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Comment by tibbon | Hacker News Reader

Yet, no mention on front page of CNN. However there is "What breast-milk lollipops taste like" and "Before and after: Child stars"

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They're in the entertainment-as-news business, not news. I'm surprised this hasn't become apparent to everybody yet. I haven't bothered to check them for for news in years now. It like expecting the Food Channel to cover hurricanes.

The reason I check them is I figure they are a good 'average' of the news that the average american receives. I definitely know it is neither comprehensive, nor good reporting. But I'm sad for the fact that most Americans will hear more about honey-boo-boo (or whatever stupid entertainment stuff) on CNN than they will about NSA collecting their phone records.

I agree their front page is overloaded with silly human interest stories and other fluff.

However, this is an update to an older story that was apparently broken on May 11th 2006 by USA today. It was covered by CNN tv on that day:

http://mediamatters.org/research/2006/05/11/despite-bipartis...

This is now getting coverage by major US news channels: https://www.google.com/news/rtc?ncl=dPuiLMqO9_4PpZMgjjKLahcv...

Kind of like the cooking show on CNN Turkey during the protests there last week ...

Don't forget about the penguins.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HLN_(TV_channel)

"HLN, formerly known as CNN Headline News (often abbreviated as HN) and CNN2, is a cable television news channel...Since 2005, however, its format has increasingly shifted to long-form tabloid-, opinion-, crime-, and entertainment news-related programming."

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