I've been using <a href="http://lite.cnn.com" rel="nofollow">http://lite.cnn.com</a> for quite a long time now. I think it's the same site as cnn.io, as they do look identical.<p>Keep in mind that they don't show all of their articles. So you miss a lot if you only go to the text-only pages.<p>BUT if you care to notice the URL, it's very easy to convert a graphical site link to a text-only one. The fact that there isn't already a plugin to do it automagically is a surprise to me.
This is great!<p>CNN has really pissed me off the past few years, not because of their reporting, which I love. But with their insane in-your-face ads and auto play vids, scroll-jacking, clickbaity links to cheesy spammy sites, etc.<p>A terrible web interface to what is otherwise top-end journalism.
It's generally good, but a couple of notes:<p>1) It can freeze up for days at a time with no new material.<p>2) Some articles make heavy references in the text to the images that you cannot see!