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LOL!!!!! Politico says:
======raising doubts about whether the network’s middle-of-the-road strategy===========
Bwahaha, CNN isn’t anywhere the middle of the road.
CNN middle of the road??? While CNN didn’t descend into the orgiastic Obama love fest exhibited by MSNBC, they were biased as hell in the 2008 elections.
network remains committed first and foremost to high-quality journalism.
whether there's a way to bring in ratings without the ideologically slanted hosts that have pulled in partisan viewers on the left and right.
And while being “nonpartisan” is something most journalists strive for
“We don’t wake up in the morning with an ideological focus the way the other two clearly do,”
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! (deep breath) Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! (deep breath) Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! (deep breath) Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! (deep breath) Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! (deep breath)
Of course, the really dedicated moon-bats will hang their TV's upside down so they can watch Keith Olbermann in their night-time perch.
CNN's viewers are racists/sarc
If there are no viewers, being in the middle of the road doesn’t matter
Who does Calderone think he's kidding?
cnn has shown both sides during the campaign..they showed those who worshipped obama..and then those who only thought obama walked on water..
To suggest that CNN is middle of the road is to believe that O loves America, Israel, and the Queen of England.
CNN International is more biased than Al-Jazerra.
CNN... you mean the channel where just last night on Wolfie’s show Christiane Amanpour breathlessly spoke about the “massive civilian deaths” caused by American missile attacks?
They might be ‘middle of the road’ but the road appears to be heading to Mecca.
“Middle of the road?”
Teabagger Cooper, L King, Cam Brown, Rotund Roland Martin, Gasbag Gergen, Toobin, Schneider, The Kook on Blitzer, Begala, Carville... Etc.
Real middle of the road.
The only semi conservative I can think of is Lou Dobbs/
Middle of the road programming at cnn?Politico must be smoking some real radical sh!t.
the network’s middle-of-the-road strategy
[sarcastic eye roll]
Klein pointed out that "Anderson Cooper 360" is beating "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" at 10 p.m.
Guess the audience liked Cooper's "teabagger" jokes better than Olbermann's.
there’s also a perception of being stuck, in one's words, in “the murky middle.”
I would say CNN is soft left, FOX is soft right, and MSNBC is KOS left.
Back in the day, the environmental Left consciously set out to mainstream (verb) groups like the Sierra Club by creating and publicizing the more radical groups like Earth First. Doing so made the Sierra Club look centrist and respectable, even staid. It worked, and the left considers this to have been a very successful strategy.
I see the same thing going on with MSNBC and CNN. They are too competitive for it to be an agreed-to strategy but the effect is similar. Olbermann makes Cooper look like Cronkite.
I think it would cool if some deep-pocketed conservative got all strategeristical and created a truly right wing network to shift the perceived center point rightward. Then FOX would be one of the two “centrist” networks with CNN. In fact, with four networks there would be no true center as with three.
Wait... that was AMC.
Never mind.
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One factor that was not mentioned but has affected the Fox vs. CNN ratings is the late arrival at Fox of true HD programming. Fox was basically faking it last year during the election cycle and even I, a loyal Freeper for sure, was turning to CNN for election coverage. CNN was way ahead of Fox technically until just a few months ago. But that advantage is gone and with it some number of viewers who instinctively prefer Fox programming. HD is in about 25% of homes these days and they are likely to be in homes with satellite or cable access so the impact of the Fox upgrade to true HD programming was an important factor. At least IMHO.
