This guy's supposed to appeal to who? BWAHAHA!! Get real.
Posted on 05/07/2006 3:42:39 PM PDT by abb
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.
Is this the viewers that Keith Olberman picked up? Bet it is.... Brown was very liberal and droll -- sort of like Olberman; most of the time Anderson is pretty likeable and when I get sick of listening to H&C fight I switch to see what Anderson is doing that night (H&C are opposite Anderson in the late night rerun)..
I remember when I was in high school, we were forced to watch Channel 1 news(directed advertising) with this buffoon. I see a few more Channel 1 people now in the MSM.
First comes Bunyan, then comes Thackeray...
"Though the name Vanity Fair comes from John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, Thackeray uses the concept in a very different way from Bunyan. For Bunyan, Vanity Fair comprises all the worldly activities which distract the Christian from salvation and lead to damnation; they are vanities for this reason. At risk is the Christian's immortal soul.
The phrase "vanity fair" came to mean "a place where all is frivolity and empty show; the world or a section of it as a scene of idle amusement and unsubstantial display" (the Oxford English Dictionary or OED ). For Thackeray, everyone lives in Vanity Fair or society; vanity has become the desire for society's approval and rewards; the individual seeks, not spiritual salvation, but the rewards of this world–success, status, and wealth. "
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/novel_19c/thackeray/index.html#discuss
If the shoe fits...but still the same thing is at risk, even if people try to pretend it away...
Beat me to it!
Outstanding news!
So sad for mainstream propagandists. They groomed Anderson Cooper by forcing him on high school students in the '90's on Channel 1 at the beginning of each school day.
See? A silver lining in every cloud!
"Going gray is like ejaculation. You know it can happen prematurely, but when it actually does, it's a total shock."
Wait for it...
What Coop said after seeing Shep on TV for the first time.
CNN is still on the air?
Why?
EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!
Well, I'm sure it's not just propoganda. The fact that his mother is Gloria Vanderbilt was probably a factor.
Anderson Cooper performed at my high school's annual talent show did a standup routine wearing tights, with a long balloon and two tennis balls down his pants. (there is a photo in my yearbook)
Maybe the best performance of his entire life.
Agreed. Thanks for the reminder. As a sustitute teacher in the early-mid 90's the students in my school district were force fed Channel 1 for 15 minutes at the beginning of each school day. I usually spent the next 20-30 minutes de-programming them and I wasn't even a FReeper then.
If Becky Thatcher were around today, she'd be right up there with Perky Katie Couric.
I couldn't get past his promos.
TV news is a waste of time. I just subscribed to satellite for the first time, and found CNN to be dreadful. ABCCBSNBC is similarly pathetic. PBS wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for its left tilt on the news. I got Fox News for free for while, but it's not worth paying extra for.
It's much better to read the WSJ and check out headlines on Google or Yahoo.
I did a lot of channel-surfing during the news coverage of Hurricane Katrina. I thought Anderson Cooper and Shepard Smith both acted like teenage girls. I can't stand to watch either one of them now.
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