Granted, I've had fundamental ideological differences with CNN for many years, but when I'm at the gym every day and it's in my face and closed-captioned I can't help watching it. And boy, is it disgusting or what? What does "CNN" stand for anyway, Commercial News Network?
Not too long ago, the hot "news" they were advertising was that McDonald's was using a trans-fat-free oil to cook their fries. This wound up being a 15-minute advertisement for McDonald's, with the so-called "journalists" gushing about how yummy the fries are and how they could eat them every day and how much they wanted to rush out and buy some. Today they did an item on the new Liberty stamps and again, they were all gushy about how you should go out and buy them in bulk because there's no limit! It was just blatant advertising.
It seems like every day on CNN, all they do is advertisements thinly disguised as "news." When did they start this? A few years ago when I had a TV, I used to watch it sometimes, and they weren't just advertising all the time. They were constantly singing the praises of those poor guerillas fighting to be free of those mean evil Israelis, but they weren't running a bunch of frickin' McDonald's ads and calling it news.
I'm completely fed up and disgusted with the level of advertising in modern society. Seriously, it's repulsive. How do we stop it?


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