CNN's ratings continue to crash and crash hard.
The network now draws under 400,000 viewers during primetime, it's lowest ratings in over 20 years.
It's not that complicated to figure out why... young people are not getting their news from the major news outlets any more. In addition, it doesn't help that many feel CNN has been co-opted by various corporate and political interests and curtails its news coverage so as to not offend said sponsors.
When was the last time CNN broke a story? They still have reach when it comes to foreign stories (who surprisingly, wink wink, don't really contribute to CNN's fiscal growth), but I can't for the life of me remember any story over the past five years that originated or was exclusive to CNN.
That said, many feel that Fox News is just as co-opted as CNN and it still brings in over 1.6 million viewers during primetime.
I attribute this to the fact that Fox is really the only right-wing mainstream media outlet in the US. CNN on the other hand has plenty of competition with ABC, MSNBC, CNBC, NBC, and CBS.
Either way, start BREAKING the news and your ratings will go up. Pretty simple really.
The network now draws under 400,000 viewers during primetime, it's lowest ratings in over 20 years.
It's not that complicated to figure out why... young people are not getting their news from the major news outlets any more. In addition, it doesn't help that many feel CNN has been co-opted by various corporate and political interests and curtails its news coverage so as to not offend said sponsors.
When was the last time CNN broke a story? They still have reach when it comes to foreign stories (who surprisingly, wink wink, don't really contribute to CNN's fiscal growth), but I can't for the life of me remember any story over the past five years that originated or was exclusive to CNN.
That said, many feel that Fox News is just as co-opted as CNN and it still brings in over 1.6 million viewers during primetime.
I attribute this to the fact that Fox is really the only right-wing mainstream media outlet in the US. CNN on the other hand has plenty of competition with ABC, MSNBC, CNBC, NBC, and CBS.
Either way, start BREAKING the news and your ratings will go up. Pretty simple really.
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