The comparative Nielsen ratings between Fox and CNN is quite staggering. Well one thing's for sure... they better keep Don Lemon on for Jordan! Kurtz, Panelists Worry About Fate of CNN, ‘Last Bastion of Television Journalism’ [HDYT]v4hamzEyTrI[/HDYT] A great roundtable discussion ^
CNN lacks the splash and sizzle of Fox and MSNBC IMO. One thing that's really weird about Fox that I've noticed on trips to federal governmental agencies locally in the D.C. metro area is that in several waiting rooms FOX NEWS is always the station the TVs are tuned into, and if you try to turn to something else, it won't be long before someone from the info desk comes to change the channel back. Fox ratings IMO are little suspect. Not saying it's not the only cable news station on in Red States, but sometimes their ratings seem inflated to me.
This is the beginning of a great shakeout. CNN is not entertainment enough. It has to be a (news-entertainment) oriented show with pretty legs, shouting talking heads, outrageous personalities to survive with the low intelligence masses. Most people do not like pure journalism and analysis anymore.
They did a study and the avg. intelligence q of a Fox News watcher was like 80. Where avg. in general is 100. They just dumb it down and put in fluff and opinions. They consistently report things wrong. So I would never watch them regardless of whether Don Lemon was or was not on CNN. Viewers are fickle remember when the Today show was all the shizz now Matt Lauer can't catch a cab. :smt102 The person on top today may not be tomorrow.
the problem is with cnn is that they are more balanced and just report the story than msnbc and fox. yeah cnn has their pundits but they have left and right....then u decide.
Media plurality...the fight for viewership and money. And sadly, CNN and NPR are the only two news outlets (save C-SPAN) that actually deliver some merit of journalistic excellence. Not to knock networks like MSNBC, but if you're going to deliver the news, then deliver what people need to hear.
