CNN has reacted very badly to the political rise of President Trump, promulgating fake news and presenting an echo chamber of negative commentary. Now, the struggling news channel appears to be trying to manipulate the ratings.
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Even if it’s not the originator of the Fake News model that now largely defines the MSM, CNN has certainly perfected it. This past week, the situation seemed to rise to a shocking new level with the CNN programs that followed President Trump’s prime time address to the nation on Afghanistan on Monday and his 80 minute speech Tuesday night to a campaign-style rally in Phoenix. On Tuesday, for example, CNN host Don Lemon followed Trump’s speech with a live appearance by the channel’s new contributor James Clapper, former director of National Intelligence in the Obama Administration. Putting it rather politely in an article on Wednesday, CNN said that Clapper:
. . . questioned President Donald Trump's fitness for office. “I really question his ability to be – his fitness to be – in this office, and I also am beginning to wonder about his motivation for it.”
Another queer loon
CNN is engaged in a desperate ratings war of attrition with its competitors the Fox News Channel (FNC) and MSNBC. In the new era of Trump, CNN, like MSNBC, has been trying to gain traction by being the go-to source for the Resistance and the Never Trumpers (RINOs who have opposed Trump from the onset of his campaign).
For CNN, the ratings battle has not been going well. On August 1, 2017, A.J. Katz, one of the leading and most objective analysts of the TV news business including the ratings, wrote in TVNewser:
It was a wild month in U.S. politics, and CNN had a tough time keeping up with the competition from a ratings perspective.
For July 2017, CNN was minus 48 percent in total prime time viewers, minus 29 percent in total day viewers, minus 48 in the prime-time demo, and minus 28 percent in the total day demo versus July 2016.
Because analysis of TV ratings is both a science and an art aiming at a moving target, CNN put out a “spin city” news release insisting that it beat MSNBC during the month of July 2017, “CNN #2 in Total Day in July Among [Viewers] 25-54.”
Adding Fake Ratings to Fake News?
Analyzing the cable news ratings for Monday August 21, the night of President Trump’s 9 P.M. E.D.T. speech to the nation – his first address as the commander-in-chief in prime time – I observed a strange anomaly which is being reported here exclusively. First, it should be noted that the viewers of cable news that evening were at least twice as numerous as the typical number for a weekday night because of the major public interest in the president’s address. This benefited all three news channels. The ratings are measured, as they always have been, by the Nielsen Company. Nielsen relies on the channels and networks to provide their schedules, including identifying the programs that aired during a certain time of the day or night.
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Even if it’s not the originator of the Fake News model that now largely defines the MSM, CNN has certainly perfected it. This past week, the situation seemed to rise to a shocking new level with the CNN programs that followed President Trump’s prime time address to the nation on Afghanistan on Monday and his 80 minute speech Tuesday night to a campaign-style rally in Phoenix. On Tuesday, for example, CNN host Don Lemon followed Trump’s speech with a live appearance by the channel’s new contributor James Clapper, former director of National Intelligence in the Obama Administration. Putting it rather politely in an article on Wednesday, CNN said that Clapper:
. . . questioned President Donald Trump's fitness for office. “I really question his ability to be – his fitness to be – in this office, and I also am beginning to wonder about his motivation for it.”
Another queer loon
CNN is engaged in a desperate ratings war of attrition with its competitors the Fox News Channel (FNC) and MSNBC. In the new era of Trump, CNN, like MSNBC, has been trying to gain traction by being the go-to source for the Resistance and the Never Trumpers (RINOs who have opposed Trump from the onset of his campaign).
For CNN, the ratings battle has not been going well. On August 1, 2017, A.J. Katz, one of the leading and most objective analysts of the TV news business including the ratings, wrote in TVNewser:
It was a wild month in U.S. politics, and CNN had a tough time keeping up with the competition from a ratings perspective.
For July 2017, CNN was minus 48 percent in total prime time viewers, minus 29 percent in total day viewers, minus 48 in the prime-time demo, and minus 28 percent in the total day demo versus July 2016.
Because analysis of TV ratings is both a science and an art aiming at a moving target, CNN put out a “spin city” news release insisting that it beat MSNBC during the month of July 2017, “CNN #2 in Total Day in July Among [Viewers] 25-54.”
Adding Fake Ratings to Fake News?
Analyzing the cable news ratings for Monday August 21, the night of President Trump’s 9 P.M. E.D.T. speech to the nation – his first address as the commander-in-chief in prime time – I observed a strange anomaly which is being reported here exclusively. First, it should be noted that the viewers of cable news that evening were at least twice as numerous as the typical number for a weekday night because of the major public interest in the president’s address. This benefited all three news channels. The ratings are measured, as they always have been, by the Nielsen Company. Nielsen relies on the channels and networks to provide their schedules, including identifying the programs that aired during a certain time of the day or night.
