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(7,894 posts)KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)elleng
(130,156 posts)fadedrose
(10,044 posts)or a travel channel.
He's a good-looking guy and could host something other than cooking onions.
I can't watch it anymore. Yet it got awards...
I guess it's me.
What happened to Turners' 24-hour news channel? Food, forensics, weeklong specials - there's nowhere to go for news . .
elleng
(130,156 posts)both on CNN and earlier on Travel, cultural stuff I've found interesting.
JI7
(89,182 posts)ignorant "reporting" by people like Wolf Blitzer.
cali
(114,904 posts)90% of reporters.
sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)appropriate for his program. It takes up literally hours of what should be devoted to news. I wonder what the ratings are?
Skittles
(152,966 posts)Warpy
(110,913 posts)The lack of loaded language in a newscast is refreshing and their in depth stories are often very good.
Just don't expect them to say a good thing about Israel, ever.
JI7
(89,182 posts)have you ever watched Wolf Blitzer ?
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)octoberlib
(14,971 posts)has done excellent shows on Iran, Libya , Vietnam, the Mississippi Delta. I've learned more from him about these areas of the world than I have from any mainstream journalist.
840high
(17,196 posts)never miss his show.
Warpy
(110,913 posts)Haiti two years after the earthquake, Saudi Arabia.
It might start out with food, but it goes places that need to be explored.
locks
(2,012 posts)especially the shows on the Congo, Mexico, Thailand, Detroit, Brazil, South Africa, Lyon, in fact almost every one of them have been really interesting learning experiences. I hope you will watch them; they are also on Natl Geographic and online.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)I never watch tv, so....seems there's good stuff I'm missing.
csziggy
(34,120 posts)Here on weekends, the world could end and they wouldn't break into their sports coverage. I used to watch CNN to get at least national and international news on the weekends. Now we get programming - the 60s, Bourdain, Forensic Files in the middle of the night, etc.
Anthony Bourdain may be a perfectly nice person but he doesn't interest me and I find his shows annoying as programming. To show them in lieu of actual news coverage is absurd.
Thank goodness our TV carrier has added Al Jazeera - at least now I can get international news all the time.
madfloridian
(88,117 posts)He is not politically correct, he is honest and often very liberal in his views.
When he goes to a country in conflict it's like being there and understanding it better.
dilby
(2,273 posts)It's not just all food and visiting hotels, he covers a lot about the countries history, political climate and what is going on with it's current Government.
chillfactor
(7,566 posts)I watched one program and I was bored to death.....
woolldog
(8,791 posts)Historic NY
(37,449 posts)he is fairly straightforward.
kwassa
(23,340 posts)what a gig.
tavernier
(12,322 posts)of him over the sleazy garbage that recently present themselves as our elected officials. At least he speaks his mind and isn't owned by some lobbyist group.
UTUSN
(70,497 posts)Said by some DUers, that he's hypocritical about his love for Mexican food preparers (the allegation goes: ) because he's cashing in on cheap labor.
But as most other posters have said above, he delivers loads of history/culture, not just "food".
What little I know (probably from Wiki) he is a Lib who avoided visiting Israel because he's non-sectarian and when he finally did the show he did it as a Mixed thing.
Justitia
(9,316 posts)He has softened his language about it a tiny bit since getting the CNN gig, but he has said some really nasty shit for no good reason in the past.
I find him totally weird on the topic.
aikoaiko
(34,127 posts)msanthrope
(37,549 posts)BeyondGeography
(39,284 posts)OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)Been a fan since he was just eating cobra hearts.
Skittles
(152,966 posts)ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)....on network TV....
It's one of the few things worthwhile on CNN.