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CNN Loses Half Its Viewers In A Year

CNN Fails to Stop Fall in Ratings

By BILL CARTER
Published: March 29, 2010

CNN continued what has become a precipitous decline in ratings for its prime-time programs in the first quarter of 2010, with its main hosts losing almost half their viewers in a year.

The trend in news ratings for the first three months of this year is all up for one network, the Fox News Channel, which enjoyed its best quarter ever in ratings, and down for both MSNBC and CNN.

CNN had a slightly worse quarter in the fourth quarter of 2009, but the last three months have included compelling news events, like the earthquake in Haiti and the battle over health care, and CNN, which emphasizes its hard news coverage, was apparently unable to benefit.

The losses at CNN continued a pattern in place for much of the last year, as the network trailed its competitors in every prime-time hour. (CNN still easily beats MSNBC in the daytime hours, but those are less lucrative in advertising money, and both networks are far behind Fox News at all hours.)

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There is no reason to watch CNN. While it is the least biased of the cable news networks, it also just covers the news on a superficial level. When have CNN reporters uncovered anything? Why would anyone feel compelled to get their news from CNN instead of any other news source? Maybe if CNN put more effort and money into investigative reporting or something along those lines, it would have more success.

That being said, I guess the BBC is similar yet I'll take the BBC any day over CNN. I don't know why that is really. The accents perhaps.

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I dunno. I guess I could spend time listening to Wolf call me a racist for disagreeing with Obama.

CNN is the least partisan. It is typical crap though. MSNBC is for the D and Fox for the R. CNN is without a demographic.

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ETA: Perhaps I was being too hard on CNN. To be fair, CNN is not alone in its sins of manufacturing news. Here is MSNBC getting caught "making" news.

MSNBC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYKQJ4-N7LI

P.S. .... the guy with the gun is black (and its not a machine-gun).

From ABC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7syx26QtQIM&feature=related

People rag on CNN, but they're not alone. Fox has its own way of "selectively" reporting the news....

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