Clinton News Network (CNN nickname)
Cable News Network (CNN) began in 1980 as the first all-news television channel. Some critics of CNN have claimed that the network is biased and favors the politicians Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton. The nickname “Clinton News Network” has been cited in print since at least 1992 and was popularized during the presidency of Bill Clinton from 1993-2001. However, the name “Clinton News Network” was also used during his wife Hillary Clinton’s runs for the Democratic presidential nominations in 2008 and 2016.
CNN has also been nicknamed the “Chicken Noodle News” (cited in print since 1981), the “Communist News Network” (cited in print since 1991), “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 “Corporate News Network” (cited in print since 1999), 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.
While the news channel has numerous affiliates, CNN primarily broadcasts from the Time Warner Center in New York City, and studios in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles, its headquarters at the CNN Center in Atlanta is only used for weekend programming. CNN is sometimes referred to as CNN/U.S. to distinguish the American channel from its international sister network, CNN International.
Wikipedia: Bill Clinton
William Jefferson “Bill” Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III; August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He previously served as Governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and 1983 to 1992, and as the state’s Attorney General from 1977 to 1979. A member of the Democratic Party, ideologically Clinton was a New Democrat, and many of his policies reflected a centrist Third Way philosophy of governance.
Wikipedia: Hillary Clinton
Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (born October 26, 1947) is an American politician who served as the 67th United States Secretary of State under President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013. She is the wife of the 42nd President of the United States Bill Clinton, and was First Lady of the United States during his tenure from 1993 to 2001. Clinton subsequently served as a United States Senator from New York from 2001 to 2009, and is a candidate for President of the United States in the 2016 presidential election.
Google News Archive
21 October 1992, The News (Boca Raton, FL), “Sounding Board,” pg. 8A, col. 1:
Every editorial of yours is so biased against Bush it’s ridiculous. Why not call your paper the “Clinton News”? And while you’re doing that, call CNN the CLinton New Network?
Google Books
The news Manipulators:
Why You Can’t Trust the News
By Reed Irvine, Joseph C. Goulden and Cliff Kincaid
Smithtown, NY: Book Distributors
1993
Pg. 122:
One man quipped that CNN was beginning to sound like the “Clinton News Network.” He had a good point, and it applies to the Big 3 networks as well.
Google News Archive
28 February 1998, Wilmington (NC) Morning Star, pg. 8A, col. 4 editorial cartoon:
“EXCLUSIVELY ON CLINTON NEWS NETWORK”
Google Books
The Rules of Power:
Reclaim Your America from Washington Hypocrites, Liars and the Compassion Con Game
By Charlie Tyrrell
Kingston, NH: Straight Talk Publishing
2000
Pg. 189:
CNN: THE CLINTON NEWS NETWORK
Rick Kaplan is CNN’s News President. Years ago Clinton called him for advice during the peak problems about Gennifer Flowers.
Urban Dictionary
CNN
Communist/Clinton News Network
nothing but propaganda there
by popisdead February 25, 2005
Urban Dictionary
CNN
Clinton News Network
A cable news network that serves as the polar opposite of Fox News.
Fox News: Bush is one resolved leader who sticks to his guns and frees the oppressed. “Resolved Bush”, “Operation Iraqi Freedom”
CNN: Bush is one arrogant leader who is truly inflexible and a war mongerer. “Stubborn Bush”, “Operation Iraqi Oil”
by cali2000 June 13, 2006
Google News Archive
5 December 2007, Southeast Missourian (Cape Girardeau, MO), “Clinton News Network,” pg. 6A, col. 1 editorial:
The CNN/YouTube Republican presidential debate serves as a perfect example of why conservatives refer to CNN as “Clinton New Network.”
Infowars
CLINTON NEWS NETWORK: CNN CLEARLY WANTS HILLARY FOR PRESIDENT
Boy, did CNN manipulate the hell out of the debate
Joshua Krause | The Daily Sheeple - OCTOBER 18, 2015
For the most part, there really wasn’t anything controversial about CNN’s presidential debate last Tuesday, which is exactly how the mainstream media likes to present their “debates.”
Google Books
Doubletalk:
The Language, Code, and Jargon of a Presidential Election
By Chuck McCutcheon and David Mark
Lebanon, NH: University Press of New England
2016
Pg. ?:
Back in the 1990s, Republicans disparaged CNN as Clinton News Network.