This is from an article on CNN about why they have terrible ratings:
"In the wake of the exit of longtime chief Jeff Zucker, who led the network to ratings heights during the tumultuous Trump White House years but was fired in early 2022 after failing to disclose a romantic relationship with a longtime lieutenant, CNN’s viewership has slipped considerably.
Cable news ratings across the board have shrunk in recent years. With Trump out of office, audiences are no longer consuming as much cable news." (That is leftist/liberal audiences. It is not true for conservative audiences)
They had Trump to villanize and they pushed big bad boogeyman to the suckers who ate it up like pigs at the trough and now can't get it out of their head.
Still wanting to blame their failure on someone else, the new CEO, Mark Thompson admits that CNN takes sides in its news programming. It's not that programs like Maria Bartiromo or Sean Hannity don't take sides. But they tell you right up front who they are while CNN lies and presents the leftist side as unbiased with no disclaimer. That should be illegal IMO, no matter what network.
The network revamped its prime time lineup last fall, but the new slate has also had trouble resonating with audiences. Thompson, in an interview with The Wall Street Journal last month, was asked about CNN’s poor performance in the ratings.
“There are some viewers out there who simply don’t want to hear the other side, don’t want to hear it, and feel much more comfortable in an environment where typically they’re hearing people whose opinions are very close to their own,” Thompson said.
"In the wake of the exit of longtime chief Jeff Zucker, who led the network to ratings heights during the tumultuous Trump White House years but was fired in early 2022 after failing to disclose a romantic relationship with a longtime lieutenant, CNN’s viewership has slipped considerably.
Cable news ratings across the board have shrunk in recent years. With Trump out of office, audiences are no longer consuming as much cable news." (That is leftist/liberal audiences. It is not true for conservative audiences)
They had Trump to villanize and they pushed big bad boogeyman to the suckers who ate it up like pigs at the trough and now can't get it out of their head.
Still wanting to blame their failure on someone else, the new CEO, Mark Thompson admits that CNN takes sides in its news programming. It's not that programs like Maria Bartiromo or Sean Hannity don't take sides. But they tell you right up front who they are while CNN lies and presents the leftist side as unbiased with no disclaimer. That should be illegal IMO, no matter what network.
The network revamped its prime time lineup last fall, but the new slate has also had trouble resonating with audiences. Thompson, in an interview with The Wall Street Journal last month, was asked about CNN’s poor performance in the ratings.
“There are some viewers out there who simply don’t want to hear the other side, don’t want to hear it, and feel much more comfortable in an environment where typically they’re hearing people whose opinions are very close to their own,” Thompson said.
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