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CNN Bombs in First Quarter, Fails to Crack Top 20 in Ratings
Newsbusters ^ | April 4, 2020 | Randy Hall

Posted on 04/05/2020 7:14:26 AM PDT by kevcol

When the CNN debuted in 1980, it soon earned a reputation as the top source for quick information 24 hours a day, all week long. That was 40 years ago and objective journalism is hard to find on the network in 2020. The liberal station has since fallen so far in the ratings that it was unable to generate even one program in the top 20 list during the first three months of 2020, which has been labeled “a dismal first quarter.”

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Politics; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: cnn; fakenews; mediabias; ratings
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To: HamiltonJay

CNBC? They have been doing everything they can to make this thing do as much economic damage as possible. The worst. Every time the market showed any sign of recovering they would dig up some virus horror story to head it off.


21 posted on 04/05/2020 7:39:57 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: kevcol

Would love for OANN, and a coalition of American conservatives, to buy CNN.


22 posted on 04/05/2020 7:41:00 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: gibsonguy

Andrew Ross Sorkin on CNBC in the morning is the worst. He does not have real world experience and is the worst sort of girly man -— so he panics and creates hysterics.

Cant the US govt just snap their finger and get billions of supplies and rejig the entire health care system.


23 posted on 04/05/2020 7:45:30 AM PDT by bob_esb
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To: IronJack

Unbelievable. Nobody wants to see Wolf Blitzer pontificate? Nobody wants to watch the wit amd wisdom of Don Lemon and Anderson Cooper?


24 posted on 04/05/2020 7:53:33 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: BRL

They are doing what they are suppose to do and great success to the left.


25 posted on 04/05/2020 7:53:51 AM PDT by cp124 (Time for America 2.0)
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To: Drango

CNN can’t be profitable. Wonder who’s propping it up? Soros maybe?


26 posted on 04/05/2020 7:54:21 AM PDT by snoringbear (,W,E.oGovernment is the Pimp,)
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To: kevcol

Most airports have these bozos spewing 24/7 on every monitor in every concourse. Take that away and they’d be talking only to themselves.


27 posted on 04/05/2020 8:12:47 AM PDT by katana
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To: kevcol

I don’t watch much cable news. Sunday morning new seems to be clearly split into two camps.

Divisive
Chuck Todd and NBC are leading a movement to play Let’s You and Him fight, a game perfected by Alinsky organizers and described in Games People Play by Eric Berne. The Dividers are doing everything possible to bait politicians into fighting with each other. Pitting one Trump appointee against another. Pitting one governor against another. Both inter party and intra party divisiveness is their goal.

Unity
Fox, CBS seem to be leading a movement that we are all in this together. The virus does not favor one political party, one race, one sex. It does pick on the elderly and those with already weakened healthy, regardless of religion or politics.

It will be interesting to see which message the American public prefers.


28 posted on 04/05/2020 8:15:22 AM PDT by spintreebob
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To: BRL

The people who fund CNN do not care

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Exactly, for the political Left, CNN is simply an eternal campaign ad. Many people realize that, but some do not. It is those who do not yet realize that fact who are the targets of the “news” broadcast.


29 posted on 04/05/2020 8:44:06 AM PDT by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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To: Drango

So why do they still have advertisers?


30 posted on 04/05/2020 8:48:12 AM PDT by tom paine 2
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To: kevcol

Not surprising...

even Dana Bash and John King have turned rabid.


31 posted on 04/05/2020 8:51:07 AM PDT by Conserv
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To: kevcol

No wonder....no one is flying right now.


32 posted on 04/05/2020 8:54:49 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: tom paine 2

Because This Old House has a loyal following.


33 posted on 04/05/2020 8:54:55 AM PDT by Drango (1776 = 2020)
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To: kevcol

CNN the company that only hires losers and other idiots and proud of it.


34 posted on 04/05/2020 8:58:11 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: Savage Beast

I think that’s been done. Black screens.


35 posted on 04/05/2020 9:01:34 AM PDT by JudyinCanada
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To: kevcol

So . . . what do you call it when you keep doing the same thing but expecting a different outcome?


36 posted on 04/05/2020 9:03:05 AM PDT by Renkluaf
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To: Flick Lives

Reruns of the Beverly Hillbilly’s, F Troop, and Get Smart would be better than CNN.


37 posted on 04/05/2020 9:04:36 AM PDT by cnsmom
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To: kevcol

CNN employees don’t get paid to make money.

They are paid to attack the Republicans.


38 posted on 04/05/2020 9:07:43 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: kevcol
Flunky: "These ratings are terrible, Mr. Zucker! What can we do?"

Jeff Zucker: "Don't change anything. Keep hammering at the monster Trump 24 hours a day, 7 days a week."

Flunky: "But then the ratings will stay at the bottom."

Jeff Zucker: "You idiot! That is not what CNN is about! Learn this and learn it well. The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution!"

39 posted on 04/05/2020 9:16:12 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Apparently few folks are edified by the scintillating wit and trenchant observations of the Kings of Fake News. They prefer to get some semblance of truth in their news gathering.


40 posted on 04/05/2020 9:23:42 AM PDT by IronJack
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