CNN Begs For Patience As Ratings Plummet; Don Lemon Terminated

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Fewer people than ever watch CNN. The numbers tell the story.

While Fox News averaged 2.9 million viewers in March and MSNBC averaged 1.14 million eyeballs, CNN lagged significantly with only 473,000 viewers, on average, tuning in to CNN for news coverage in March.

For some perspective, HGTV drew 472,000 viewers and the History Channel averaged 366,000 viewers in March.

https://www.thestreet.com/entertainment/cnn-low-march-ratings-plummet

About the same as the History Channel. Yikes!


Just saw this .........

Don Lemon Says He Was ‘Terminated’ by CNN​

https://www.theepochtimes.com/don-lemon-says-he-was-fired-by-cnn-effective-immediately_5217077.html
 

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Controversy isn't as entertaining as it was a few years ago.

Anyone remember Christine Chubbuck, the television news reporter who shot herself during a live broadcast? She was sick of being told to only go after sensational stories, and the bloodier, the better.

Her last words on-air were, "In keeping with Channel 40's policy of bringing you the latest in 'blood and guts', and in living color, you are going to see another first – attempted suicide."

It was a successful attempt.
 
Yes, I watched a 2016 biographical film about Christine. Very sad.

I had no idea bout CNN. I loved it during Desert Storm and I still turn there first for big breaking news. However, about ten years ago, I started noticing that they were almost as biased in one direction as Fox is in the other direction.

I just want the news and not stories where they are leaving out important details to try and please their fans. Tone of voice alone can be telling viewers what to think.

I was very glad when they lost the lawsuit with Nick Sandmann, the Catholic school kid they vilified with their words and the video they cut to make him look bad. I had watched the entire hour long video on YouTube and it was clear that Nick was just standing where he had been told to, with a self-conscious grin, while the "Native American Elder" harassed him. CNN just wanted to push the right buttons and didn't care what they did to a 16 year-old kid.

If I, a person usually on their side of the issues, got fed up with their slanted stories, so must a lot of other people. I long for the "just the facts" reporters of the past. I'm down to NPR and even it's been working an agenda pretty hard the last few years.
 
I used to like the CNN Headline news channel. They actually looped news every 1/2 hour and you could catch up on things. Now those two channels are nothing but partisan politics.

I like the CNN anchors Pepper mentioned and also Jim Acosta on the weekends.

Lemon can go whine someplace else. Not that I'm not a whiner myself.
 
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CNN was great when they just stuck to doing the news 24/7, but when they started doing evening political shows like the others, I stopped watching all those channels. If I want to know anything that's going on in Washington, I have a friend that's the head of the Atlanta field office who tells me what's going on. He's one of the guys in the protected Whistleblower's Program now. This country is a mess and as he says, not me, since the FBI and the DOJ lost so much of its credibility among the people, it may be time for him to leave also. He said he used to be proud to flash his FBI badge, but now, he keeps it well hidden and only shows it when necessary.
 
I feel CNN went down hill after Ted Turner sold it.
I am starting to dislike watching all news programs. They no longer have great journalists that deliver the news. (Especially world news)
 
Don Lemon's termination will have no impact on CNN ratings. They are already a failing network and that trend will continue...

Fox News, on the other hand, may have committed network suicide by terminating the number one rated commentator on cable news...that was a politcally motivated bone-head move!
 
Well, neither CNN or Fox News, are anything more than opinion oriented talking heads. There is very little "news"- just "news analysts". Fox has credibility issues, CNN lacks much of an audience. CNN's audience shrinks or grows as the news becomes more, or less dire, or sensational.
 
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Don Lemon's termination will have no impact on CNN ratings. They are already a failing network and that trend will continue...

Fox News, on the other hand, may have committed network suicide by terminating the number one rated commentator on cable news...that was a politcally motivated bone-head move!
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They said that when O'Reilly was fired. One of my best lessons in school-There is no Indispensible Man (or Woman).
 

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