From the You-Reap-What-You-Sow Dept: CNN drops....

[ChairOne]

"CNN posted steep viewer losses during the month of February, slipping 21% in primetime and 16% overall, according to Nielsen Media Research.

Fox News was the only cable news network to see gains in primetime during February and beat all other cable news outlets combined for the sixth straight month."

http://www.variety.com/VR1117918742.html

Serves em right - the goddammotherfucking fuckwipes.

In other news, the stupidification of America nears completion, as fox news completes its take over of cable "news".

[TrueAmerican]

1. Also

The American people will be duped in believing CNN is losing ratings is because they are too liberal.

[bullimiami]

7. the american "people" have not apparently been duped.

hence the dropoff in cnns viewership.

there are enough rabid freaks to keep fox in business but the vast majority wont accept it. when cnn and the other so called news organizations get "it" and refind a spine and some integrity they will also find their ratings going up.

[ChairOne]

9. Maybe you missed the simultaneous rise in Fox viewership? /eom

[w4rma]

2. AOL *really* wants to promote Republicans and fake scandals

about celebreties instead of reporting the news, tho.

I hope AOL-Time Warner drops to the very bottom, because I do not expect AOL to change their beliefs about promoting their BS agenda.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

4. I pray for AOL/Time Warner's bankruptcy. So be it thousands...

of people loose their jobs. I don't care. It's more important that Time/Warner goes under.

[ObaMania]

20. I'm with you...

.. I live in Northern Virginia, six miles from AOL headquarters. Nothing would make me happier than to see some of the repuke redneck motherf@#ker neighbors of mine lose their jobs and have to put their mcMansions on the market.

:smoke:

[babylonsister]

3. We SO need a network devoted to

telling the truth, be it from dems or repugs. Without any agendas or political affiliations, without twisting the facts or not reporting them. Wasn't news more balanced 20, even 10 years ago? :shrug:

[tridim]

5. Well duh.. I used to watch CNN,

Until they turned into Faux-lite and started whoring for BushCo. I hope CNN crashes and burns, and then Ted Turner can move in and buy it for a song.

[babylonsister]

13. What happens if a wealthy

neo-con or evangelical buys it? Doesn't even bear thinking about.:scared:

[Mr_Spock]

6. CNN - see why copying another network doesn't work?

Now get back to reporting and INVESTIGATING real news. Losers.

[Guaranteed]

14. It's much like our Democratic leadership, isn't it?

Hilarious. :)

[Mr_Spock]

17. Not Dean baby, not Dean!

I just heard a re-run of Randi with Dean as a guest - he's not afraid of questions and he has meaningful answers.

[dbt]

8. And this Real Life Parable will probably go right over

the pointy little heads of the DLC.

:evilgrin:

[fooj]

10. Hey Wolfie...you sold your soul and it STILL DOESN"T MATTER!

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Serves CNN right- they are a bunch of propaganda pantywastes!

[Chipper Chat]

11. Serves CNN right for trying to be "Fox Lite."

My TV screen is lucky to be alive, as on several occasions I've almost tossed a plate or bottle through it in anger over a comment by Woodruff, Novak, or Brown.
Fox's takeover is real. Everywhere I go it's on: today at the auto repair shop dimwitted customer eyes were hanging on every word from "Eydie and Brian." I work part-time at a hotel and the redneck truck drivers are always changing the channel in the lobby TV to Fox.
In fairness to Fox (too bad they aren't!), their programming flows, they have great graphics, & nice chicks (sorry but I'm a dude). And is it just me, or have they mellowed just a little lately? - at least I detect this. Colmes ate Coulter for lunch the other day, and Neil Cavuto is sounding more reasonable. I suppose when they totally destroy CNN they will go back to their nasty side again - who knows?

[tinonedown]

12. Regardless what CNN did, Fox still rose in viewership

According to this article. What the heck happened to my (our!) country?! It makes me sick to my stomach. In the end it doesn't matter. I won't watch any of the cable news programs. They can track me watching the Discovery channel 24/7 while I get my news online, here and elsewhere.

[LynnTheDem]

18. Faux Moos is nothing. The local station in NY City has higher viewership

than Faux Moos.

And compared to the networks, the "best" of Faux Moos comes in dead last over the worst of the networks by a landslide.

Let em beat out all the cables; cable is nothing. :)

The O'Reilly Factor is the best-rated show on Fox, with about 2 million viewers a night. CBS Evening News , the least-watched broadcast network evening news show, routinely gets four or five times as big an audience, and that's seen as a ratings disaster.

Fox 's flagship news show, Special Report with Brit Hume, gets a million viewers on a good night -a few thousand more than the local newscast of New York City's WNBC.

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2005

[Indiana_Dem]

15. The way i interpret this is:

Most people are tired of Big Brother-like news so they have just quit watching any news at all. The results might be misleading. Maybe fewer people now watch ANY network news shows which give a false-positive rise in the percentage of Fox viewers as opposed to other networks.

Hope that makes sense. I read between the lines too much.

I also wonder if they factor in c-span at all? I watch that more than anything else, especially Washington Journal. Lately, I've caught Ron Reagan on msnbc and I like to watch him. I tune in a few minutes every day to cnbc to see what the markets look like then I move on. That's about all I've watched for awhile news-wise.

[SharonAnn]

21. Those of us who are interested in NEWS, know we won't find it on CNN.

I can remember (and it wasn't that long ago) when I used to have CNN Headline News on all day while I was working. They had news from around the world, real news! Things like political campaigns and elections in European countries with brief analysis of each party's keypositions and analysis of what it meant that the polls showed this or that.

Now we know that there isn't any news outside the United States unless it's something that directly involves the U.S. So they've saved all that money they had spent on real reporters and remote locations to spend it on Info-Tainment!

[Selatius]

16. FOX wins because they appeal to our baser instincts

Let's talk about Michael Jackson and politicians trading insults with each other over the airwaves instead of talking about the war, education, the environment, health care, and other serious, fundamental issues. I think the reason why they get more and more viewers is because they aren't afraid to have an opinion and stick to it unlike CNN, which whitewashes everything down to a he-said, she-said chirade in an attempt to appear neutral even if one side was running on facts while the other was running on lies.

[UTUSN]

19. Yeah, It's a Victory for Us for Faux to Win n/t

[ChairOne]

22. Wow. You don't hear that everyday... /eom