Establishment mouthpiece CNN – an integral part of both the Russiagate hoax and the Hunter Biden laptop coverup, has dropped to just 444,000 average primetime viewers between January 16 and January 22, according to Nielsen.
Of those, just 93,000 were in the all-important 25-54 news demographic.
This is the first time since May of 2014 that the network has failed to reach 450,000 viewers, The Wrap reports.
By comparison, during the same period Fox News drew 1.4 million viewers and 176,000 in the demo while MSNBC notched 629,000 total viewers and 69,000 in the demo. In primetime, Fox News had 2 million viewers, 256,000 in the demo and MSNBC had 943,000 viewers and 91,000 in the demo.
Some especially troublesome news out of this week’s Nielsen numbers is that Licht’s primary programming move, “CNN This Morning,” also suffered the lowest week since its launch just three months ago. It averaged just 331,000 viewers while “Fox & Friends” had nearly 1 million and “Morning Joe” drew 760,000. -The Wrap
As Glenn Greenwald notes, CNN’s downfall is “so well-deserved and good for the country.”
Just look at this alone:
Everyone who works at CNN knows it spread an outright lie before the 2020 election: the Biden laptop was "Russian disinformation."
Not one ever told their audience it was false or they spread it, let alone apologized for it:https://t.co/kjLH42pIZN
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) January 30, 2023
According to CNN insiders, hosts of the network’s rebooted morning show, Don Lemon, Poppy Harlow and Kaitlan Collins, “seem to be growing frustrated” over the direction of the network.
“The show can’t decide strategically what exactly it is, so it’s trying to be everything which can create whiplash for a viewer when segments seem off-brand in tonality,” said one insider. “The audience for morning news on network TV is different than the cable news audience and since we’re not gaining new viewers we definitely need to retain our legacy ones.”
More on the network’s reputational suicide from Greenwald:
As with the lie about the laptop being "Russian disinformation" – it was so obvious at the time: I quit the Intercept because they spread it and wouldn't let me write about it – *not one* media outlet that used Hamilton68 to shape "news" has acknowledged Taibbi's reporting.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) January 30, 2023
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CNN has to be bleeding money. I hope they slide down the sewer never to be resurrected.
These days major media companies don’t have to make money – or even break even. They can run at a loss forever. They’re a known expense – the cost of doing business for the a mega corp and/or the government (so intertwined that no one knows where the company stops and the government starts). CNN is owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warner_Bros._Discovery Warner could operate CNN at a loss just to push their social and corporate agenda, but don’t discount the possibility of direct subsidy by the Military Industrial Complex. That black budget is big.
The Bezos Post is even worse. Amazon Web Services does cloud storage for multiple entities of the government – including the CIA. They won’t print anything important that goes against what the government wants. They know where their bread is buttered.
And so on, and so on.
“don’t have to make money”
Because they are not businesses, but influence operations. They’re subsidized.
It is next to impossible to audit .gov’s off budget activities.
It’ll be next to impossible to destroy them too, but it has to be done.
CIA, NSA, FBI, State Department and Justice Department have deep pockets. CNN won’t be short even one red cent.
All that money does no good if barely anyone is watching.
Pretty soon all that now unbacked petro fiat…may be taking a haircut similar to the first day at Parris Island.
So, basically CNN’s ratings are just below reruns of Barnaby Jones.
Maybe it was a slow week at the airports.
BTW, “Barnaby” was #1 in the Nielsons for several years.
And a QM Production.
And a cool theme song…..
He’ll always be Jed to me! Buddy Ebson was a national treasure.
Hey!…….
the guy i watch play call of duty on youtube gets more views
“ratings hit new lows”
Why is it still here at all?
To continue gas lighting people in airports, train stations, and other opportune mass propaganda locations.
cnn is also huge overseas —
It used to be that VOA was big overseas.
just b4 i came back over here to tbp i was on another news site —
they posted that cnn is going to air bill maher’s show on friday nights —
I rid myself of cable in 2016 best decision ever . I now have a tv antenna like 1975. My phone is my internet .
CNN is the mockery of actual television journalism.
The CBC sucks worse than CNN now as a Crown apparatus of the Totalitarian Trudope regime.
Who here remembers Knowlton Nash? When Canaydian teevee wuz great, eh.
You could’ve left it “TV is a mockery of journalism.”
Should have, you mean. Merci.
Auntie goes off on tangents occasionally.
CNN’s ratings hit all time low. To fix the problem CNN fired everybody and then doubled down on liberal spin, deception and lies to fix the problem!!!!
close the doors. go home. nobody wants your bullshit and lies save the few mentally ill that have agreed with you all along.