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30 Minutes On CNN

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Media

How much time is devoted to commercials? Fluff news? Real news?

This entry was posted on Sunday, December 23rd, 2007 and is filed under Media. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

3 Responses to “30 Minutes On CNN”

david Says:
December 23rd, 2007 at 12:22 pm
To be fair, that’s for CNN Headline News, which has always been the fluffier of the two common CNN products.
S.W. Anderson Says:
December 23rd, 2007 at 3:50 pm
I gave up watching CNN Headline News completely when it went to its latest format revamp, which took it completely down the infotainment dumper. IMO, the programming genius brought in to do that revamp should be tied to a chair in a dark, damp, cold subterranean chamber, in front of a TV showing “Golden Girls” and “Designing Women” reruns, until his brain turns to something resembling chicken droppings.

FWIW, it woul be interesting to see a comparision with the major networks’ nightly news programs. I suspect the yield of substantive news is even much lower than for CNN and CNN Headline — which is really appalling.
Edward Says:
December 24th, 2007 at 7:20 am
Or the pinnacle of fluff–morning “news” programs.

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