Don't start me on Desert Storm, and what CNN did to brainwash the public.
I can cite papers published by the Army War College, yes there is such a thing, with names like "Winning CNN Wars." From Desert Storm on, cable nooz was considered a force multiplier.
And saying so, at the time, cost you your social life. Or did I know the wrong people?
CNN's been on my shit list ever since. I used to grudgingly turn it on for huge breaking stories, especially the ones with fires and tear gas and cops and protesters and such, but since the 2016 cultural meltdown I haven't seen a frame of it. FOX was already on the block list. MSNBC was OK, then not, than sort of (in prime time), but we'll see how long that lasts.
Entertainment TV? Don't have the time for it. It's ball games (in the background while I do something more productive) and F1 races, for which everything comes to a halt. But they're short.
I didn't have CNN back then. That didn't stop the New York Times from being pretty much the same. I still haven't forgiven them for that.
As of a month ago, during that Syria flap and our idiotic 59 cruise missile attack, they impressed me that they still haven't changed. They've never met a war they didn't love to promote.