Scoop on Coop: His ratings droop (CNN/Dinosaur Media Extinction Alert)

Variety ^ | May 7, 2005 | MICHAEL LEARMONTH

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Journo's never drawn auds in like predecessor

The Anderson Cooper media bandwagon continues to defy logic, and ratings gravity.

It's been nearly a year since Cooper was anointed CNN's youthful savior and given Aaron Brown's primo 10 p.m. timeslot.

Since then, he's been TV news' media darling, most recently gracing the cover of June's Vanity Fair.

But Cooper's stellar media masks an inconvenient truth: He's never achieved the ratings of even his predecessor.

CNN sacked Brown believing Cooper could draw a bigger, younger audaud at 10 p.m. But that hasn't happened. And the VF cover hit just as April ratings showed Coop down 36% in the 25-54 demo, the younger aud he was supposed to attract.

Brown averaged 307,000 young viewers a night last year. This April, Cooper averaged 198,000. In total viewers, Cooper averaged 710,000 compared to 907,000 for Brown last year.

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Excellent news for a Sunday Evening!!

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Pinging the DMEA List with today's good news!!!

[llevrok]

If I may add -

Scoop on Coop: His ratings droop. Oh Poop !

[bert]

Here's the announcement..... CNN is no longer MainStream Media.

CNN is but an eddy in the ether.

[onyx]

Oh, Anderson... not our beloved Coop.

[Dog Gone]

bummer

[abb]

CNN - circling the toilet bowl of oblivion...

[Cicero]

Only in liberal America would you have a magazine that named itself Vanity Fair.

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Then I saw in my dream, that when they were got out of the wilderness, they presently saw a town before them, and the name of that town is Vanity; and at the town there is a fair kept, called Vanity Fair. It is kept all the year long. It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where it is kept is lighter than vanity, Psa. 62:9; and also because all that is there sold, or that cometh thither, is vanity; as is the saying of the wise, “All that cometh is vanity.” Eccl. 11:8; see also 1:2-14; 2:11-17; Isa. 40:17.

This fair is no new-erected business but a thing of ancient standing. I will show you the original of it.

Almost five thousand years ago there were pilgrims walking to the Celestial City, as these two honest persons are: and Beelzebub, Apollyon, and Legion, with their companions, perceiving by the path that the pilgrims made, that their way to the city lay through this town of Vanity, they contrived here to set up a fair; a fair wherein should be sold all sorts of vanity, and that it should last all the year long. Therefore, at this fair are all such merchandise sold as houses, lands, trades, places, honors, preferments, titles, countries, kingdoms, lusts, pleasures; and delights of all sorts, as harlots, wives, husbands, children, masters, servants, lives, blood, bodies, souls, silver, gold, pearls, precious stones, and what not.

--John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

[Coop]

He's an embarassment to the name...

[tiredoflaundry]

Scoop on Coop: His ratings droop.

Don't they have pills for that now?

(runs & hides) ;-)

[Dog]

To get beaten by Aaron Brown...the shame.

[Cementjungle]

CNN is nothing more than the official DNC-channel.

[johniegrad]

Maybe "Left wing media bias for the Queer Guy" isn't selling so well in fly-over country.

[umgud]

He has some new lyrics.......... it's been real and it's been fun, but it ain't been real fun, so I gotta run.

[Dog]

I guess Coop lost the Clown Posse following....:-)

[ncountylee]

Twice I tried to watch his show and couldn't. That's enough.

[onyx]

ROTFLOL!

[lexington minuteman 1775]

And CNN continues its spiral into oblivion. Bwahahahahaha! Good bye and good riddance!

[Dog]

:-)

[ErnBatavia]

CNN sacked Brown believing Cooper could draw a bigger, younger audience

By now maybe they've learned that people only enjoy watching fruits when they're doing their hilarious Pride Parade gigs...