Posted on 10/28/2009 5:22:16 AM PDT by Zakeet
CNN, which pioneered cable news, now rates dead last among cable news networks. Prime time ratings are down 68 percent since last year. Of course, much of that is due to 2008 being an election year, but CNN's fall relative to the other news networks can't be blamed on the election cycle.
Can some of CNN's decline, at least, be attributed to the network's liberalism in general and its attacks on and sniggering denigrations of, normal Americans? It's hard to tell. But sniggerer-in-chief Anderson Cooper's ratings are sliding into the toilet. (The midsummer blip was Michael Jackson's death.)
CNN apparently has tried to market its on-air personalities by having them participate in the television show Jeopardy, thereby showing off their superior intelligence. That hasn't worked out too well either. If the network really gets desperate, it could consider covering the news straight. But that isn't likely: look how many newspapers have preferred to go bankrupt rather than abandon their liberal bias.
PAUL adds: Life hasn't been grand for liberal newspapers, either. Paying readership is down 10.6 percent nationwide over the past 12 months, according to figures released by he Audit Bureau of Circulation. Virtually every newspaper that has seen an increase in circulation during this period is a relatively small one that focuses on local news; the Wall Street Journal being the main exception.
The Los Angeles Times lost 11 percent of its paying readers; the New York Times 7 percent; and the Washington Post 6 percent. Somehow, the San Francisco Chronicle lost 26 percent of its paying daily readers.
Those of you who haven't seen the CNN newsers on Jeopardy have missed a treat.
Quick! Get O.J. out of jail, and put him in a white Bronco!
well, it’s no wonder, Joy Behar..give me a break, she had Coulter on the other night, but I still couldn’t bring myself to watch..it is trash trash trash.
Reap. . .sow.
Fox News has 16,000 more viewer than all of the other networks combined!
I saw Soledad O'brien, I think, next to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (maybe?) I couldn't even tell she was playing, with the exception of the camera occasionally panning over her.
This is CNN’s punishment for giving us Obama. That’s why there’s nothing they can do to reverse the downward spiral.
It’s funny, the DUmmies thing CNN is failing because they’ve moved right!
Airports showing Fox news!!! Preposterous....why would people want to know the truth!!
Wait a minute .... you mean Ricardo Sanchez’s race-baiting, Campbell Brown’s constant Obama ass-kissing, and 120+ straight hours of coverage of the mediocre Ted Kennedy’s life failed to bring in the viewers?
I’m shocked, just shocked I tell you ....
But with CNN's falling viewership, we now have a reason to ask for the change to FOX. Hard to say no to the most watched....use the same plan the Libs would use in this situation.
TV networks who try to force homosexuality advocates like Anderson Cooper on the public are inevitably forced to admit that the public just isn’t interested.
Both Cooper's and Maddow's ratings drops show that the American public has little interest in watching snarky gays.
This is an open resolution to CNNs sad rating .
ANSWER : Want better ratings ??? ATTACK THE PRESIDENT ON ANYTHING and Chairman Zer0 will do the rest .
You didn’t miss much. Any time Coulter tried to talk, Behar just said, “Hey, this is my show!” Makes for boring debate, well, not really debate, but you know what I’m saying...
Funny...when I travel and they have CNN on, it is very rare you see someone watching the TV.
However, I remember traveling through one airport that had Fox News. It was a few years back and for the life of me I can not remember where.... I think it was Kansas City?
All I remember think was...”Holy Moly...Fox News”!!!!
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