Calling this  site the CNN Tweaker is something of a misnomer. However, I spent a decade at Cable News Network as Senior Investigative Correspondent and it is the news organization I know best, even though what I see now has no similarity to Ted Turner’s Chicken Noodle Network, or the Clinton News Network as it was once called, or the CNN that came of age in the 1990’s before bottom line profits and image became more important than legitimacy.

Still, CNN remains the nation’s only twenty-four hour news channel. Make that seventeen or eighteen hours. Although  Fox and MSNBC claim to be news channels, both cable networks produce mainly entertainment under the guise of news. The role of Fox is to provide material for Comedy Central and the Colbert Report. MSNBC acts as Fox’s chief adversary.

In comparison to these competitors, CNN epitomizes journalistic purity. That’s being generous to the network that helps pay for my golf.  But instead of screaming at the television set when I see news trivialized and sensationalized, I will screech on this blog at all the news organizations claiming to report what viewers and readers need to know.

Not so incidentally, the networks, local stations and publications, are blameless for a loss of integrity. They give an unthinking audience what it wants see and read. But that doesn’t make the the news media’s transgressions less of a scandal.

If I’m wrong, I invite visitors to The Derelict Gunslinger to set me straight.