March 30th, 2010 _The Carnage Continues at CNN_ (http://realclearpolitics.blogs.time.com/2010/03/30/the-carnage-continues-at-cnn/) Posted by Tom Bevan _Bill Carter_ (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/30/business/media/30cnn.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1269950584-NiM/J5UkUTxGG7MygHaImw) of the New York Times: CNN continued what has become a precipitous decline in ratings for its prime-time programs in the first quarter of 2010, with its main hosts losing almost half their viewers in a year. The trend in news ratings for the first three months of this year is all up for one network, the Fox News Channel, which enjoyed its best quarter ever in ratings, and down for both MSNBC and CNN. CNN had a slightly worse quarter in the fourth quarter of 2009, but the last three months have included compelling news events, like the _earthquake in Haiti_ (http://www.nytimes.com/info/haiti-earthquake-2010/?inline=nyt-classifier) and the battle over health care, and CNN, which emphasizes its hard news coverage, was apparently unable to benefit. The losses at CNN continued a pattern in place for much of the last year, as the network trailed its competitors in every prime-time hour. (CNN still easily beats MSNBC in the daytime hours, but those are less lucrative in advertising money, and both networks are far behind Fox News at all hours.)
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