Posted on 05/30/2025 4:14:04 AM PDT by Libloather
CNN host Jake Tapper had his lowest-rated month in nearly a decade in May despite a whirlwind publicity tour giving him an onslaught of attention.
Tapper and Axios reporter Alex Thompson’s new book, “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again,” was released in May to much fanfare. The book helped set the recent news cycle with new accusations of the Biden White House hiding the truth about the former president’s fitness for office.
To promote the project, Tapper has embarked on a wide-ranging book tour that landed him on a variety of podcasts, talk shows and cable news. The book has also been promoted relentlessly across CNN, but the spotlight on Tapper has seemingly failed to give him a boost in viewership.
“The Lead with Jake Tapper” averaged 525,000 total viewers from April 28 through May 25, shedding 25% of CNN’s audience in its timeslot from the same period last year in the process.
By comparison, Fox News offerings “The Five” and “Special Report with Bret Baier” averaged 3.3 million viewers from April 28 through May 25, trouncing Tapper.
MSNBC also beat Tapper among total viewers, as programming on the progressive network averaged a little over one million viewers in the timeslot. As a result, Tapper settled for only 11% of the cable news audience share, while MSNBC managed 21% and Fox News commanded 68% during the timeframe.
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no ‘plausible deniability’ to Tappers claims. Trying to rewrite history.
“Book Buzz”?! “Biden’s Accomplishments” 300 blank page. There isn’t a credible utterance available from anyone in that crime family. And Americans know it.
Tapper made a disastrous mistake writing this book. Democrats hate him for exposing Biden’s fake presidency cabal and Republicans hate him for covering it up. It won’t be long before Tapper is some obscure pod caster.
Note that these articles never mention demographics.
Bet his demos are even worse than hus ratings.
I guess the apology tour isn’t working as he hoped. Maybe because he hasn’t really taken responsibility for ALL the damage that he and his media friends have really done to this country.
So even his family has given up watching.
352 pages and he NEVER discloses who operated the Autopen.
His next book will be titled: “Marketing Tips I Learned From The Dixie Chicks”
people have to do more than dont watch
cnn/msnbc survive on cable subscriber fees
as long as they are in the basic bundle
they arent going anywhere
cut the cable tv and force the cable tv company to offer a la carte
they have the technology
His next book will be titled: “Marketing Tips I Learned From The Dixie Chicks”
That’s good.....I’m stealing that.....
Same for espn, they make a killing on high fees and few watch.
Yes, that’s a stroke of genius. Love sophisticated humor.
Johnny Carson Quality....
It’s a needle that couldn’t be threaded, yet such is his arrogance he thought he could. As he has conceded, the conservative press was correct on this issue the whole time. The being the case, even our dimmest co-citizen can understand that the argument that legacy media was fooled by the administration is laughable on its face
His books paper is hard on my sphincter.
He won’t make a dime if no one buys the book.
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