{"id":35280,"date":"2025-12-19T14:02:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T19:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/?p=35280"},"modified":"2026-01-03T20:39:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T01:39:18","slug":"cnn-viewer-switches-to-north-korean-state-tv-for-more-balanced-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/19\/cnn-viewer-switches-to-north-korean-state-tv-for-more-balanced-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN Viewer Switches To North Korean State TV For More Balanced Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND&#8211; A longtime CNN viewer announced that she has stopped watching the network entirely and now relies exclusively on North Korean state television, saying it provides a healthier mix of honesty, restraint, and openly acknowledged propaganda.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just got tired of being lied to with a straight face,\u201d said former CNN loyalist Shelley Reynolds, who described the switch as \u201cliberating.\u201d \u201cNorth Korea doesn\u2019t pretend. The anchor looks you in the eye and basically says, \u2018Everything is perfect because our leader says so.\u2019 That\u2019s refreshing. CNN insists they\u2019re neutral while screaming at me in unison.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reynolds said the breaking point came after CNN ran its twelfth \u201cexclusive\u201d panel discussion of the day featuring six people who all somehow agreed on everything while pretending to argue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt least in North Korea, there\u2019s only one opinion,\u201d she said. \u201cCNN gives you one opinion but wraps it in graphics, ominous music, and the illusion of debate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CNN executives responded by assuring viewers that the network remains \u201cthe most trusted name in news,\u201d citing an internal poll conducted among CNN executives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND&#8211; A longtime CNN viewer announced that she has stopped watching the network entirely and now relies exclusively on North Korean state television, saying it provides a healthier mix of honesty, restraint, and openly acknowledged propaganda. \u201cI just got tired of being lied to with a straight face,\u201d said former CNN loyalist Shelley [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[112,757,1113,117],"class_list":["post-35280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-u-s-news","tag-cnn","tag-north-korea","tag-rated-g","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}