no, the CNN program in the US is absolutely not at all the same as the CNN program broadcast in Europe, which is horrible. It isn't just news, I could watch other programs on CNN, and the news isn't even the same as the stuff they broadcost in European hotels from CNN, for example. In Europe, CNN just runs the same few programs continuously all day long.

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