CNN will soon be controlled by David Ellison. If democracy is to survive, a vibrant independent media ecosystem is critical.

My ask: cancel your Paramount/Warner subscriptions and sign up for as many pro-democracy outlets as you are able.

You can start with Democracy Docket: bit.ly/4qmEiFz

February 27, 2026 - 21:18 UTC

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Good thing I've never subscribed to them.
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Mines been canceled for a while now.
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Yeah, CNN is fucked. It's too bad.
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Never had Paramount, nor Warner subscriptions.

Too busy trying to buy essential staples and afford medical help, when needed.

Thanks for the recommendation though.
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Great news: “By early fall, MS NOW will launch a direct-to-consumer subscription product aimed at people who don’t have a pay-TV package”
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I’m not paying s penny to these fucking Nazis or watching any pf their garbage TV. Bye
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Already done good sir!
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You mean cnn will be controlled by Israel
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Long gone…along with Hulu, HBO Max, Prime Video, Disney, Xfinity…

Whew. Still have Netflix
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For now.
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It's not a done deal. The corrupt anti-press feds may not take antitrust seriously, but it seems the California AG does.
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The really messed up part is he’s vindictive enough to just mess stuff up for the hell of it. And he can’t be easily gotten rid of. Even if at some point he decided to sell, only another billionaire egomaniac could afford the price tag.
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Yes! Yes! Yes!
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States can sue to stop the merger. DOJ won't sue because Trump love Ellison.
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bsky.app/profile/news-flows-uk.bsky.social/post/3mhgjcod2un2z
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I’ve cancelled so much in the last year or so. I’m down to peacock, prime and HBO. Y’all don’t tell me that those have to go too.
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Divert that money given to the streamers and give it to a good VPN service...
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Prime should be your next move.
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I've been supporting Democracy Docket for a very long time now and I agree with you...
We need to support our freedom fighters everywhere we can!

We can defeat trump&co!
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bsky.app/profile/ddayen.bsky.social/post/3mfsnmsi32324
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I don’t watch CNN anyway
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Cancelled
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And subscribe to @pbsnews.org become a monthly supporter and get @pbs.org passport
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✅💯💯💯✅
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Don't forget to boycott everything under Ellison's control:

Paramount+ / Showtime @paramountpictures.bsky.social
CBS @cbsnews.com
MTV / Nickelodeon / BET / Discovery+
Comedy Central @thedailyshow.com
Max (formerly HBO Max) @hbo.bsky.social
CNN @cnn.com
DC Comics / DC Studios @jamesgunn.bsky.social
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TV and Movie Franchises that need to be boycotted:

DC Universe: Batman / Superman / Wonder Woman / Peacemaker
Harry Potter
Lord of the Rings / Hobbit
The Conjuring Universe
Star Trek
Transformers
Southpark @southparkstudios.bsky.social
Yellowstone
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CNN changed a long time ago! Still not talking about the ‘hard stuff’! Not telling the truth!
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Done!
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Between Google, Meta, Amazon, and Ellison—they already have the data to control us and make life impossible. We’re already living in their total surveillance empire. FUCK
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The American 4th Estate Bent the Knee.
🇮🇪🇪🇺
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Completely removed. Done!
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Never had one to begin with.
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Do ppl watch cnn?
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I’m boycotting the lot & going back to watching TV and reading (books)
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YES!! Agreed!
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I cancelled paramount over a year ago. I only pay for starz and I get Netflix free. 99% of the time I’m watching independent media. None of my news comes from MSM.
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Signed up today as a paid subscriber. Already canceled Paramount. Don’t watch CNN. Stopped watching CBS Mornings. Cancel HBO next.
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Done ✅
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Canceled it 2 months ago. Ellison and Paramount are a clear and present danger to democracy! Once we lose it, we’re done.
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Done! Paramount sucks anyway. Will ditch netflix if I must 😡
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Paramount is worthless to me anyway - incompetence in programming - as much of the streaming media has become. It's like they flipped the system breaker on and just abandoned their jobs. But there are lots and LOTS of ads, and by god we're gonna make you watch them ... and pay a premium.
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Now HBO needs to be cancelled too. Hopefully the deal will fail due to anti-trust?
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Absolutely will.
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Can't unsubscribe since I never subscribed in the first place. If you need to subscribe to something, subscribe to your local PBS station.
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I plan to tonight when I get home I’m at work. I read about it earlier and I truthfully don’t even watch anything on there, but I definitely don’t wanna pay for it. I don’t need any more State run TV.💙
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If I could isolate their donors (NCIS,etc) from the rest, I would have done that years ago. I can't stand their pro-Trump take on virtually everything
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Already done!
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Running out of things to cancel. I canceled Paramount+ and Prime. Don’t shop on Amazon at all. Also don’t shop at Home Depot. I stopped watching CNN long ago so no big. I ported my company off Oracle years ago. I was booted from twitter. I canceled WaPo. I stopped watching CBS anything. What else?
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You are a better man than I.
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I used to like Earth one; even with its imperfections. I am ashamed and frightened here on Earth two.
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Already done, Sir.
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Already have
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Just signed up.
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Not only that but call your attorney general’s of your States. They can sue for antitrust. These companies and particularly news companies are entirely too big for one person to own.
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Sucks but agree, the "American Gobbels" empire controls over half the media/news market
No thanks. Time to start watching Australia Amazing race on You Tube...wait who's You Tube....BIG Brother is here.
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@thomhartmann.skystack.xyz
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CNN was never vibrant or independent.
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The only upside to recent media company events. #Netflix didn’t get the Paramount deal because they refused to bend a knee to Trump over objections to their content?

They can never say out loud if this is what happened. Keep giving us a wide range of perspectives and life stories. Thank you!
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Let’s get a cooperative media organization going people!
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If I had a subscription to Paramount/Warner, I'd cancel it. I'm already subscribed to Democracy Docket.

I'm independent, and not good at talking with lots of people in person. So you probably won't see me joining phone banks. But I can and will write, and i support your work 100%. Thank you!
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Amen
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I miss Star Trek
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I canceled Paramount Plus months ago to support Stephen Colbert.
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Can’t cancel it if you never bought their BS to begin with! 😂
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I have already done that. So Bye-Bye HBO Max and useless Paramount+!
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Done! Good advice!
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Just don't watch...
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Giving to NPR/PBS is a great way to counter this Regime. They are so threatened by their reporting that they completely defunded them, because they were "propaganda." I tell ya, if Republicans aren't projecting they aren't saying anything.
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Will Democracy Docket be showing the UEFA Champions League?
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at this point you pretty much have to cancel everything.
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Hopefully, state AG's will pursue Anti-Trust proceedings!
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My fantasy is that the anchors on CNN go all out and call out Trump for everything wrong before they shut it all down. Yes fantasy.
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Congress should pass a law banning any company from federal contracts if one shareholder owns 20%+ of BOTH the company AND a media outlet. No more big investors controlling media + government money at the same time.
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Cancelled mine during the last fiasco
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Easily my favorite subscription.
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I do and paramount is going to be so debt laden they may have to sell some of the assets- CNN being one
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JUST IN!
Warner Brothers will now be known as MAGA Brothers…
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Tennessee Brando
Ihip
Luke Beasley
Keith Edwards
Midastouch
David Packman
Adam M
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Ditched Paramount months ago- starting to build my ecosystem every month. You were last month; Robert Reich & Allison Gill budgeted for March.
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Or better yet, collect physical media by purchasing old school Paramount and WB DVDs, VHS and blu ray.
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CNN’s boss caved after the election when he fired all their good journalists.
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As long as people keep sending Paramount and Amazon money, they don’t care what you think. To paraphrase Trump “I don’t care about you, I just want your money.”
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How much did Trump interfere with the sale? What threats did he make? What incentives did he offer?

This is a glaring authoritarian move. There is no benefit to the common man, whatever anyone thinks.
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This is bad...but...
CNN's audience has been in rapid / deep decline for years
MS Now is still a viable alternative
Hoping there could be an effort to leverage the top podcasting voices to set up a new viable network that would be attractive to advertisers, audiences, etc. as a counter to Ellison
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CABLE IS DEAD
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No more corporate news at all!!!!
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I lived without TV before for 10 years. Easy peasy.
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I don't have any Paramount/Warner and subscribe happily to Democracy Docket...
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Do liberals not have billionaires that can and or willing to buy media outlets?
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Apparently not, or they'd be doing it by now.
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What? Remember, George Soros secretly owns and runs everything in the universe + pays us all to protest.

I've been told this by many respected scholars, like Candace Owens and Lauren Boebert.
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Yes.

However, in order to buy a media outlet, someone must be willing to sell it to you.
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guys, quick, do something that won’t make a difference
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Loyal DD paid subscriber here! Come on folks 👏 let’s support the incredible work Marc and his team are doing. We need it now more than ever!!
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We need an umbrella company...
Fourth Estate Tv
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Comprised of vetted Independent Journalists.
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Help with payments
Protection of each other
Legal Power
Etc
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Also We need a Boycott App...
And
A Worker's Union App
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Gracias
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Agreed. I feel like pbs could be the start of we all pay $5 a month to subscribe
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Fight back!
resistandunsubscribe.com
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I can and I will and I get a reimbursement every month for the charges. Enough is enough, these mergers do not benefit Americans or at least "most" Americans. Airlines, hotels, electric companies, telephone, gas, grocery markets, automakers, social media, etc., MERGERS DO NOT WORK FOR CONSUMERS!!!!!
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yesterday I cancelled my annual Paramount+ subscription (it would have been $139.99 a year...)
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Jokes on them, there’s at least 2 to 3 generations of people who really aren’t gonna pay attention to CNN anymore if they are already
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I've only ever watched CNN in airports and hotels when there's nothing else. No more!!
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I frequently watch CNN and will continue to do so up until the deal gets finalized. Then I'm done. I hope that Ellison finds that he's made a bad investment and loses billions.
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The last time I really paid attention to CNN was during the mid-nineties.

No reason other than I found them to be tiresome, repetitive and I could read news on the internet in a very crude fashion, if need be.
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I signed up a few weeks ago. Not looking back. Onward ho!
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Done!
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Good advice!
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Done.
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Cancel Paramount!
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🦋Already have. Stopped watching any news outlet months ago. Just rely on you, MT, KB, and other PC for news. I'm good with that...
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If you haven’t already. Somebody better snatch up Harry Enten….. 😔☹️💔
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Proud member
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No one watches CNN anymore
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I’m already signed up for you, but I can’t cancel paramount…my DH forgot to cancel and they renewed us for the damn year! I tried cancelling, but there is no way to get money back or scramble it. It has been cancelled for 2027…🙄🤦🏼‍♀️
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Cancelling even after renewal typically sends a signal in the forecast for long term subscribers. I accidentally let my ChatGPT renew, cancelled, now no longer on their forecasts. Fuck these people.
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I have been signed up... Got my husband and daughter… this is a must for Democracy to survive
DO IT NOW AND GET OTHERS TO SIGN WITH YOU
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BOYCOTTS WORK
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I already did a long time ago!
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Already cancelled. Fuck them.
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Thank you, you are a hero!
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Giving up HBO sure will be tough
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I did that back when CBS killed the 60 minutes segment on CECOT. HBO will be next.
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Mass media has always been controlled by capital. Folks are waking up and the oligarchs are panicking because the old tricks are ineffective.
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#postjournalism
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So other than PBS news, BBC and NPR is MS Now one of the last of the news outlets that’s reliable?
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We have canceled Paramount. We are trying never to use Amazon but we are not 100% there yet. Spotify is long gone for us. Home Depot is never going to get our business again.
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Sometimes it's very difficult to completely sever ties with Amazon in one swoop. Good on you everything you've done.
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I’m trying to seriously limit Amazon; only for a few things I can’t find elsewhere like parts for roomba - filters for air purifier. Home Depot sadly has better bird food but nothing else. Shop local!
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No Amazon is possible!
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Started last year. PARAMOUNT cancelled, stoped watching CNN, boycotting Target, just to name a few.
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I definitely will be doing that. For sure!!!!
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State sanctioned media. Phuck cnn
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World Press Freedom Index 2025: US ranked 57th.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Press_Freedom_Index?wprov=sfla1
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Sorry to burst your bubble. CNN is not vibrant or independent. It is a mouthpiece for the Dems.
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I don't need to watch the need to know what's going on and have the common sense to see where we are headed. And I have been saying for years quit buying stuff!!!!!!
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We keep removing channels off our TV as we don't want to pay for stupidity and ignorance.
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A vibrant independent media ecosystem died a long time ago.
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We the people have the power.
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So who is doing the New Year’s Eve show?

Anderson Cooper where are you going?
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Just read he signed with cnn.
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Who the hell ever thought we’d miss Ted Turner?
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News outlets should be government funded (without ability to withhold funding to influence stories) and civilian run.

Billionaires shouldn't have any say in the news.
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I now depend on
@meiastouchmedia
@AdamMockler
On YouTube and other independent sources
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The sad truth is we can no longer trust American media for truth but it opens opportunities for foreign companies like BBC or new media like Meidas. Billionaires are celebrating now but there’s a glut of right wing media already and broadcast/cable isn’t the way most get their news these days.
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CNN Conservative News Network. Oh wait, what will Faux News become?
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I’m trying to hold on till Colbert is over, then the plan was to cancel paramount + anyways..their app SUCKS, it’s too slow, their algorithm is stupid and it runs about like my old fatback desktop on dial-up (yes, I know I’m old..lol)
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Cancelled HBO/HBO Max..
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Boycott anything owned by Ellison. Boycotts work if enough people participate.
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I would unsubscribe, if I was subscribed to begin with.
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Goodbye, CNN.

Damn shame.
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Can't anyone stop it with Anti Trust, monopoly laws??
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@groundnews.bsky.social
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CNN, CBS channels will be blocked on my remote. We can’t stream and only have Direct TV.
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Did that as soon as CBS was bought. There are too many other resources to get unscripted news, and information.
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They’ll be another fox.
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Scott Jennings was a trump paid plant all along, that tanked their numbers so somebody.. any tom dick or harry could swoop in a buy it up.
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My Enemy’s Friend is my Enemy.
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All American followers should listen to @lbc ‘s @mrjamesob.bsky.social and @nickabbot.bsky.social
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And Simon marks
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'Meidas touch' is awesome
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Does Bari get to run both?
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Good advice.

It's getting harder to find options.
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One entity owning both CBS and CNN? This is what FCC should cancel, not Colbert.
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Damn right!
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Yes, moving the dialogue to center-left to center-right from far left is certainly a sign of a failing democracy. Grow up folks.
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LOL, CNN stopped their independence a long time ago with they jumped on the "tRump train". I hope they all get fired on day one starting with Fake Tapper.
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Boycott companies that support CNN.
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Done. New PBS member and formerly a Paramount, Prime and Netflix subscriber. I've deleted their apps, too.
Hollywood actors need to stop working with them, too.
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CNN has been pro Trump for 10 years.
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When Scott Jennings is on your screen, you know your IQ is going to drop by 10 points in the next 10 seconds.
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We used to have laws against buying too much power in the media.
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I never watch CNN anymore. I consider it as junk news☠️☠️☠️
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That's the plan, Marc!
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I'd pay to see him in the ring with Jane (Turner wife) Fonda. Maybe in more of her prime, not much.
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And; Boycott Paramount, and CNN! And their advertisers.
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The crucial reason why freedom of the press must survive now solely by the sheer will of our people.
With all of its faults—and, yes, there were far too many—the U.S. Constitution was not created by the framers to force us into complacency.
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I cancelled Paramount two months ago.
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Done, sir.
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Done and done 👍
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With my provider in Canada CNN is an add on. I can just cancel my paid subscription to CNN . Will miss all reporters, hope to see them elsewhere.
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I'm going to cancel Paramount+ the day after Colbert's final episode.
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Just tune out of bullshit news. The obvious slant will be obvious to detect.
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Mark, we need a collaboration of independent media. Few can afford multiple subscriptions, the first collaborative access where one subscription will provide a plurality of insights, that will be compensated through the collective membership. William Manning saw the need in 1790, the tech is here.
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I really want to watch "Mobland" when it returns. Then I'll cancel. 🤓
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DONE AND DONE!
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At least Jake Tapper will finally feel at home.
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And scott jennions
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Done & Done
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No matter what a person thinks their political views are, if they watch or read big media they are willingly contributing to the fascist destruction of America
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My guy, I cancelled Hulu and paramount last year after the foolishness. Some things don’t need to be asked.
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Already did that. Also META and that dunderhead Musk's X.

Looking for alternatives to Amazon, but that is tough because so many small Canadian producers have to use their distribution network to survive.
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A woman in America listen to LBC UK with James o'brien and Simon marks but up to you what network you chose
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Canceling today
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I don't seek news from CNN or any streaming service.
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Spend your $ on independent sites and just pirate the shit out of the content you like. It's all out there.
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Canceled Paramount last night. Already subscribed to Democracy Docket 👍🏾
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I gave up Cable 2 years ago ( Boycott on my own) now it’s a digital antenna-works for me! There’s always Utube also!
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We have control who gets our $$
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And HBO
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