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Why Does CNN Exist?
Lawrence Person's Battleswarm Blog ^ | 13 Dec 2021 | Lawrence Person

Posted on 12/13/2021 2:33:31 PM PST by Rummyfan

In wake of the news that a CNN producer was arrested for raping children as young as nine years old, I have to ask: Why does CNN even exist in 2021?

They’ve been below the 1 million viewer threshold for some time. Fox News had 71 of the top 100 most viewed cable shows. CNN had zero.

Tucker Carlson’s 8 p.m. show led Fox’s lineup with a dominant 3,667,000 total average viewers and 651,000 average viewers in the key 25-54 demographic. Fox News noted in the release that Tucker’s Kyle Rittenhouse interview drew big ratings, helping to propel the program to the number one spot for November.

After a strong October, Fox’s The Five scored second place in the cable news ratings averaging a total of 3.51 million viewers in the month of November and 557,000 average viewers in the key 25-54 age demographic.

Sean Hannity placed third for November, averaging 3.23 million total viewers, with 541,000 average viewers in the demo.

Fox beat CNN by 294% in primetime viewers and 184% in the demo during prime time. Fox also topped MSNBC by 136% in primetime total viewers and 200% within the demo during prime time.

How many advertisers will continue ponying up ad money for less than a million viewers? (Insert your own “Depends” joke here.)

(Aside: One company that sponsors a lot of CNN and other news shows: Pfizer.)

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Why indeed?!


1 posted on 12/13/2021 2:33:31 PM PST by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

CNN is just the domestic element of CNN International, which spreads anti-American propaganda world wide.

I assume they get their revenue from our enemies.


2 posted on 12/13/2021 2:38:43 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Rummyfan

Yeah, but why does the five exist? ratings aside, it’s really lame.


3 posted on 12/13/2021 2:39:47 PM PST by Bullish (This is the most bloated and most inept govt in history.)
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To: Rummyfan

Why Does CNN Exist?>>>>>>>>>>

Errrr...to hire Chris Wallace? ( Big Fail)


4 posted on 12/13/2021 2:41:08 PM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: Rummyfan

CiaNN


5 posted on 12/13/2021 2:42:41 PM PST by Pollard (PureBlood -- youtube.com/watch?v=VXm0fkDituE)
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To: Steely Tom
I assume they get their revenue from our enemies.

I believe your assumption is correct.

6 posted on 12/13/2021 2:43:11 PM PST by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: Rummyfan

Much of the News Business ...
Is not about News ...
And it’s not really a Business ...

They don’t care about revenue or ratings. They get money from Who Knows Where (CIA? Saudi Arabia? China?) and they push a political narrative which hurts the US, while masquerading as a news organization. Their basic goal is mass hypnosis of the US population so that we can be manipulated.


7 posted on 12/13/2021 2:43:17 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (Mass hypnosis of society. So many people are blind to the Truth which is in front of them.)
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To: Rummyfan

CIA pedos....

CIA mocking bird basically running several MSM outlets....

FBI looking the other way when it comes to CIA and CNN pedos...

ALEX JONES WAS RIGHT AGAIN!


8 posted on 12/13/2021 2:44:07 PM PST by GraceG ("If I post an AWESOME MEME, STEAL IT! JUST RE-POST IT IN TWO PLACES PLEASE")
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h/t cockroach_magoo
<><>it’s not okay for a CNN producer to groom children,
<><>but it is okay when public school administrators do it.

SOURCE — DAILY MAIL
The 44-year-old CNN producer from Stamford CT, who worked ‘shoulder to shoulder’ with Chris Cuomo according to the Daily Mail, ‘used Google Hangouts and Kik to convince the mothers that a “woman is a woman regardless of her age,” and that “women should be sexually subservient and inferior to men,” according to a Friday indictment.

In June of 2020, Griffin advised a mother of 9- and 13-year-old daughters that the mother’s responsibility was to see that her older daughter was “trained properly.” Griffin later transferred over $3,000 to the mother for plane tickets so the mother and her 9-year-old daughter could fly from Nevada to Boston’s Logan airport.

The mother and child flew to Boston in July of 2020, where Griffin picked them up in his Tesla and drove them to his Ludlow house. At the house, the daughter was directed to engage in, and did engage in, unlawful sexual activity.

“We take the charges against Mr. Griffin incredibly seriously,” a CNN spokesperson told the Mail on Friday. “We only learned of his arrest this afternoon and have suspended him pending investigation.”


9 posted on 12/13/2021 2:44:23 PM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other 1 egg white Oil for side doesn't know which bathroom to u)
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To: Rummyfan

So slimeballs will have a place to call home and a meal ticket 🤪


10 posted on 12/13/2021 2:47:49 PM PST by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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To: Steely Tom

Actually, I was thinking their biggest stockholders are the nameless and faceless global elites in the 1%. They, along with people like George Soros, Bill Gates, et al, are the ones shoving the Great Reset down our throats, and the millions of $ that CNN loses every quarter is mere pennies to them.

CNN exists solely to push and promote the globalist agenda. Period.


11 posted on 12/13/2021 2:47:52 PM PST by Qui is (Biden spews https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4020201/postsHarris swallows. )
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To: Rummyfan

That’s an existential question like why are some people *##holes?


12 posted on 12/13/2021 2:48:20 PM PST by ReleaseTheHounds ("The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher )
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To: Rummyfan

Don’t have cable.


13 posted on 12/13/2021 2:57:22 PM PST by Leep (Save America. Lock down pres. Brandon!)
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To: Liz
and that “women should be sexually subservient and inferior to men,” according to a Friday indictment.

How cutting edge./S

Except that even the slobbiest and crudest men haven't talked that way since around 1972. At least around me.

14 posted on 12/13/2021 2:58:29 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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Why Does CNN Exist?

Because, when we closed all the mental hospitals, we needed a place to put the crazy 'news' people.

15 posted on 12/13/2021 2:59:36 PM PST by Lazamataz (I feel like it is 1937 Germany, and my last name is Feinberg.)
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To: Bullish

The Five is one of the best opinion shows on FOX. You get all the day’s current events in one hour with some real funny humor. And keeping it real with an opposing view. Whoever the leftist guest is.


16 posted on 12/13/2021 3:00:11 PM PST by deweyfrank (Nobody's Perfect )
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To: Rummyfan

Hannity might be at the top of the ratings numbers if he would just quit blowin’ Linda Gramnesty once a darn week.


17 posted on 12/13/2021 3:00:58 PM PST by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy Mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
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To: Qui is
IMHO, CNN exists as the NYT. Its purpose is not to make a profit. Its purpose is to have an "official" "news" source to be quoted or linked to by many Dim outlets.

Now that we live in a video driven society, having the NYT in print or on the web isn't a good enough source to reference when the Dim "news" outlets need something to reference. Thus, CNN provides video footage to reference so that Dims can sound educated to the low educated voters.

18 posted on 12/13/2021 3:03:11 PM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Rummyfan

cuz people pay their cable tv bill and cnn is in the bundle

half of cnn’s revenue is from cable subscriber fees

paying your cable tv bill is funding the LEFT


19 posted on 12/13/2021 3:04:50 PM PST by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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To: Rummyfan

If you pay for cable/satellite you’re paying for CNN. The last time I had cable, about 10 years ago, CNN was in the basic package but you had to go one up in your programming to to get Fox.

https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2019/03/13/nolte-90-million-pay-money-cnn-fewer-1-million-watch/


20 posted on 12/13/2021 3:06:57 PM PST by suthener ( )
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