Posted on 03/31/2010 7:05:51 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Fix CNN? I thought stupid can’t be fixed.
“Down the middle” news at CNN. WTF is he smoking?
MSNBC is way ahead of CNN in the ratings.
That seems to be the party line— the moonbats in my office insist that CNN is a “moderate” or “establishment” news source, which to them means “not HuffPo or Daily Kos.”
They’re really so deluded as to think their reports are “down the middle”? Down the middle of the crapper, maybe.
Want to rescue CNN? Sell it to Rush and let him Dittocam his show from 12-3 and find some true balance for the network. Watch the commielib heads explode if that ever happened but it would destroy any talk of reviving the “Fairness Doctrine”.
They shouldn’t change a thing.
Why would I want to fix CNN? I want them to fail.
Liquidate it.
If CNN became another conservative voice on cable, their ratings would double. But I don’t look for that to happen. To liberals, ideology trumps profit.
Down the middle ? Of what? Das Kapital?
Instead of just kicking them while their down, I’m going to try to offer some useful solutions.
I think that if they were really serious about changing their tune they should let the public express their opinions on what they want to see. Of course I don’t think they will but they got to know what they have isn’t working.
I believe they can find a niche if they bring back the debates that made their commentary so engaging in the first place. What would also help is if they form an internal ‘bias commission’ who would publicly respond to viewer feedback and that would review their reports for bias (in fact something like that would help every major news agency).
CNN’s main problem is trust, I don’t trust what they say and neither do most people. The MSM is constantly harrying the government for not being transparent, well the people expect their media to be also.
Those jerks have foam coming out of their mouths most of the time they are on the TV.
Crossfire and Inside Politics were they only shows I ever watched on CNN and they are both gone.
Fix meaning surgically neuter, like a misbehaving dog? Right? Well, they might resist, but they'll get used to it.
They could try going on Jeopardy and win... Oh, wait, they already tried that and showed their incompetence at coming up with the right questions there too.
Find someone to run the place that understands that “down the middle” doesn’t mean tilted like the tower of Pisa.
Uhhh??? Report?
"While its hard to completely attribute cause and effect to TV ratings, its interesting to note that Countdown had better ratings (and a less severe year to year ratings and viewership loss) during the month of March, when Keith wasnt on the air".... from TVbytheNumbers.com
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