CNN: Breaking US & World News 12+

CNN tells the whole story and mainly the story. All sides good or bad. Positive or negative for both major political parties and administrations. All sides of a story. Far right news channels spin in one direction and if that is all you watch you will be given a very skewed view of their far right reality. I watch all the major news channels and listen to XM radio in the car. It is amazing that fox on XM channel 115 “FOX headline News” is actually news but “FOX NEWS” on channel 114 is mostly opinion offered in a format to entertain and persuade right wing viewers. The opinions offered on XM FOX 114 are in one direction only. CNN is a NEWS channel that does interview people involved in the story and when opinions are given most of the time both sides of an opinion are explored. I have learned through my experience of 75 years that when someone has to begin a view by “constantly telling you their view is telling you the truth” you should take that view with a grain of salt and widen your news viewing to make an informed decision for yourself.

Don’t give up on democracy please CNN! You started out so informative and insightful in your Jan 6th committee coverage. The analysis was impressive. You even had a time slot devoted to democracy. That disappeared and now you just seem to be trying to prop up the Republican Party. They created the mess they are in, and you are trying to rescue them while they continue to try to suppress voting rights. This is how democracy dies. Thanks CNN. Moving on to the topic of national security — your clip of Anderson Cooper’s interview with Maggie Haberman left out some of the the most astounding information she provided. The fact that the former guy routinely tried to take top secret documents up to the private residence in the WH and bristled when Kelly (his first chief of staff) tried to stop him. I wonder how successful his next 3 chiefs of staff were at this task or if they even tried to stop him. I gave you 3 stars for the fact that, on occasion, you do point out Republican politician lies. So many lies. The country of George “I cannot tell a lie” Washington and Honest Abe has become a country where lying is big business, and the go-to strategy for getting Republicans elected whether they are Trump candidates or not.

I am so displeased with this latest version of the CNN App! The developers have totally stripped away the control and flexibility the user once had. I used to be able to Go Live, click on Schedule and select a show to watch which had previously aired that day. I LOVED that feature and now it’s gone! If for example I missed the airing of The Situation Room which airs at 2:00 pm PST here in Cali, no worries. I knew that I could watch the full show, in its entirety anytime later that same day. I could click to watch any show that had already aired by Judy clicking on it. Now I can no longer watch a show that I missed...How could the developers remove this important feature?!

This app is now just a ho-hum app. It is boring and does not offer anything meaningful to the user. I used to watch CNN faithfully on the older app version because it meant so much to me. In my opinion it was the BEST news app out there. Now there is no reason for me to use it. Truly disappointing!