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Here's another one: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media ... 08466.html

Stories aren't the only thing that high-profile studio anchors at CNN apparently know how to break. Judging by the latest TV ratings, they also seem to be uncannily successful at destroying the loyalty of viewers.

Figures from ratings agency Nielsen show that America's most famous rolling news brand has just experienced its worst month for almost 20 years, parting company with more than 50 per cent of its audience in 12 months.

This is exactly the point I made.....you diss your viewership and they vote with their feet. It is natural for an entity as self-centered and self-promotional as any major cable newsroom to respond by implying that the deserting viewers are irrelevant, which is the subject of the OP's article, never mind that they represent a significant chunk of that demographic in which advertisers (who pay newsroom superstars' inflated salaries) are most interested. That speaks to simply atrocious business sense. I even saw a webpage from notoriously hardcore leftist apologists NewsCorpse.com criticizing CNN for being too conservative ( ), blaming CNN's diminishing viewership on their trying too hard to emulate Fox News............. .......just another example of leftist insanity and denial.

Anyway, the first lesson of digging when you find yourself in a hole is you stop digging. This is not a lesson CNN has learned. Instead, they hired Piers Morgan.....as if he were a serious newsman.

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BillT wrote:

The Annoyed Man wrote:http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/ ... cnn/645496
John King laments: Fewer watching CNN
May 23, 2012 -- 1:29 PM

The viewer plunge at CNN, which just recorded its lowest ratings in 20 years, is presenting a “challenge” to the Cable News Network to fight back against scrappier and more provocative cable networks, according to network anchor John King.

In a revealing moment at the annual Cable Show, this year in Boston, C-SPAN’s Steve Scully, hosting a media panel, asked King: “Who’s your audience John King, who’s watching CNN?” King, to laughter, fessed, “Well, fewer people at the moment, which is part of our challenge. And you can laugh all you want. It’s a challenge.”

The shrinking viewership is exactly because of the kind of reporting in the OP's linked article.

If that were true then Fox News would have been forced off the air years ago. They (Fox) have no competition and have a monopoly on the far right wing viewership. CNN has a plethora of legitimate news competition. I seriously doubt CNN has lost any viewers to Fox! I watch and read all major US networks and websites and a few international ones as well to get a more balanced view of the world. I'll have to admit there's not another network like Fox!!!

http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2012/0 ... 12/136797/

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/in-2q-rating ... -over-cnn/

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-f ... ews-275415

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News_C ... _reception

http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2008/05/0 ... msnbc-too/

http://www.thewrap.com/tv/article/fox-n ... -top-34959

I could go on. I'm not saying that FoxNews is perfect. In fact, Sheppard Smith is any annoying twerp who is anything but a conservative. And I don't like the way they sensationalize stories.......anymore that I dislike when the other networks do it too. BUT.....Fox is on top in the ratings. That's just a fact, and everyone in the industry acknowledges it. That may not matter to you personally. But I can tell that it does matter to a lot of people, and the reason it matters is because FoxNews's presentation of the news appeals to a broader majority of news watchers than CNN, or the other "also rans." CNN used to be on top, and Fox didn't. The roles are reversed. A large part of the viewing public—not by any means a majority, but a significant part—are white republicans........kinda like me. They don't take kindly to being dismissed by a network whose editorial stance is not in step with their own. Thus, CNN's viewership is down. Fox's is higher. There's a reason. When a news outlet, regardless of who it is, dismisses a large group of news-watchers as irrelevant, they slit their own throat. It shows in their numbers. You don't have to believe the numbers, but they are there for anyone who wants to look at them.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/ ... cnn/645496
John King laments: Fewer watching CNN
May 23, 2012 -- 1:29 PM

The viewer plunge at CNN, which just recorded its lowest ratings in 20 years, is presenting a “challenge” to the Cable News Network to fight back against scrappier and more provocative cable networks, according to network anchor John King.

In a revealing moment at the annual Cable Show, this year in Boston, C-SPAN’s Steve Scully, hosting a media panel, asked King: “Who’s your audience John King, who’s watching CNN?” King, to laughter, fessed, “Well, fewer people at the moment, which is part of our challenge. And you can laugh all you want. It’s a challenge.”

The shrinking viewership is exactly because of the kind of reporting in the OP's linked article.

Heartland Patriot wrote:

The Annoyed Man wrote:

texanron wrote:

G26ster wrote:

BillT wrote:There are a lot of people in denial on this forum. Don't forget the last election!

Of course not. Why would I forget that the House completely changed to a Republican majority, and the Senate also now has less Democrats than before the "last election." Thanks for the reminder.

Who is that guy, anyway?

Someone who seems just so much cooler and smarter than I am, me being a un-cool conservative Republican white guy and all...

Oh, and don't forget that you're dying too.

texanron wrote:

G26ster wrote:

BillT wrote:There are a lot of people in denial on this forum. Don't forget the last election!

Of course not. Why would I forget that the House completely changed to a Republican majority, and the Senate also now has less Democrats than before the "last election." Thanks for the reminder.

Who is that guy, anyway?

Mostly white + 1/32 Javanese, registered republican but self-identify as "conservative" with a populist streak, evangelical Christian, currently 59 and will be 60 in October.

None of this matters to anyone except liberals, nor should it.

Quoting the article:

"The Republicans' problem is their voters are white, aging and dying off," said David Bositis, a senior research associate at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, who studies minority political engagement.

"There will come a time when they suffer catastrophic losses with the realization of the population changes."

Over the next several generations, the wave of minority voters -- who, according to U.S. Census figures released this week, now represent more than half of the nation's population born in the past year -- will become more of a power base in places like Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia. That hold will extend across the Southwest all the way to California, experts say.

The problem with this assumption is that many of those minorities are socially conservative, and that as they age and acquire a vested interest in the stability and financial health of the nation, they will likely become politically conservative on their own without any prompting from aging white boys. Also, many of them, like Cubans for instance, fled countries where anti-capitalism and its attendent absence of personal freedoms drove them out. They are not likely to surrender their salvation to the same kind of enforced income redistribution and nanny statism that they fled in their homelands.

I actually have great hope for conservatism.