CNN - A Dear John Letter

To the Movers and Shakers at CNN,

They were gradual... subtle... just below the radar, but the continual small changes proved to be the foundation upon which you based your betrayal.

CNN was, at it's inception, a trusted and credible news source for Americans and the global community as well. That is no longer true. CNN and CNN Headline News have sold out.

We were puzzled at first, then disappointed, and finally angry. Other than watching Lou Dobbs in the afternoon we no longer waste our time ingesting the propagandized pablum that CNN dishes out as valid information.

CNN is no longer on during the day in our home because no one can stand the unpleasant and extremely rude Kyra Phillips. Her interview style fluctuates between open hostility toward anyone who does not march in lock step and fawning adoration toward the members of neoconservative think tanks like PNAC (Project for a New American Century). Kyra Phillips, noted for bias, is not a journalist, she's a mouthpiece for the Bush Administration. It is also unfortunate that her pinched up face and her bitchy, nasty attitude make her most difficult to watch.

The Situation Room starring Wolf Blitzer, is a joke. There he stands, surrounded by bells and whistles, pretending to be some kind of hip newsman while trolling for younger viewers. Wolf Blitzer, hip or not, is no newsman! He's no Cronkite. He's no Murrow. He is a cheerleader for Bush, and is positively giddy about the war in Iraq. Wolf's "overeager puppy" approach to the failing leadership of this country is almost as tragic as was his unbridled superiority and unmasked antagonism toward noted humanitarian, Harry Belafonte, a recent guest in "The Spin Room".

Now it appears as if CNN is approaching a full right wing crescendo. Conservative high-stakes gambling addict and author of "The Book of Virtues", Bill Bennett, is sure to impress global viewers when his narrow, religious rantings are broadcast as "political analysis". Additionally, Representative "Julius Ceasar" Watts has decided to retire from Congress to join CNN's stable of FOX-like conservative commentators.

All this, AND an hour-long show for the man who said about the people who were trapped in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, "Those are the only ones that we're seeing on television - are the scumbags...It's just a small percentage of those who were left in New Orleans, or who decided to stay in New Orleans, and they're getting all the attention". Yes, Glenn Beck will be CNN's visual Rush Limbaugh. Anderson Cooper must appear to be so liberal that the America's own "Propaganda Central" was forced to hire the most belligerant bigot they could find. You know, to balance the programming.

CNN's trendy, propagandized misinformation is insulting to the thinking public both in the states and abroad. It's recent Bush inspired reformation is embarrassing. The new CNN format offers international viewers an ugly close-up of American indifference and hypocrisy. And guess what? The emperor has no clothes.

So we bid you adeiu, CNN.

You've dumbed-down and betrayed us, your faithful news watchers.
CNN isn't news, it's a FOX clone.

...............Kitchen Window Woman and family...........

P.S. Did Bush crony "Heckuva Job" Brownie land Ted Turner's old job?