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With regards to Mr McLeans comments as below:

You can see Harry get out first, and then you saw Meghan and then the other two royals as well'

How dare he use such a way to describe our royalty. Harry and Meghan are NO longer royals. To describe our future King and Queen, William and Katherine in such a way is hugely disrespectful. He is obviously either ignorant or imposing his own personal feelings. I as one UK 🇬🇧 subject for d this highly offensive.

Mostly your coverage of the Queen's demise has been spectacular. However, I am quite disturbed by the comments from Zain Asher today. The general discussion was around Charles' speech for later in the day. I thought her comments were not really on topic, when she spoke of 'Colonialism' etc., but it was the final statement which was the most offensive. Although not verbatim, she spoke as follows: {The issue must be addressed about how much money the Royal Family has made from slavery.} The other two commentators seemed taken aback by her comments and there was a distinct couple of moments of silence! Today, of all days, with the Queen's passing not even at 24 hours yet, her comments, were not only irrelevant at this sad time, but also were entirely inappropriate for the particular reason for the continual coverage of the Queen's death. It was unnecessary and extremely disrespectful to the late Queen as head of that royal family who supposedly made that money. I turned my set off because I would not listen to such inconsiderate and self-serving diatribe. However, when I tuned back in a little while later, she was still referring to "Colonialism". CNN lost me for the day after that. If there is one thing CNN has done, and continues to do through this whole time, is the 'right thing'. I agree with the 'freedom of the press'{media}, but some of these people who represent you, and whom you expect will uphold your high standards, need to be made aware of voicing, possibly, their own opinions at the at the appointed, and appropriate time.

Your new MAGA direction has ensured that I'll never again watch or read CNN in the future. Defending Republican fascism is not only irresponsible but dangerous. The United States already has a FOX "News" and we don't need another one. You guys have been reviled as "liberal" for so long that thinking you'll attract FOX, OAN or Newsmax viewers is absurd to the point of delusional. Way to flush your reputation guys.

What Biden said the other night was not political, it was true and your clutching at your pearls about the Marines in the background wasn't something you ever griped about when Trump made blatantly political and partisan rally type speeches. I don't remember you whining when Bush Jr. stood on the deck of an aircraft carrier with thousands of Sailors and Marines present. Since you guys have decided to stop being news and start being partisan hacks, you can forget my viewer/readership in the future/

I have been a long-time viewer of CNN because of their views and news personalities, but I will be going elsewhere due to all the recent changes. I know many other family members and friends are doing the same. Please rethink what you have been doing, and make no more changes, except re-hire some of those recently let go. They have the views I want to hear.

Viewing MSNBC more & more except for Jim Acosta, Cooper, Lemon, Blitzer & Berman. After comments from 2 anchors yesterday after President's speech we are done w/CNN. President's speech was exceptional!

Maybe reflects new management?

Ex-POTUS is grifter, crook, person using deflection in daily life as do most narcissists; had practically demolished democracy.

One good thing: coverage of Ukraine, has been excellent but down in quality now.

It is deplorable that so much time is spent with paid promotions re: ads. Four full minutes is spent in commercial. FOUR-MINUTE AD BREAKS completely disinforms the viewer. Surely someone must notice the drop in viewers is entirely due to the long minutes wasted in commercials. I do watch the news several times a day, but to endure repeated 4:00 ad breaks lead me to use a different provider. Shame on CNN for its craven disregard for the viewers' experience. If this is not made more palatible to the views, I will join the ranks of those who abandon CNN.

8/24/22

Dear CNN:

I am writing in regards to a program aired by Dr. Sanjay Gupta about a young man who had Ewing's sarcoma and had his leg amputated to live. I believe this was deliberately aired to cause 95 year old Dr. Azetta Wexler psychological damage due to the fact that she lost a child to what i thought was Ewing's sarcoma only to find out it was a Wilm's tumor. However, i recorded it on her health history as such and spoke of it over the phone believing it was an Ewing's sarcoma. That said, Ernest Wexler's son Joseph Wexler, then 4 years old, had a tumor removed from his neck by Dr. Franklin Ashley of UCLA in 1957. He also completely reconstructed his shoulder. Subsequently, the cancer metastisized and there was a compound fracture of Joseph's tibia. Ernest Wexler was approached about removing Joseph's leg, he replied, "I'll let you remove the boy's leg if you can show me one case where you have done this before and the child lived." They couldn't, he replied, "Then I'm not going to let you cut this boy up in pieces." He later told me, "I would have carried that boy to the moon if i thought it would have saved him." Therefore, it is my contention this program was put on to deliberately make Dr. Azetta Wexler second guess her husband's decision 55 years earlier. They waited until I turned their channel on to air the story because it didn't start at the top or bottom of the hour, but 40 minutes after the hour. This is how I knew it was deliberately for us. This was done at the end of her life.

I would like a settlement.

Sincerely, Samuel Wexler DDS MPH

PS. Photo taken just before illness, he is the middle child.

Sunday's Dana Bash's program on Anti-Semitism, I thought, although well meaning was very superficial. I felt that as a Jew myself, there was not enough in-depth discussion of causes and possible remedies. The interviews with the same 2 or 3 men broken up by far too many commercials were disheartening. A single, sustained interview with the ADL and someone from the commend center, I think, might have had more gravitas. By spreading the show out and the constant commercials made for an uneven, unsatisfying experience. It was almost as if Ms. Bash didn't want to offend anyone but fulfill her assignment. Considering all the publicity, especially from Ms. Bash herself on Friday, I expected much more; maybe longer, more in-depth and certainly fewer interruptions. Good first attempt! Perhaps some follow-up programs i.e. tracking the history of anti-Semitism, causes, consequences and what can and should be done about it. Look at Great Barrington, NJ just this past weekend...

I abhor your decision to cancel “Reliable Sources”. It is short sighted and ill advised, I hope you reconsider. CNN is quickly abandoning it’s place as preeminent TV news broadcaster. Are you asking to lose my viewership?

And DO NOT CANCEL BRIANNA KEILER, she is a shining light

Respectfully,

Ernie Meth

Dear CNN Newcomer "Leadership",

This single longtime viewer, whom no doubt means little to you, has been attempting to reach out to so-called "leadership" at CNN. However CNN has removed all avenues of reaching out with feedback from their website for ex-Pats living in Europe. 

Perhaps the new front office at CNN is not interested in hearing negative feedback to their cancelling of popular, highly-rated programs? Or any feedback at all, since that avenue has been disabled on the website.

The latest less-than-brilliant move is the cancellation of 'Reliable Sources' with Brian Stelter. It seems they gave Stelter plenty of warning and he very well may have found employment at a more deserving network. I will be pointing my interest there at this point.

CNN's new "leadership" is using the excuse of presenting fewer (or no?) "personal opinion" programs. Are these corporate weenies even listening to "Reliable Sources"? While there is certainly a degree of opinion, the majority of the coverage is very much unbiased and Stelter is very adept at balancing both sides to every subject matter.

Since so-called leadership has invoked the subject of "opinion" -- perhaps their opinion (or current knowledge) of what makes CNN work should be brought into question?

I suspect I speak for countless viewers, and potential ex-viewers.

Personally, the few programs I never miss have been Jake Tapper's "State Of The Union", "Smerconish", and Stelter's "Reliable Sources".

These have been exceptionally in-depth examples of true journalism. A rare and welcomed treat at a time when such research and concise coverage is nearly impossible to find on the air, on the 'net, and in the near-extinct newspapers.

My news 'balancing act' comes from daily viewing of Euronews, Al Jazeera, and CNN (in particular the programs I listed above).

CNN's newest Chairman and Chief Executive Officer is Dennis Licht. A relatively young 'network TV' executive who apparently does not realize he is no longer running a network television entity?

His CNN Executive VP, Michael Bass (himself a product of network TV at NBC), is perhaps afraid to step-up as an individual.

This entire scenario begs the question: Are these two bosses attempting to turn CNN into yet another source for 'Big 3 Network' pabulum?

The "leadership" branch at CNN might consider doing something so basic that it possibly escaped their overly-educated programming minds. That would be conducting surveys/polls among its viewership before firing its most valuable intelligent hosts and killing prominent programs. Not to mention throwing their ever-important ratings down the sponsorship toilet.

I do believe I speak for thousands re: this cancellation trend.

- Kevin Lynch

(formerly of Connecticut, USA now living in Netherlands since 2008)

This is the ad that ran today, 8/19/22, between 7:00 a.m. and 7:30 a.m.

I couldn't believe my eyes -- that CNN chose to run a sick, false ad that targeted Merrick Garland. This ad is a LIE -- like the BiG LIE -- Remember that one?

How extraordinarily tone deaf, biased, creepy of you to run this ad.

How much money did you receive to run this ad?

You are off my list of news sources that I can trust.

CNN just sunk to the level of a FOX news or dare I say Breitbart / Newsmax level.

The CNN website should not be aloud to exist, because there is no one to contact and they have no customer service dept. The site looks like a China Propaganda website, you can not speak your mind or even complain about an article... I see now why CNN is considered fake news. Please tell me why this site is able to exist in America, it is so wrong and I would be ashamed to work for this company. Honestly I watched if for an hour the other day and the whole show was about bashing Donald Trump, with no one speaking in the Presidents defense, shame of you CNN...

Watching CNN was actually like watching a BAD Saturday Night Live skit... I know know that anyone watching CNN can get brainwashed because they only bring out the bad without knowing that it is even true.

Example of CNN NEWS

Lets say 2 people get in a fight and they only interview one of the people and they bash the other person and you never here the other side of the story. So sad to watch, I will never watch CNN again... Such A Joke got back to china

I am just a person in the UK. I object to CNN publishing opinion pieces by outright racists like Kehinde Andrews. The guy makes a living and his name by formenting racial hatred. Sorry to disappoint you, but the vast majority of people in England and the United Kingdom were not born when there was slavery, or even when there was a British Empire, and do not dream of a return of either! An even bigger majority are not racist, they are just normal people trying to live decent lives in challenging times.

Why is CNN so determined to increase racial tensions? I see how polarised politics has become in America, I am aghast that so many people can support Donald Trump, but when I see how extreme CNN has become, example publishing people like Kehinde Andrews, I get some insight.

By the way, it is fair to say that it's hard to see how Rishi Sunak could represent many people in the UK, being so rich, but its a problem of British politics, having a ruling elite of rich people, despite democracy. A problem which you are familiar with in the US.

Max foster is involved in terrorist kidnappings commanding illegal assults and tortures with kate windsor ,andrew windsor harry windsor on my genuine royals sons antonio torres in italy and mario torres in spain i have document at lease 10 occasions where max foster has provided false information to police to have my sons harmed by illegal police surrounding my sons in madrid ,italy and me in bangkok kate windsor is a very dangerous sex offending commander kidnapper and theif as is andrew windsor

i demand you investigate these sick animals immediately

I am Canadian/Argentina citizen, I watch CNN favorite channel, happy to watch Patagonia series but sad that mention Chile part of the Patagonia region, wrong! I am really upset about this, please I know is English production with the Chilean narrator but make it right please. Search, compare: Wikipedia: Regions of Argentina vs Chile. Check also history indigenous of the region Patagonia comes from the name of Patagones (argentinian indigenous) means "big foot" , chileneans have mapuches indigenous that are moving into Argentina territories. Patagonia is only a Argentina Region, if you want to talk about wild life of the south call the show something else, do not give wrong information, my sons are watching and I have to clarified for them and show the map.

Babies recommended to have human milk and families should have more support, guidance says

This article on breastfeeding manages to never use the word ‘mother’ or ‘women’ throughout. There is a long section on chest feeding aimed at transgender people, so why this careful avoidance of the word women elsewhere in the article? It seems perverse. Women breastfeed - why insist on ‘parent’ and ‘family’ breastfeeding - I breastfed my two children and it definitely wasn’t a joint effort! Women, mothers, do this work - give them credit for what they do, don’t erase them. This language isn’t inclusive, it’s alienating and insulting and I feel very frightened for women that it is appearing in a big mainstream organisation like CNN. Issues affecting specifically men wouldn’t be couched in this vague, alienating way: it would be ‘fathers’ and ‘men’ - why are women being given this treatment?

I am retired, housebound, and can't stand insipid TV programing so I leave CNN on all day. The constant, petty harping on a "fist bump", Kashoggi's barbaric murder, and Prisident Biden's "pariah" comment is so infuriating compared to global security against rogue nations, the global need for oil, and the horrific situation in Ukraine.

I actually cannot believe that your anchors and correspondents aren't above Fox and their conterparts! It's the media that's responsible for the hatred and division in this country, your station included.

Who the hell is the woman? How unprofessional is it to give her stupid opinion on the abortion sentence some woman got in Florida before Roe v Wade. If she is some kind of right wing zealot, what the hell is she doing on CNN? Shouldn't this ignorant woman be on Fox? She is not old enough to remember that women would use coat hangers and knitting needles on themself before Roe? I know someone that did that. Why don't you let her adopt all the unwanted kids that are not cared for properly. Many of these kids end up committing terrible crimes when they get old enough. I guess if I have to listen to her or any other right wind idiot on CNN, I will stop watching CNN. 6/30/22

The new leadership for CNN has stated he thinks the term "the big lie" is a democratic term. That is ridiculous. It MOST CERTAINLY IS A LIE AS EVIDENCED BY MANY EXAMPLES! As we all should know, but apparently we don't, that particular phrase originated with the Nazis. The white supremists which have hideously permeated our society, absolutely deserve to be called on THEIR BIG LIE. The election was not stolen and we had no fraud, thereby substantiating the fact that ii is a BIG LIE, whether you are a Democrat, Republican, or Independent. Maybe your new leadership is a big liar?

My name is Tracy Williams! I’m from Quincy Illinois. My only child Ashley Williams 36 passed on September 16th under suspicious circumstances. My daughter Ashley lived in government housing, meaning no felons allowed to live on the property. My daughter was not a felon. The man found with her is name is Alvin Palmer a career Felon. He gave her methamphetamine laced with fentanyl and Molly she died within minutes of ingesting it. The problem with this is Alvin was with my daughter while deceased for over an hour in her apartment, while Alvin was cleaning up the drugs. They kicked Alvin off the property that morning.

the detectives still have my daughters phone they took Alvin in for questioning. In this town there Very crooked period. This case needs some outside eyes and expertise on the case.

My daughter Ashley left beside 3 children. My grandson kashious age 6 was sleeping in the apartment when this was going on. I have the death certificate and the Toxicology report and I finally got it out and read it and what I found is unbelievable.

I need outside sources to help me get the message out there and just maybe we can stop this from happening to another family.

My number is [protected] I’m a mother that can’t move forward without some kind of Justice.

Tracy Williams