Cable News Criticism

The cluster focuses on skepticism and criticism of TV and cable news channels like CNN and MSNBC for prioritizing entertainment, bias, and ratings over factual reporting, with many users advocating to stop watching or switch to alternatives like business news.

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Sample Comments

minusSeven Feb 24, 2022 View on HN

One thing I can suggest is to switch to business news instead. Business news is more inclined to give all the facts rather than give an opinion on things. Also looking at things from a business perspective is usually much more neutral and you learn a lot more. Regardless of this you shouldn't be consuming news on TV anyway.This article isn't new though. Similar articles have been posted in HN since 2010s.

ssijak May 19, 2018 View on HN

Just look at your news channels...

tester34 Jun 8, 2021 View on HN

but what's the point of watching news? why bother?

mikorym Mar 2, 2020 View on HN

I thought this was about the news channel.

tjoff Jun 12, 2018 View on HN

How is nightly news critical? Worst case, watch it 20 minutes later instead?

Vladimof May 8, 2022 View on HN

they do that in tv news too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGIYU2Xznb4&t=0m29s (they do that on both sides of the aisle, btw)

koakuma-chan Dec 22, 2025 View on HN

Yeah people should stop watching the "news" it's on the same level as tiktok.

Spooky23 Dec 21, 2017 View on HN

Cable news has an exaggerated influence. Nobody watches that crap. The real action happens in other mediums.

some_random Nov 7, 2023 View on HN

That sounds like an issue with the evening news to me.

espeed Sep 17, 2019 View on HN

Watch the news and solve problems they can't seem to solve.