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CNN suffered a humiliating ratings slump during Friday night's prime time spot as it was beaten by fledgling rival Newsmax for the first time. The cable channel was trounced by the conservative station in every slot from 8pm to 11pm. Star anchor Anderson Cooper mustered just 447,000 viewers for his flagship 360 show - 20,000 less than Eric Bolling, formerly of Fox News. Cooper's new Friday night show at 9pm, The Whole Story With Anderson Cooper, fell even wider of the mark with 293,000 tuning in. That compares to 325,000 who watched Chris Plante, an ex-Pentagon Correspondent for CNN, on...

The highly classified leaked Pentagon documents posted to social media offer a pessimistic US viewpoint about the state of the war in Ukraine, highlighting weaknesses in Ukraine’s weaponry and air defenses and predicting a stalemate in the war for months to come. The documents, which appear to date from February and March, detail many of Ukraine’s perceived military shortfalls as Kyiv prepares for a spring counteroffensive against Russia. Several of the classified documents warn that Ukraine’s medium-range air defenses to protect front-line troops will be “completely reduced by May 23,” suggesting Russia could soon have aerial superiority and Ukraine could...

The Biden administration is preparing to step up the kind of weaponry it is offering Ukraine by sending advanced, long-range rocket systems that are now the top request from Ukrainian officials, multiple officials say. The administration is leaning toward sending the systems as part of a larger package of military and security assistance to Ukraine, which could be announced as soon as next week.

Ginni Thomas, the courageous wife of US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, reportedly pushed Arizona legislators to ensure that Arizona’s 2020 election was audited and that their electoral votes went to the rightful winner. This was the latest leak by Liz Cheney’s sham Jan. 6 Committee to the press. New emails from the days following the rigged and stolen 2020 election reveal the Republican effort to guarantee election integrity, security, and transparency. The Guardian reported, Thomas wrote: “Please stand strong in the face of political and media pressure. Please reflect on the awesome authority granted to you by our constitution....

On Thursday – just hours after approving another $40 billion in US taxpayer dollars for Ukraine – the US Senate blocked a bipartisan $48 billion aid package for restaurants, gyms, and other small businesses that have been struggling in Biden’s post-lockdown economy. Presumably, they can’t launder that money as easily as shuffling it off to Ukraine, so American business owners get the shaft yet again from its traitorous elected officials. In other words, just another day in the DC Swamp… Needing 60 votes to move forward, the Senators killed the package with a 52-43 vote. Five Senators refrained from casting...

(CNN)Ukrainian forces have so far managed to stave off Russian ground forces massed less than 20 miles north of the embattled capital Kyiv -- but though they've defied US intelligence predictions that the city would likely fall within one to four days of a full-scale Russian assault, US officials warn that Russian President Vladimir Putin could imminently increase the intensity of the attack. Stiffer than expected Ukrainian resistance and Russia's own logistical missteps have bogged down Russia's advance, US and western officials say, sparking a fragile optimism. The US has also continued sharing downgraded intelligence with the Ukrainians, including about...

Allison Gollust, the chief marketing officer at CNN, has resigned from the network following a WarnerMedia investigation into “issues associated with Chris Cuomo and former Governor Andrew Cuomo,” according to a memo from Jason Kilar, the company’s CEO. -snip- Based on interviews of more than 40 individuals and a review of over 100,000 texts and emails, the investigation found violations of Company policies, including CNN’s News Standards and Practices, by Jeff Zucker, Allison Gollust, and Chris Cuomo.”

CNN President Jeff Zucker and his girlfriend Allison Gollust advised former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on how to handle the COVID-19 crisis and even gave him 'talking points' on how to spar with President Donald Trump, according to new reports which suggest their secret affair was not the only reason Zucker was ousted from the network this week. According to sources cited by Rolling Stone on Thursday, the pair breached journalism ethics to help Cuomo behind the scenes in the same way that his younger brother Chris did. -snip- An ongoing investigation at CNN that was focused on Chris's...

Speaking to CNBC Friday morning in separate interviews, John Stankey and David Zaslav push back on claims of John Malone's involvement. AT&T CEO John Stankey, who currently oversees WarnerMedia and CNN, and Discovery CEO David Zaslav, who will assume oversight of WarnerMedia and CNN in just a few months, on Friday were grilled about former CNN chief Jeff Zucker’s exit. -snip- both Stankey and Zaslav were pressed on reporting from multiple outlets that said Discovery board member John Malone — who has been critical of Zucker’s programming strategy at CNN — pressed the company to take action. “None of us...

TIMBER. CNN’s ratings continue to drop as their total day viewership is down 70%. Nielsen Media Research reports CNN’s primetime viewers at the beginning of the year was roughly around 798,000 people and 530,000 total day viewers. Now the network is seeing no more than 229,000 primetime viewers with 152,000 total day viewers. Translation: That’s pretty awful. -snip- FOX ratings, though significantly higher, also continue to feel the blow of lower viewership after they hurt themselves during the election. With more outlets from Newsmax to Nextstar’s new partnership with NewsNation Now the competition for national cable news outlets is growing

CNN has seen ratings plummet since former President Donald Trump left the White House, according to a Fox News report on Nielsen Media Research data. The network averaged 2.5 million primetime viewers between the day after the election— November 4, 2020 — and Inauguration Day on January 20, 2021, Fox News reported. Since President Joe Biden was sworn in, however, those numbers have dropped dramatically. An average of 1.6 million viewers tuned in during primetime hours between January 21 and March 15, Fox News said. That's a downturn of 36% since Biden took office. Primetime viewers also ditched CNN in...

The former chief of staff to ex-President Donald Trump on Saturday pushed back against his former boss' recent attempt to whitewash the history of the January 6 Capitol riot. Mick Mulvaney, who stepped down as Trump's special envoy to Northern Ireland after the insurrection, called Trump's comments that his supporters were "hugging and kissing" police officers and posed "zero threat," despite widespread violence, "manifestly false." "I was surprised to hear the President say that. Clearly there were people who were behaving themselves, and then there were people who absolutely were not, but to come out and say that everyone was...

CNN is losing around a million viewers on average each night since President Donald Trump left office - and is down nearly 50% in the key 24-54 age group, a report said on Thursday. The cable news channel had averaged 2.5 million prime-time viewers each night from November 4 through Inauguration Day on January 20, according to a Fox News analysis of Nielsen data. But data shows the network averaged only 1.6 million total prime-time viewers from January 21, the day after the inauguration of President Joe Biden, through March 15, according to the report. CNN's overall prime-time viewership, from...

CNN ratings have collapsed by almost 60% since President Trump left the White House almost 2 months ago. Here are the CNN post-inauguration ratings drops as of Monday 3/15/2021 compared to Monday 1/18/2021 according to Nielsen: Lemon -60% Tapper -59% Cuomo -58% Blitzer -57% Burnett -56% Cooper -55% For comparison purposes, here are some other ratings drops for the same time period: Mad Cow -26% Tucker Carlson -8% Laura Ingraham -6% Sean Hannity -5%

Jason Kilar, the CEO of CNN's parent company WarnerMedia, has apologized after he said at a conference that the COVID-19 pandemic is 'really good for ratings.' Kilar made his comments during his keynote address at Morgan Stanley's Technology, Media and Telecom Conference and apologized after he was called out on Twitter by the Wall Street Journal's Joe Flint. 'It turns out the pandemic is a pretty big part of the news cycle and that's not going away any time soon,' Kilar said during the conference. He continued: 'If you take a look at the ratings and the performance, it's going...

CNN ratings have collapsed by nearly 50% since President Trump left the White House almost a month ago. Here are the CNN post-inauguration ratings drops as of Monday 2/15/2021 compared to Monday 1/18/2021 according to Nielsen: Tapper -53% Cooper -50% Blitzer -50% Baldwin -50% Lemon -48% Burnett -48% Cuomo -44%

Analysis: Parting ways with the CNN news chief would put WarnerMedia in need of a new leader as news competitors have been making moves to expand. -snip- Spokespersons from CNN and WarnerMedia did not respond to queries seeking comment on Zucker’s status with the company. The Information and The Wall Street Journal previously reported on the potential for Zucker to leave CNN in coming months.

CNN appears to have altered a widely-seen photograph of Joe Biden with his young son to remove the logo of the Washington Redskins. The Democratic nominee and former vice president initially shared the photo in June to commemorate Father's Day.

Hillary Clinton's nearly 66 million votes in the 2016 election weren't enough to defeat Donald Trump. But just over 0.0001% of that could end Trump's presidency. That's the reality of what Trump faces if he is formally impeached by the House of Representatives later this week, as is expected, prompting a removal trial in the Senate. In such a trial, the Constitution simply requires two-thirds of the Senate, in this case 67 senators, to vote to convict and remove -- then it's goodbye Trump. Trump's fate lies in the hands of 20 GOP senators -- the number needed to join...

CNN is pushing a story that compares ICE to Nazis, citing a Jewish woman who believes that deporting illegal immigrants is similar to actions the Nazis took during the Holocaust. In a tweet on Thursday, CNN wrote, “A Jewish woman heard an undocumented immigrant and her two daughters were on the run from ICE. Driven by thoughts of the Holocaust, she risked her own comfort to offer them shelter.” @CNN A Jewish woman heard an undocumented immigrant and her two daughters were on the run from ICE. Driven by thoughts of the Holocaust, she risked her own comfort to offer...