Saturday, June 15, 2019

Who pays for this crap?



The great mystery of our time……WHO FUNDS CNN?

I mean, I get that they have advertisers, and since I rarely watch the Goebbels network, I couldn’t say how many……but how much money can these advertisers continue to pour in to a losing proposition?  CNN’s viewership is now the lowest it has ever been, while the FOXnews viewership continues to increase, and even MSNBC is now ahead of CNN.  Two weeks ago CNNs’ total viewership had fallen by 33% over the same period from last year.  CNN has only one show in the top 20 of cable news program, and it IS number 20; Anderson Cooper 360.  Of all cable networks (Investigation Discovery, Food Network, TLC, A&E, FOX, MSNBC, etc. etc), CNN is FIFTEENTH in viewership, with less than 700,000 viewers in their target demographic of 25-54 year olds.  Seriously, MSNBC is ahead of CNN even though that networks flagship station, The Rachel Maddow show is one long litany of her fake intellectualism and nti-Trump conspiracy theories.  Think of it….Rachel Maddow alone beats out an entire other network…..that is some scary shit.

And unless you are Stevie Wonder, you can easily see the reasons.  CNN provided major media top cover for Hillary Clintons’ lawbreaking, during her 2016 campaign, despite growing evidence that she had, indeed broke the law.  CNN has gotten every major news story wrong for at least the last three years (Trump / Russia collusion, The Covington High School story, the Kavenaugh hearings, etc.).  From the primary season for the 2016  election they have been rabidly  anti-Trump, using their (thinly disguised) opinion hosts as “anchors”, to the point of complicity in providing Hillary some of the questions to be used in a debate.  These opinion hosts spend endless time blowing hot air about Trump, and anyone else that does not buy into the progressive agenda.  They loudly trumpet and support all progressive candidates and ideas, despite public opinion.  What is the most telling is that they ignore, and ignored, actual news, that has been documented I books and testimony, and written record, I order to push their agenda.

And all of that begs the question…..if more people are watching the third rerun of an idiot that murdered his wife and children in order to be with his lover, rather than listen to Cuomos’ arrogant and rude ass carry on about the dangers to the nation of President Trump……how long can CNN carry on?  How long can they pay the Jim Acosta’s, the Brook Baldwins’s a million dollars, with less people watching them than tune in to Spongebob Squarepants?

Jeff Zucker has driven the once famous, 24-7, “most trusted name in news” into the very basement, by focusing on a political agenda and not the news, and yet, miraculously the network still lives, like a dying, weezing old man.  I have no idea how or even IF CNN can be saved, become a news agency again; face it, if ALL of CNN was boiled down to a 30 minute sitcom, with its’ ratings, that show would have been cancelled yesterday.  How long can they remain too big to fail?

I don’t know; I am more interested in who is propping it up.

1 comment:

  1. Great question! Even venues with free TV services are now showing MSNBC. For those flying check the screens in the airports to see what channel is on!

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