CNN Does FOX Better than FOX

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Originally Posted by finnbow

You don't seem to understand that chasing ratings without regard to the veracity of what is presented damages journalistic ethics. Just look at the Fox/Dominion scandal. Their $3/4 billion settlement resulted from chasing ratings by deliberately presenting false information.

You don't seem to understand that two are not mutually exclusive - ratings and good journalism/content - and never have been. Newspapers can't profitably exist without the ability to charge sufficient fees for advertising. We've seen the fallout from this as newspapers previously struggled to maintain profit margins in the age of cable news.

CNN has faced competition from a variety of sources. When it started out, CNN was really one of a kind on cable. CNN's problem became a failure to attract and maintain ratings share in the face of competition from a variety of sources, Fox among them.

CNN made a choice - it was going to counter Fox and present news from a competing (leaning to the left) perspective. They've continued to hemorrhage audiences and were second fiddle to other news networks long before the 2020 election or even the 2016 election.

During this fall, CNN had no problem repeating various false claims, among others the Russia Collusion narrative, and the Sandmann case. So, while CNN has been hemorrhaging ratings, they've been alienating audiences with
false and malicious reporting as well as putting a lousy product on ont the air.

In the end, it is about ratings. Ratings = profitability which allows the news outlet to exist. if that news outlet alienates customers, as both Fox and CNN have done, with bad reporting or bad product, then they'll pay a ratings price for it.

For what it's worth, CNN just came in behind Newsmax in the ratings. Not good news at all for Licht and company.