CNN has been a joke for a long time, I watched it for about 5 minutes here awhile back just to see if they were still socialist lunatics... yep, still are. I simply can't stomach watching a news broadcast that holds 180° view of the world than I do. No doubt a lot of people feel the same which is probably why their viewership and influence have fallen in the last few years.
You quit speaking to a good friend because they happened to work for CNN?