Failed expectations
Perhaps my timing is simply way off. Maybe it is just my bad luck. But everytime I tune in to CNN these days, it seems it never has anything to show anymore other than the coming US elections. Worse, it seems the only thing it can show about the US elections is everything derogatory to Donald Trump. Trump is not my father. America is not my home. So I don't care how relentlessly CNN bashes the Republican nominee. But doesn't it have something else on its menu?
As one of CNN's millions of worldwide viewers, I would have preferred greater variety in its news programming. There are, after all, so many things happening in the world other than just the US elections that I would have expected to see on CNN. And I would have expected CNN to rise above its own self and treat Trump with a little more even-handed professionalism than the unbridled bias it is in fact unleashing on Trump everyday.
CNN repeatedly claims to be the global news leader. It is a claim that I think has fallen flat on its face. You cannot be the global news leader if you give in to an inordinate desire to show only the US elections almost to the complete exclusion of everything else. You cannot be the global news leader if you cannot accept the fact that you owe it to your global news audience to act professionally and objectively enough to give even a person like Trump at least a fair shake.
CNN will naturally deny my views, but I am sure there are millions like me out there who have similarly detected this determined bid to put down Trump at every opportunity. It appears to me that CNN consciously goes out of its way
‘There was a time when CNN had the credibility to withstand and survive the few disappointments that are normal in any massive global news
operation.’