CNN: Live & Breaking News
CNN: Live & Breaking News has 1,663,826 ratings, averaging 4.8 stars, #4 of 9,477 in News.
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★★☆☆☆ Decent App, Not Worth Subscription Wills_Apple_Music · 22 Jun 2025I think the CNN app was pretty good for general major news stories. With some UI changes it did begin to get more cluttered, but nothing overwhelming. Then many of the news stories started requiring a subscription to read or even look at the background of a topic they were referring to. Also I think reorganizing some of the topics would be necessary. As a tech person, I absolutely don’t care about CNN’s take on various new products. I’ll go to one of the many dedicated sites that specialize in that, provide benchmarks, etc. Not some young kids quick take on what they thought was “neat” in a pr
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oduct. Again all these were annoyances but no reason to completely stop using it. Now they introduced subscription required for everything. Now that’s a joke. CNN is the vanilla news equivalent, don’t expect anything super in-depth but a general overview. There are so many other unbiased (not saying that CNN is, they seem rather neutral), that provide higher quality news reporting for free. I think CNN overestimated itself as a news outlet. They are good for high level overviews of major stories. Every flavor of monetization of their coverage has failed in the past you would think they would learn by now. -
★★★☆☆ Improvement needed Ricky1066 · 9 Apr 2024CNN has some timely, serious reporting, But also a lot of inconsequential fluff. Limited real estate is often dedicated to multiple stories covering insignificant aspects of some event, often no more than a simple celebrity snafu. If something mildly weird happened somewhere in the world, it is sure to find his way to this app. And, while I am no Trump fan, I get the feeling that I am inside my own echo chamber while reading CNN, because as much as I appreciate reading Articles detailing our president’s incompetence, I suspect he and his administration must occasionally do something right – –
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but you would never know by reading CNN. The most annoying aspect of CNN is its use of videos. A video on CNN is no more than a vehicle for presenting the customer with an advertisement they would rather not see. Accordingly, CNN uses videos where a written report would do just as well, if not better. CNN also attaches videos to stories, leading you to believe the video somehow relates to the story in a material way, when in fact the video has only the most tangential relationship to the subject of the article. At other times, the video simply does not play! Often, what appears to be the opening scene or frame of the video, Which entices you to actually watch the video, disappears when you open the video and discover that the scene or frame that caused you to open it cannot be found within the video, which is often completely unrelated. All that said, some of CNN is content is timely and good. I just wish CNN were a more reliable source of substantive news and did not resort to click bait and similar chicanery to get you to watch advertisements you would rather not see. -
★☆☆☆☆ New app version is a mess AprilRoxStudios · 22 Jul 2023This CNN app was much better prior to it’s major makeover that occurred a few months ago, which has too many disjunct sections mixed with unrelated sections of articles & underscored ads. -It’s hard to know which articles are news and which are ads disguised to be news. Also, lots of articles aren’t being removed daily, making it feel like we’re reading days old topics. Please switch back to the way CNN’s app used to be where readers could scroll down and know distinctly each section had related topics and were current. It was closer to scrolling down on Facebook with being able to see today’s
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headline stories. This new version is a mess. It’s confusing, frustrating and wants readers to weed through the massive amount of junk on the “Top News” page because it’s wants everything to be newsworthy. It’s makes the reader have to work to filter through garbage just to get one or two real current headline stories. Remove the advertisement stories posed as newsworthy headlines. Stop with postings of any and everything on that page in particular as it takes away from what’s really news and what’s just advertisements which has created a lack of credibility of what you’re feeding your audience. Please go back to the old app’s version where top news page was primarily today’s headline stories and the ads were more distinct so readers could clearly avoid clicking on them. -
★★★☆☆ Stand up for Democracy, CNN! balfe book club member · 20 Aug 2022Don’t give up on democracy please CNN! You started out so informative and insightful in your Jan 6th committee coverage. The analysis was impressive. You even had a time slot devoted to democracy. That disappeared and now you just seem to be trying to prop up the Republican Party. They created the mess they are in, and you are trying to rescue them while they continue to try to suppress voting rights. This is how democracy dies. Thanks CNN. Moving on to the topic of national security — your clip of Anderson Cooper’s interview with Maggie Haberman left out some of the the most astoundin
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g information she provided. The fact that the former guy routinely tried to take top secret documents up to the private residence in the WH and bristled when Kelly (his first chief of staff) tried to stop him. I wonder how successful his next 3 chiefs of staff were at this task or if they even tried to stop him. I gave you 3 stars for the fact that, on occasion, you do point out Republican politician lies. So many lies. The country of George “I cannot tell a lie” Washington and Honest Abe has become a country where lying is big business, and the go-to strategy for getting Republicans elected whether they are Trump candidates or not. -
★★★★★ Truth about our government Ace5241947 · 11 Jan 2022I can’t rely on Fox News because they are so far from reality they sound like a bunch of sideshow acts broadcasting purely to make us laugh. Every time I listen to them I think to myself what planet are they living on because they don’t deal with reality. CNN is reliable with their process of carving out the truth with their great line up of reporters like Anderson Cooper and Dana Banks. Reporting from Jake Tapper and so many new and dependable people that dig to get to the bottom of what’s going on in the world. What they report is scary especially right now with all the craziness going on
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in our government and nuts like Cruz, Trump and Hawley and the rest lie to the American people. I fear for the good people in our country. I fear the far right because they are working to take our democracy away. Biden doesn’t have the guts to tell the far right they aren’t doing what is needed for our country. I worry about Covid and how it has held the progress of our society from moving forward. CNN is the only news outlet I can listen to and know they are telling us how it is. I only wish they could tell us how to keep our country from going off the tracks when immoral people are trying to bury us with their lies and working 24/7 to fill their pockets after good people have fought hard shedding their blood to give us democracy. I want to keep it. So CNN how can we keep our country from being stolen by the filth in our government? Time is running out what can we do CNN? -
★★★★★ Too Hard On Biden Austay · 27 Dec 2021I think you are too hard on Biden. I view myself as an independent and in these last 5 years, I have seen such craziness in our country that I am not sure that we have a Democratic or Republican party in place anymore. I used to be Republican but how can I say that now when so many Republicans are totally inappropriate and borderline criminal. Our last President did so little to help this country in a pandemic. Thousands died due to his administration decisions or indecisiveness. Sure you spoke against this as you should have, but now we have someone, a current President, that is a least tryin
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g. He may not be the most eloquent speech maker but he does not insult me nor verbally attack anyone like the terrible, inflammatory rhetoric that we have heard in the last 4 years and continue to hear everyday. Maybe your expectations are higher than mine. Maybe you expect so much more from a career politician than you ever did from a corrupt businessman who constantly told us “he alone can fix it”. Maybe you expect the person going into the White House after 4 years of lies being told to us since day 1 of his administration, remember the crowd size numbers and using alternative facts, to 600,000 people dying from a pandemic which was supposed to be gone in March of 2020…..maybe your expectation of someone turning this whole mess around is just too unrealistic. Have we ever had the President of United States having to deal with a former president pretending that he is still president and people even in Congress and probably in the Senate too supporting that every single day in so many different ways. That is just one example of how crazy it must be for Biden along with all the other things that he is having to deal with. I give him credit for acting like a President, can you do the same. Can you do accurate reporting without ripping the man apart. It might help to mend this country, instead of picking on the poor guy who is at least trying. Thank you -
★★★★★ Improved counselorw · 29 Nov 2021In 2016 I thought you were all clueless about the problems that trump posed. I think you are learning. Keep it up. And come down hard on the republicans until they become a party with propitious ideas again. When Biden stumbles give him a gentle kick. But remember we are now fighting to save the country and form of government that our founding fathers created. A strong hint would be to show the differences in how women and men think differently. The men gave us the war 1812, the civil war, destruction of Native American ideals without showing their outstanding answers about how to live i
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n harmony. We need more specials on the horror of slavery, we need to remember that European Americans did not all come here as honest brilliant scholars, and point out Lin_Manuels brilliant musical and how many more Hispanics will bring brilliant prose, music, sports skills, literature and innumerable other talents that will send us moving forward again. Then there is science and how far along we have come in a year. When the scientists answer our questions have you noticed the notable number who answer our questions about the virus and vaccines with their foreign accents? I am an average American here who reads constantly to find the answers we all need. And for those of you who do not know, climate change, crispr and other more difficult problems are here now. How about giving them a mention. Finally why would people elect a president who tells his base to dump their masks and in doing so kills his supporters. Thank-you for reading my never ending verbiage. I think in paragraphs, not sentences. My last (really) thought centers around Ronald Reagan. He did help the people in Granada as he destroyed unions and expanded the gaps between the different segments of our country. Unless we can all grow none of us will. Thank-you. Kathryn -
★★☆☆☆ Too many commercials Jaydeezd · 1 Sep 2021The stories are good , the content in general is reliable. The biggest gripe is the amount if commercials. You will literally spend 40% of your time watching the same 6 commercials if you want to browse the videos. The worst part is the click bait that “the most trusted news source” uses, they give you an X to close commercials but it’s impossible to click the actual exit portion of it, instead every attempt redirects you to some terrible product page. I hope the sponsors wake up and see that likely 98% of the traffic they get from CNN is people just trying to close the commercial by clicking
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the X and are duped into a redirect because it’s actually a nano sized exit spot and don’t actually care about the product and leave their site immediately. Really a totally scammy thing to do CNN. At this point I just avoid the videos and get what I need from the text stories. If I'm forced into a video for lack of a written version, I just turn the volume down during the commercial and ignore the content (focus on the timer at the bottom). It's only natural to want to avoid watching the same commercial for the 50th time ... -
★★★★☆ Opinion ret sgt maj · 27 Nov 2017Since President Trump has taken office CNN and other news sources have undermined everything he has tried to do. When past presidents have attempted the same things CNN posted favorable coverage. Has anyone thought about the country that our president represents and what he could accomplish if he had some support. An example of this: in the past leaders of North Korea have made all kinds of threats and violence to the US and other countries and when that occurred our presidents always tried to pacify them with talk and many times giving in to their demands or at least partially. None of that w
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orked period. So now we have a new president with new ideas, one that was elected to run the country. And what happens does he get support, no just the opposite. Federal judges wanting to show off stop him cold , news media publish their BS polls that I think they get out of their butts. When he attempts to stop or scare Kim when Kim threatens us with nukes he reminds him that we also have nukes , but then what happens while Kim is shaking with the thought of losing his position in life: a bunch of elected officials and again the news media all quickly announce that president Trump doesn’t have the power to make a first strike or use our nuclear weapons. Wow way to go I’m sure Kim in North Korea was able to breathe normal again with that bit of good news. Wake up America if president Trump loses the country loses. United we stand and divided we fall. Old news, yes but we better wake up or we might just wake up to a whole new world, one that we may not like. -
★☆☆☆☆ Ok app, horrendous content. Fun_Bob · 3 Nov 2017I watched a lot of CNN back in the 90's (think Menendez brothers trial, OJ in the bronco, OJ trial era) until I spent overseas. After that, I got into the habit of reading weekly magazines and daily broadsheets (WSJ, IBD, NY Times, the Economist, Forbes, Newsweek, & local newspaper). I hadn't had anything to do with CNN in nearly 20 years due to nothing more than a change in habits. After all of the hubbub about news this past year, I thought I would look into CNN to see for myself. I know 20 years is a long time but not only has CNN changed but I feel like they are not even living in the
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same country let alone the same reality. I read what are commonly considered conservative and liberal news. Everyone has a point of view and there is nothing wrong with reading an opposing viewpoint, in fact it's very healthy to do so. But CNN is not just coming from a certain viewpoint, it is extremely agenda driven. Maybe their viewership shares their extreme viewpoint, or are so indoctrinated by it to have become blind to the extreme slant. But to someone like me immersed in news of various politics and viewpoints, their sheen of objectivity is completely transparent and I see them as a pure organ of propaganda. They are the worst propaganda organizations station since William Randolph Hearst or more recently, Pravda. Like I said, the country they live in is different from the one I know and love. I haven't been witness to such unmitigated, unapologetic hatred by anyone, for anyone since Air America Radio went out if business. No thanks CNN.
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Growth change in ratings
| Per | Growth | Growth % | Actual change | Measured over |
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| day | Not enough history yet | |||
| week | -51 | -0.0% | -111 | 15.2 days |
| month | -152 | -0.0% | -267 | 52.8 days |
| year | Not enough history yet | |||
How these figures are measured
Change in ratings, scaled to each window from the real gap between crawls. A window needs a full period of history before it reports anything.
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