Posted on 05/11/2021 11:52:27 AM PDT by calvincaspian
What a way to go.
CNN’s viewers are abandoning the news network en masse. As media critic Joe Concha notes, “The drop CNN is experiencing is profound. On Friday, not one program broke 900K total viewers. Prime averaged less than 800K overall.
For comparison, the network averaged 2.74 million viewers in January, so we're talking about more than two-thirds of the audience - gone.”
The sales department must be in a total panic.
On the programming side it is obvious that decision makers are trying to recapture last year’s numbers by recreating Donald Trump and his administration in the form of Tucker Carlson and Fox News.
It is not working.
Viewers used CNN’s coverage of Trump to satisfy their need to validate their utter hate for the 45th president. CNN’s reporters and anchors abandoned journalistic efforts and threw in with Trump haters as fearless activists.
CNN was a fling. Viewers and the network enjoyed a torrid affair in a tumultuous time but CNN is not somebody you settle down with.
Sure, the 2021 version of CNN can put on airs of journalistic purity and chastity but no one is buying it. Not only can CNN not get its virginity back but it is utterly laughable to watch them try after four years of televised red-light district libertinism.
They are a toxic institution who gave it all away to make hay at a time when people needed the truth. They were not concerned with the fallout and it is only too gratifying to behold that in 2021, the fallout is them.
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Queue the Boo-Hoo girl.
“Sayonara CNN: Two out of three viewers have abandoned the Cable News Network and it couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch.”
They will probably find one or two billionaires (Social Media emperors) to bail them out.
And James O’Keefe is about to own them in court.
I always wished Rush would have bought them, and made the Conservative News Network
From a business stand point, if you are continually losing customers and revenue, you should look at your business plan and adjust. Or, as CNN is doing,die.
I just saw a brief clip of CNN calling Senator Rand Paul an ass.
Lowlife scum, CNN.
It's American audience is of negligible importance to their bottom line, which isn't very large. CNN's owner values them as a world-wide megaphone, not as a truth-telling organization.
They are funded by the DNC so they don’t care. They just keep pumping out propaganda and people keep posting the crap on Free Republic, Gateway Pundit, etc.
Geezer, I bet reruns of Cake Boss, or Flip or Flop get better ratings than CNN.
But it’s also strange to think, does nobody want to watch the wit and wisdom of Don Lemon, Chris Cuomo, Anderson Cooper, etc????
Whom, may I ask, is still watching that garbage?
CNN makes its money in overseas markets, feeding the world-wide appetite for the “America sucks and is the cause of all your problems” message.”
This hate America or America Sucks programming for overseas markets has been going on for decades.
A friend, who is no longer around, had a lot of business contacts in Europe. So he spent a of time in major Euro cities.
He watched a lot of their so called talk shows between appointment and actual business contacts.
He said that the average Euro-trash tv talk shows were basically none stop hate America or America sucks and
is stupid. Most of this trash talk came from washed out in America former entertainers.
So you’re saying that CNN is now the VOAOC: Voice Of AOC?
Do they still inflict CNN or airport travelers?
From your keyboard.....
You mean there are people who actually watch CNN???
Anything we can do to destroy woke companies is welcome. Next Coke, then gilette, then target, then disney ...
Well, you get the idea.
As long as XiNN has carriage fees, ratings won’t matter.
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