Scoop on Coop: His ratings droop (CNN/Dinosaur Media Extinction Alert)

Variety ^ | May 7, 2005 | MICHAEL LEARMONTH

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Journo's never drawn auds in like predecessor

The Anderson Cooper media bandwagon continues to defy logic, and ratings gravity.

It's been nearly a year since Cooper was anointed CNN's youthful savior and given Aaron Brown's primo 10 p.m. timeslot.

Since then, he's been TV news' media darling, most recently gracing the cover of June's Vanity Fair.

But Cooper's stellar media masks an inconvenient truth: He's never achieved the ratings of even his predecessor.

CNN sacked Brown believing Cooper could draw a bigger, younger audaud at 10 p.m. But that hasn't happened. And the VF cover hit just as April ratings showed Coop down 36% in the 25-54 demo, the younger aud he was supposed to attract.

Brown averaged 307,000 young viewers a night last year. This April, Cooper averaged 198,000. In total viewers, Cooper averaged 710,000 compared to 907,000 for Brown last year.

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Excellent news for a Sunday Evening!!

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Pinging the DMEA List with today's good news!!!

[llevrok]

If I may add -

Scoop on Coop: His ratings droop. Oh Poop !

[bert]

Here's the announcement..... CNN is no longer MainStream Media.

CNN is but an eddy in the ether.

[onyx]

Oh, Anderson... not our beloved Coop.

[Dog Gone]

bummer

[abb]

CNN - circling the toilet bowl of oblivion...

[Cicero]

Only in liberal America would you have a magazine that named itself Vanity Fair.

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Then I saw in my dream, that when they were got out of the wilderness, they presently saw a town before them, and the name of that town is Vanity; and at the town there is a fair kept, called Vanity Fair. It is kept all the year long. It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where it is kept is lighter than vanity, Psa. 62:9; and also because all that is there sold, or that cometh thither, is vanity; as is the saying of the wise, “All that cometh is vanity.” Eccl. 11:8; see also 1:2-14; 2:11-17; Isa. 40:17.

This fair is no new-erected business but a thing of ancient standing. I will show you the original of it.

Almost five thousand years ago there were pilgrims walking to the Celestial City, as these two honest persons are: and Beelzebub, Apollyon, and Legion, with their companions, perceiving by the path that the pilgrims made, that their way to the city lay through this town of Vanity, they contrived here to set up a fair; a fair wherein should be sold all sorts of vanity, and that it should last all the year long. Therefore, at this fair are all such merchandise sold as houses, lands, trades, places, honors, preferments, titles, countries, kingdoms, lusts, pleasures; and delights of all sorts, as harlots, wives, husbands, children, masters, servants, lives, blood, bodies, souls, silver, gold, pearls, precious stones, and what not.

--John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

[Coop]

He's an embarassment to the name...

[tiredoflaundry]

Scoop on Coop: His ratings droop.

Don't they have pills for that now?

(runs & hides) ;-)

[Dog]

To get beaten by Aaron Brown...the shame.

[Cementjungle]

CNN is nothing more than the official DNC-channel.

[johniegrad]

Maybe "Left wing media bias for the Queer Guy" isn't selling so well in fly-over country.

[umgud]

He has some new lyrics.......... it's been real and it's been fun, but it ain't been real fun, so I gotta run.

[Dog]

I guess Coop lost the Clown Posse following....:-)

[ncountylee]

Twice I tried to watch his show and couldn't. That's enough.

[onyx]

ROTFLOL!

[lexington minuteman 1775]

And CNN continues its spiral into oblivion. Bwahahahahaha! Good bye and good riddance!

[Dog]

:-)

[ErnBatavia]

CNN sacked Brown believing Cooper could draw a bigger, younger audience

By now maybe they've learned that people only enjoy watching fruits when they're doing their hilarious Pride Parade gigs...

[Arizona Carolyn]

Is this the viewers that Keith Olberman picked up? Bet it is.... Brown was very liberal and droll -- sort of like Olberman; most of the time Anderson is pretty likeable and when I get sick of listening to H&C fight I switch to see what Anderson is doing that night (H&C are opposite Anderson in the late night rerun)..

[skandalon]

I remember when I was in high school, we were forced to watch Channel 1 news(directed advertising) with this buffoon. I see a few more Channel 1 people now in the MSM.

[WSGilcrest]

This guy's supposed to appeal to who? BWAHAHA!! Get real.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

First comes Bunyan, then comes Thackeray...

"Though the name Vanity Fair comes from John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, Thackeray uses the concept in a very different way from Bunyan. For Bunyan, Vanity Fair comprises all the worldly activities which distract the Christian from salvation and lead to damnation; they are vanities for this reason. At risk is the Christian's immortal soul.

The phrase "vanity fair" came to mean "a place where all is frivolity and empty show; the world or a section of it as a scene of idle amusement and unsubstantial display" (the Oxford English Dictionary or OED ). For Thackeray, everyone lives in Vanity Fair or society; vanity has become the desire for society's approval and rewards; the individual seeks, not spiritual salvation, but the rewards of this world–success, status, and wealth. "

http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/novel_19c/thackeray/index.html#discuss

If the shoe fits...but still the same thing is at risk, even if people try to pretend it away...

[SkyPilot]

[martin_fierro]

Beat me to it!

[edpc]

Going gray is like ejaculation. You know it can happen prematurely, but when it actually does, it's a total shock. - Anderson Cooper - from his Details magazine column, August 2003.

[PGalt]

Outstanding news!

So sad for mainstream propagandists. They groomed Anderson Cooper by forcing him on high school students in the '90's on Channel 1 at the beginning of each school day.

[Coop]

I guess Coop lost the Clown Posse following....:-)

See? A silver lining in every cloud!

[SaxxonWoods]

"Going gray is like ejaculation. You know it can happen prematurely, but when it actually does, it's a total shock."

Wait for it...







What Coop said after seeing Shep on TV for the first time.

[muir_redwoods]

Cooper who?

CNN is still on the air?

Why?

[SkyPilot]

Going gray is like ejaculation. You know it can happen prematurely, but when it actually does, it's a total shock. - Anderson Cooper - from his Details magazine column, August 2003.

EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!

[Clintonfatigued]

Well, I'm sure it's not just propoganda. The fact that his mother is Gloria Vanderbilt was probably a factor.

[finnman69]

Anderson Cooper performed at my high school's annual talent show did a standup routine wearing tights, with a long balloon and two tennis balls down his pants. (there is a photo in my yearbook)

Maybe the best performance of his entire life.

[PGalt]

Agreed. Thanks for the reminder. As a sustitute teacher in the early-mid 90's the students in my school district were force fed Channel 1 for 15 minutes at the beginning of each school day. I usually spent the next 20-30 minutes de-programming them and I wasn't even a FReeper then.

[Cicero]

If Becky Thatcher were around today, she'd be right up there with Perky Katie Couric.

[NW Mike]

I couldn't get past his promos.

[RBroadfoot]

TV news is a waste of time. I just subscribed to satellite for the first time, and found CNN to be dreadful. ABCCBSNBC is similarly pathetic. PBS wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for its left tilt on the news. I got Fox News for free for while, but it's not worth paying extra for.

It's much better to read the WSJ and check out headlines on Google or Yahoo.

[04-Bravo]

I did a lot of channel-surfing during the news coverage of Hurricane Katrina. I thought Anderson Cooper and Shepard Smith both acted like teenage girls. I can't stand to watch either one of them now.

[Thumper1960]

Schadenfreude!

[hardknocks]

"Anderson Cooper performed at my high school's annual talent show did a standup routine wearing tights, with a long balloon and two tennis balls down his pants. (there is a photo in my yearbook)

Maybe the best performance of his entire life."


Certainly beats anything he's done on DNC...er...CNN.

[Grampa Dave]

He is CNN's out in the open token rabid Gay pretending to be a tv journalist or whatever he does.

We should cheer when liberal companies like CNN/Time Warner squander scare $ resources to prop up and maintain a loser like this loser.

[Grampa Dave]

"Maybe "Left wing media bias for the Queer Guy" isn't selling so well in fly-over country."

My tagline agrees with you and points out the obvious reality for all of the MSM: "There's a dwindling market for Marxist homosexual lunatic wet dreams posing as journalism!"

Hopefully, the owners and controllers of the dying MSM never figure this out and the simple math of never angering the 62 million people who voted for GW in 2004.

[Grampa Dave]

fyi and indexing

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Dave, how's this and the declining fishwrap circulation numbers for a Monday Morning shot of good news? Kinda adds a sparkle to the day, don't it?

[Xenalyte]

Becky Thatcher? Tom Sawyer's girlfriend?

[Cicero]

Senior moment. I meant Becky Sharp.

[griswold3]

Interesting...

[Pilsner]

For the first couple of years I heard the name "Cooper Anderson" as a CNN show, I thought that Coppers-Lybrand and Arthur Anderson had merged and were producing a business and investing news show.

[Liz]

Hopefully, the owners and controllers of the dying MSM never figure this out and the simple math of never angering the 62 million people who voted for GW in 2004.

Heh.....too complicated.....they'll never "get it."