Why On Earth Do Airports Air CNN Non-stop?

When you walk through the airport, you may notice that all of the TVs around you are tuned to CNN. This isn’t a coincidence. The war-mongering network has a virtual monopoly on airport TVs, forcing airline passengers to watch their corporate-sponsored content. Ring of Fire’s Mike Papantonio and Farron Cousins discuss this.

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When you walk through the airport, you may notice that all the TVs around you are tuned to CNN. This isn't a coincidence. The war mongering network has a virtual monopoly on airline TVs, forcing airline passengers to watch their corporate sponsored content. This is an interesting story to me.

Do you remember the run up to Iraq? You would walk through an airport and I have never seen such war mongering as was coming from CNN. Remember the big maps they had on the floor? Wolf Blitzer would walk around and, "We're sending in our troops here, and we're sending in reporters." It was like they couldn't wait to get to war. Everybody walking through an airport thought, "Oh my god, Iraq, they're responsible for 9/11, Saddam Hussein, he's at the heart of all this." CNN, along with the other cable sold that story. Right?

They did, and what's interesting too, and CNN is still 100% this way and we'll get to that in a moment. CNN sold that war to the American people. They did it more than FOX, they did it more than MSNBC. They did it more than New York Times, even. They were the ones who convinced the American public, as you just said, that Saddam Hussein was somehow involved with those plane hijackings, 9/11, this guy was linked to it. They did everything they could to sell this.

Now, just like back then, you're going to walk through an airport and all you're going to see on the TVs is CNN, and it's because that they've worked out this deal, these contracts to be the only network that can be shown in the hallways or in the waiting areas at the gates at airports. You have no choice.

Well, the reason this is such an important story to me is, it wasn't just Iraq. It was Syria. The next thing, we got to go to Syria. Go all the way back to Iran. Where do they make their money? Where does cable make their money? It makes it in the ... Now they're trying to sell a war with Russia. I mean hell, we'll be having ballistic missiles between the US and Russia if CNN gets its way.

Here's my point about this. If you look at trends, you've done so many stories on trends with cable to begin with. Your theory is that cable is almost RIP, it's almost RIP cable. Rest in peace cable, where do you see this kind of story fitting into where things are going? I mean, we should be able to walk through an airport and not be confronted with this.

I think so. I think there's absolutely no reason to have a network like CNN. When you're traveling you don't need to be subjected for this. Again, this is essentially, for the most part this is corporate propaganda. They're doing this, they're selling wars. They're selling Saudi Arabia and Yemen right now, pushing for more attacks, more missiles, more bombs, because then the commercials come on and it's a commercial for Boeing. Okay, well, who's watching CNN that's going to go out and say, "You know what? I'm going to go buy a Boeing ..."