I rest my case!
Posted on 12/30/2021 5:54:28 AM PST by blam
CNN managed a remarkable feat in 2021. The network, currently reeling from a spate of pedophilia related allegations among its staff, succeeded in losing ANOTHER 38 percent of its viewership.
According to Nielsen data, CNN saw the massive drop in weekday prime-time viewership, while MSNBC saw a 25 percent drop in viewership for the same time slots.
The data shows that on average there are 919,000 Americans watching MSNBC, while only 787,000 are still watching CNN.
At this rate the networks will soon be out of business.
At this point, anyone still watching CNN has to be either completely brainwashed or brain dead. The network is now desperately attempting to corral these zombies into paying for its services with subscriptions.
Howard Stern recently posited the question “who the hell’s gonna pay for CNN+?” noting that “people don’t want CNN. I mean are they outta their minds?”
Fox News also saw a decline of 34 percent, but still has vastly more viewers with an average of 2.3 million during prime time hours.
Network news channels also saw significant declines in viewership, with NBC “Nightly News” registering a 14% decline, and both ABC’s “World News Tonight” and the “CBS Evening News” seeing 12% drops in viewership.
The data also revealed that visits to mainstream media news websites plummeted, with unique visitors to the Washington Post’s website dropping by an staggering 44% between November 2020 and 2021, and the New York Times registering a 34% decline in unique visitors.
While analysts claim the decline is due to President Trump leaving office, one might posit that it has more to do with the torrent of bullshit pouring out the mouths of every anchor and talking head visible on the networks, and practically every ‘journalist’ woefully attempting to disguise their opinions as real news in the Post and the Times.
When “news” shows report on their competing “news” shows I tend to think they are being really lazy. Which is what I think of the news in its entirety. Just real lazy journalists.
I rest my case!
Other than with subsidiaries from deep pocket leftists like Soros or the heads of big tech companies, CNN is doomed to bankruptcy. With the loss of airports broadcasting CNN 24/7 with no one watching and with millions cutting their cable subscriptions those sources of revenue for CNN have dried up. Given CNNs abysmal ratings, advertising revenue would also likely be pretty bleak. I’m looking forward to CNN soon to be closing their doors.
Spot on
Did they even have 38% to lose?
We’ve had enough of their fabrications and lies. Even the “true believers” need to be taught many hard lessons.
“CNN is not a business. It is a propaganda outlet for AT&T. A cost center not a revenue generating center.”
Assuming the spinoff of CNN and other Time-Warner media entities goes through, there is a real opportunity for the executives of the new company to reposition CNN and dramatically capture market share. All they have to do is return to reporting straight news as classical journalists answering the questions who, what, when, where, why in a factual, unbiased way. Supplement with commentary that is clearly labeled as editorial and opinion and not embedded in news reporting. Balance commentary between left, right, and moderate pundits. ng straight news balanced with clearly labeled opinion.
Throw in an occasional in depth investigative journalism report, again balanced between both conservative and leftist sacred cows. For example an in-depth report into sources of Mitch McConnell’s wealth, and conflicts of interests, could be balanced with a similar report on Nancy Pelosi.
This positioning will be highly attractive to the majority of independents as well as people on the left and right capable of reason and desiring a reliable and trustworthy source of factual information and a look at opinions on the right and the left.
That was awesome. Been feeling that notion once I saw a newscast describe a situation where I knew what was really going on. They are totally inept, those “news” people.
Yes…a propaganda outlet…it is a cost of spreading the lies for the leftists…
Nice collection there, dfwgator. The point is made with this evidence!
Communist News Network is Unwatchable.
Dang, Gator. Now, that was impressive.
The sooner the better.
"At this point, anyone still watching CNN has to be either completely brainwashed or brain dead."
But apparently half the US electorate is brainwashed or brain dead; euphemistically they say that they are "woke.". They're not watching CNN? How do they maintain their washed brains? Are they in danger of having Truth enlighten them?
"The network is now desperately attempting to corral these zombies into paying for its services with subscriptions."
Anyone brainwashed or brain dead enough to watch CNN will probably do it.
You are so right about that, and what you have said is well said. That's exactly what's destroying America. The evil most fundamental to the destruction of Western Civilisation is contempt for truth--truth for its own sake--whose result is rot and corruption.
Note tagline.
They’re probably right about Trump being gone means viewership is down. Left or right, there’s no reason to watch the news if its devoid of content. “Dear leader is wonderful” is boring.
A little perspective: Since I live in PA, this is the number of Pennsylvanians watching MSNBC and CNN; 33,911 for MSNBC and 29,040 for CNN. That's out of 12.3 million people. MSNBC and CNN are meaningless. You should feel free to abuse and ridicule the hell out of any freak that watches that stuff. They are the extreme fringe leftist minority. They are a bunch of queers, transgenders, bLM, Antifa freaks. On top of that, they are a bunch of pussies cowering in their homes afraid of a frickin' virus. They ain't Americans. They are eff'n Commies and should be treated as such.
... although WP’s viewership being down SO much is probably because of the paywall. It used to be that I could easily get around the paywall.
I will always remember Trump (long before being elected POTUS) trashing Wulf Blister saying “be thankful there’s so few people watching you embarrass yourself”.
Great tagline. So true!
A very sobering graphic.
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