Wake Up Call: CNN’s Election Coverage Finishes Fourth

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[Typical_Whitey]

Highlighting even further the ratings erosion at CNN in prime time, the “Most Trusted Name in News” finished in fourth place among cable news outlets during election coverage last night.

Fox News was #1 by a mile, followed by MSNBC, then CNN sister network HLN and CNN in 4th place. They were fourth in both total viewers and the A25-54 demographic.

CNN’s 4th place finish last night was only made more glaring because last year’s election coverage on the network was their best night of all time. They didn’t just have more viewers than every other cable news network last year – it was the most of all time.

Here’s the ratings breakdown in prime time last night:

FNC: 4,043,000 in total viewers (1,130,000 in A25-54)

MSNBC: 974,000 in total viewers (308,000 in A25-54)

HLN: 842,000 in total viewers (341,000 in A25-54)

CNN: 826,000 in total viewers (227,000 in A25-54)

[Road Warrior ‘04]

I had been waiting for the ratings for Sunday’s shows, particularly Chris Wallace’s, with Rush as guest. Nearly doubled the other three combined. Good day for Wallace’s show.

[NautiNurse]

Ba! Humbug! We had a delicious time watching CNN and their liberal talking heads exploding last night.

[GeronL]

If you look at all cable channels CNN and MSNBC are not in the top 30.

hahaha

[GeronL]

#15-

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

When channel surfing I saw Olbermann playing football videos during election results last night???

I guess if his 0bama political commie party won, he would have reported the news.

[Red_Devil 232]

Yep! And when he told (spun) his story that NY-23 was a national race and Va and NJ did not mean anything I had to laugh!

But wait - every Dem or Dem talking head asked about the returns last night they gave the same answer!

What a joke these idiots are!

[Califreak]

I despise both him and Donna Brazile.

[bustinchops]

I watched some of CNN’s coverage after FNC went into repeat around 10pm Pacific. Anderson Cooper’s coverage was pretty decent, as was some of their other coverage. It couldn’t help but be better than MSLSD. But, lol, CNN’s Larry King’s coverage was just hideous. His first mistake was having Jesse Ventura on his 4-person pundit panel. Good gawd, what a colossal jackass. The man is a pugnacious moron. He’s dumber than a bag of hammers and a bully.

Anyway, good for Fox. Those numbers should be sent to zero so he can whine about how a non-news organizations has more than four times the audience of any of the others.

[Carley]

There is not a single on air personality on CNN that is worth wasting five seconds of my time to watch.

[bustinchops]

I don’t think Cooper is so bad. Compared to the others, he’s an asset. Larry King makes it obvious that the CNN is a joke because he is such a joke.

[deaconjim]

I was stuck in a hotel room last night, and the only news channel they had was CNN. Their panel of political commentators consisted of James Carville, Ben Stein, and Jesse Ventura. Is there any wonder no one was watching?

[wardaddy]

man...those pursed lips and intense Brokeback Mountain stare is just too much

shame....he is one half Mississippian...like me

comes from an interesting but extremely dysfunctional family though

[Califreak]

I only rarely watch for analytic reasons.

Their spin cycle is at times quite a thing to behold.

I either laugh out loud or blood shoots out of my eyes.

[wardaddy]

pals:

[GVnana]

Obama’s feelings must be hurt.

[Pinkbell]

[AmericanInTokyo]

Its disintegrating before their very eyes.

Only one year out from the arrogant, jaw-in-the-air speech in cold Chicago.

They deserve it.

Arrogance is the Downfall of a Great Number of Highly Placed Individuals. It will be no different for THIS current crowd in there. Watch for them to really start pulling some illegal, Nixonian type impeachable tricks now.

[eaglestar]

These are my top 3 worst.

1) Campbell Brown

2) Jack Cafferty

3) Rick Sanchez

[Jabba the Nutt]

I don't think it's the people. Blitzer, Cooper and King aren't bad at their jobs. I think the problem is content. What if CNN went from being 'the most trusted name in news' to a 'we're holding them accountable' news operation.

Uncover the truth, no matter who it helps or hurts. Take economic reporting, tell the truth. Expose the insanity of the Obama administration's phony numbers. Expose the real unemployment rate. Report on when and how jobs were created in American History.

Of course, this means giving up liberal bias. Sometimes, 'we hold them accountable' will help liberals (mostly it won't) and sometimes it would hurt conservatives.

Just imagine honest reporting on any number of issues; race, guns, crime, foreign policy, Afghan and Iraq Wars.

I'd watch the 'we hold them accountable' news network.

[bustinchops]

Mine would be Rick Sanchez, then Larry King, then Campbell Brown. I’ve watched those three many 2-3 times each. I would never watch again. I don’t even know who Cafferty is.