Sometimes CNN is OK, but the emphasis has to be on the "some" part of sometimes. They can't count when they don't want to count. But the "they"isn't always the same people. CNN has too many of those and not enough of the others. Plus the high honchos can't seem to get their priorities right. About 10 days or even two weeks after everyone else had relegated the Haiti earthquake story to back burner, for instance, CNN was still treating it as front page news. Was it ? How relevant is Haiti for most Americans ? Sure, the quake was a great tragedy. But was it significantly worse than Chile ? Yet the Chile story came and went in a week, if that. Haiti was a top CNN story for a month. To what purpose ? To show solidarity with BHO ? Guess they can do that if they want to, but looks like viewers didn't agree. Billy ===================================================== In a message dated 3/30/2010 8:06:08 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
One reason is this: CNN said that "hundreds of people, at least dozens" were at the Tea Party Rally in Searchlight, Nevada. Get a load of the aerial picture: (http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/searchlight-tp.jpg) _CNN can't count._ (http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/searchlight-tp.jpg) David "A pleasant natural environment is a good - a luxury good, philosophical good, a moral goody-good, a good time for all. Whatever, we want it. If we want something, we should pay for it, with our labor or our cash. We shouldn't beg it, steal it, sit around wishing for it, or euchre the government into taking it by force."--P. J. O’Rourke On 3/30/2010 1:26 PM, [email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) wrote: 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.) _______________________________________________ Centroids mailing list: [email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) _http://radicalcentrism.com/mailman/listinfo/centroids_radicalcentrism.com_ (http://radicalcentrism.com/mailman/listinfo/centroids_radicalcentrism.com) Archives at _http://radicalcentrism.org/pipermail/centroids_radicalcentrism.com/_ (http://radicalcentrism.org/pipermail/centroids_radicalcentrism.com/) _______________________________________________ Centroids mailing list: [email protected] http://radicalcentrism.com/mailman/listinfo/centroids_radicalcentrism.com Archives at http://radicalcentrism.org/pipermail/centroids_radicalcentrism.com/
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