Judiciary Report - CNN Seeing Low Numbers

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CNN Seeing Low Numbers

June 12. 2007

A follow up on the May 31, 2007 article titled “CNN: Careless News Network,” where I wrote of said network's gaffes and propaganda pieces.

In an article published yesterday, Time Warner CEO Bob Parsons bemoans the huge ratings hit their network CNN has taken.

Once again, that's what happens when you run a propaganda machine and not a news network.

Of course, they will attribute their losses to a "vast right wing conspiracy", but the fact of the matter is, a vast right wing conspiracy didn't make Wolf Blitzer blurt out "they're so black" while looking at Hurricane Katrina survivors. Nor did a vast right wing conspiracy take control of the newsticker on countless occasions, punching out grammatical errors, misspelled words, misspelled names, mislabel headlines and incorrect headlines.

The network doesn't exactly specialize in honesty and has offended many through its gaffes. One would like to think one can trust what a news outlet reports.

And let's not even talk about that bias...

"CNN's ratings have been on a steady decline since 2003, when it regularly got 689,000 households to tune in each day, to a low of 383,000 last year, according to Nielsen Media Research. For the first six months of this year, it's up to 431,000. Fox News, its younger, more conservative competitor, routinely trounces it in the ratings, often garnering twice the household ratings and recently besting CNN in prime time for key coverage of the presidential debates."

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