"And now here's Honey Boo Boo, our Pakistan correspondent..."

The funny thing is that the article is on the NY Post.

Pretty much going to drop the same comment in here that I just left in TFA but hey:

Well, TLC no longer stands for The Learning Channel, A&E used to give us Arts & Entertainment and the History Channel at least would give us old reels of WWII to watch. Now its about Cake Bosses, prostitots, Ice Road Truckers, and human clown cars. So why WOULDN'T Cable News Network abandon the news?

LessO2: At the risk of sounding like a curmudgeon, the heart of CNN went away when people like Bernard Shaw and Judy Woodruff left.

And Wolf Blitzer has the worst diction in the world.

Fareed Zakaria was the best thing on CNN, but now his cred is in doubt.

I was just talking about Bernard Shaw in another thread, recently. THat was a dude who just looked you in the face and gave you some sober, dispassionate facts. You know, news.

Every so often I'll tune in to CNN. Jesus, it's just awful. Not as evil and abrasive as Fox, but equally worthless.
I grew up with CNN and miss it terribly. Of course, as others have pointed out, I used to love the History Channel, Discovery, TLC, et al. Look, we're getting the entertainment we deserve. These execs know that a return to straight news would result in even worse ratings than they currently have. That's on us.



"Everyone ready? 'Cos it's about to rain cold hard facts up in here."

What's hilarious is that after the AOL/Time Warner thing happened and then unwound, you can tell which group took on the AOL people... CNN.

The same garbage those AOL clowns did at AOL, they thought would be good ideas at CNN. Basically, CNN has become the news equivalent of the AOL homepage.