.

Weird that the only way to get an anti-establishment guy on the news is to hire a pro-establishment guy and hope he turns reasonable before his contract expires.