"Breaking the News" with D.L. Hughley is offensive and inappropriate
Monday, 3. November 2008, 05:04:17
"Breaking the News" with D.L. Hughley is offensive and inappropriate.
I will no longer watch CNN for the rest of the election.
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"Breaking the News" with D.L. Hughley has changed my mind about CNN. I may never watch CNN again, I am removing CNN from my blackberry, and will begin lobbying CNN to remove the show as soon as possible.
Why? First, for whatever reasons, the show does not reflect the production quality and journalistic integrity of CNN. It's as if they gave D.L. $100,000 and some cameras and 15 people in a very small audience to laugh at very bad racial jokes with possible far-reaching political ramifications, coming from a network that full well knows it's influence on the political process. CNN's journalistic impartiality is now heavily in question.
So, Secondly, I question the motivations of CNN, placing a racially charged, dumbed-down, poor quality, politically-charged show on their network during a time when a highly intelligent African-American is likely to be voted in as President. It seems to me to be a blatant attempt to sway voters away from voting for Barack, for fear of a world where shows like this air on CNN. The show is full of negative stereotypes and unimaginable suppositions about life with a Black President.
Third, as an African American, I am deeply offended by the stereotypical material and characters. This show wouldn't even last past the pilot on Comedy Central or BET, and it's received poor ratings and blogs after it's pilot. Why is it still running?
Please take the show off of the air immediately.
Jon F. Ellis
I will no longer watch CNN for the rest of the election.
Click on the link below to send your complaints and comments about the "Breaking the News" D.L. Hughley show to CNN:
http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form5.html?107
You can copy my comments below if you like:
"Breaking the News" with D.L. Hughley has changed my mind about CNN. I may never watch CNN again, I am removing CNN from my blackberry, and will begin lobbying CNN to remove the show as soon as possible.
Why? First, for whatever reasons, the show does not reflect the production quality and journalistic integrity of CNN. It's as if they gave D.L. $100,000 and some cameras and 15 people in a very small audience to laugh at very bad racial jokes with possible far-reaching political ramifications, coming from a network that full well knows it's influence on the political process. CNN's journalistic impartiality is now heavily in question.
So, Secondly, I question the motivations of CNN, placing a racially charged, dumbed-down, poor quality, politically-charged show on their network during a time when a highly intelligent African-American is likely to be voted in as President. It seems to me to be a blatant attempt to sway voters away from voting for Barack, for fear of a world where shows like this air on CNN. The show is full of negative stereotypes and unimaginable suppositions about life with a Black President.
Third, as an African American, I am deeply offended by the stereotypical material and characters. This show wouldn't even last past the pilot on Comedy Central or BET, and it's received poor ratings and blogs after it's pilot. Why is it still running?
Please take the show off of the air immediately.
Jon F. Ellis
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