Cable News Network (CNN) began in 1980 as the first all-news television channel. Some critics of CNN have claimed that the network promotes global corporations and the “New World Order.” The CNN nickname “Corporate News Network” has been cited in print since at least 1999.
 
CNN has also been nicknamed the “Chicken Noodle News” (cited in print since 1981), the “Communist News Network” (cited in print since 1991), the “Clinton News Network” (cited in print since 1992), “Certainly Not News” (cited in print since 1993), the “Cabal News Network” (cited in print since 1996), the “CIA News Network” (cited in print since 1997), the “Clown News Network” (cited in print since 1998), the “Criminal News Network” (cited in print since 1998), the “Counterfeit News Network” (cited in print since 1999), the “Cartoon News Network” (cited in print since 2000), the “Crescent News Network” (cited in print since 2002), “Crap Not News” (cited in print since 2007), “Criminally Negligent News” (cited in print since 2009), the “Collapsing News Network” (cited in print since 2010), the “American Pravda” (cited in print since 2012), the “Cuomo News Network” (cited in print since 2013), the “Collusion News Network” (cited in print since 2017) and the “Cuomo Nepotism Network” (cited in print since 2017).
   
       
Wikipedia: CNN
The Cable News Network (CNN) is an American basic cable and satellite television channel that is owned by the Turner Broadcasting System division of Time Warner. The 24-hour cable news channel was founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage, and was the first all-news television channel in the United States.
 
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I saw the CNN clip you’re chatting on, baby, & my 1st thought was that I was NOT surprised that the Corporate News Network showed but a one-minute clip of two (over-the-top) folks from a SIX-hour town hall re: a VERY historic event. 
 
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Can’t blame you for needing a translation, baby.  The Corporate News Network (CNN) & other members of the lamestream-press certainly ain’t going to inform us about it.
         
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Anti-corporate power cascade.
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Fuck CNN.
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Urban Dictionary

CNN
Corporate National News; a source where various forms of propaganda, and a good laugh can be found
Holy shit dude, i spent all night yelling at those fuckers on CNN before i realized those dumb bitchs can’t hear me
dodane przez mista ska marzec 25, 2003
 
Democratic Underground
peopleb4money
Sat Jun-25-11 11:33 PM
CNN = Corporate News Network
 
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Emails From the Year 2002
By Andreas Daniel Fogg
Xlibris LLC (Xlibris.com)
2013
Pg. 49:
And the approach of CNN lately seems to involve minimizing the imputation of guilt to Enron’s upper level management. If they aren’t careful people may begin calling CNN the Corporate News Network.
 
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DJ POOH
‏@DJPooh
CNN “Corporate News Network”
8:22 PM - 18 Aug 2014
 
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Jové
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@Ivan_Nichiporov @cnni
CNN, the Corporate News Network hahaha, think they’ll keep fooling us 😊
6:48 AM - 28 Aug 2014