CNN Does FOX Better than FOX

[Mark B]

Originally Posted by Rajoo

I agree with everything you say.

Trump exiting for DeSantis for a pardon is the most intriguing, but not a good bet for Trump. That promise alone may keep from winning.

Trump selecting DeSantis is the most logical, but Trump is damaged goods and more to follow. Not a good bet for DeSantis to be associated with Trump.

As for a Plan B candidate, reminds me of the 2016 debacle. Not comparing Biden to Hillary, but his age related issues will be easy fodder for the GOP.

Replace age with skin color or religion and it would rightly be called discrimination. Ageism IS discrimination. Repubs started this crap, but I'm really pissed off to see Dems repeating this crap.

[RickeyM]

DeSantis could hedge his bet with tRump as VP. tRump gets (Heaven forbid) elected or the Repubs steal it. Trump then gets booted via a felony conviction. DeSantis takes over the helm. Sounds crazy but never choose a second that's hungrier than you are.

[barbara]

Trump would never pick DeSantis as a running mate. DeSantis might steal too much if the limelight and Trumps ego could never handle that.

[Ike Bana]

Licht confirms himself as a ratings whore...

"Have fun.”

Those were Chris Licht’s last words to Donald Trump before the CNN/MAGA propaganda event in New Hampshire.

Apparently Trump was in a beneficent mood, and promised Licht there would be a boost of ratings for CNN.

Chris Licht wants to be the next American billionaire and he doesn’t care if he has to destroy our democratic republic to do it.

[whell]

Originally Posted by Ike Bana

Licht confirms himself as a ratings whore...

The fact that an executive of cable news programming wants favorable ratings is a surprise to you?

For context, when Licht took the reigns after Zucker left, CNN's ratings were tanking in a major way:

Now, a review of ratings data compiled by Nielsen shows the internal chaos at the network is mirrored by deep declines in viewership across all day parts—total day and prime time. Through February 15, CNN’s average prime-time audience among viewers 25-54—the key demographic valued by advertisers—was just 126,000, representing a 69% drop from the same period one year ago. Among total viewers, the average audience was 534,000, a decline of 68% from 2021.

If you don't think Licht's mandate when he was hired was to stabilize and then increase ratings, you're delusional.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by whell

The fact that an executive of cable news programming wants favorable ratings is a surprise to you?

For context, when Licht took the reigns after Zucker left, CNN's ratings were tanking in a major way:

Now, a review of ratings data compiled by Nielsen shows the internal chaos at the network is mirrored by deep declines in viewership across all day parts—total day and prime time. Through February 15, CNN’s average prime-time audience among viewers 25-54—the key demographic valued by advertisers—was just 126,000, representing a 69% drop from the same period one year ago. Among total viewers, the average audience was 534,000, a decline of 68% from 2021.

If you don't think Licht's mandate when he was hired was to stabilize and then increase ratings, you're delusional.

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.

[whell]

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.

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by whell

The fact that an executive of cable news programming wants favorable ratings is a surprise to you?

The only surprise is that Licht is such a noxious asshole as to use the destruction of our democratic republic as the means to accumulate ratings that would multiply his wealth.

I am not surprised at all that a traitorous imbecile like you has no problem with it. Allowing this "town hall" has CNN behaving in the same manner that has already cost FUXNEWS threequarters of a billion dollars in damages to Dominion. CNN has put forth propaganda that they knew good and goddamn well in advance would be lies.

[ZeroJunk]

Originally Posted by Ike Bana

The only surprise is that Licht is such a noxious asshole as to use the destruction of our democratic republic as the means to accumulate ratings that would multiply his wealth.

I am not surprised at all that a traitorous imbecile like you has no problem with it. Allowing this "town hall" has CNN behaving in the same manner that has already cost FUXNEWS threequarters of a billion dollars in damages to Dominion. CNN has put forth propaganda that they knew good and goddamn well in advance would be lies.

So, you are thinking that people like you are not strong enough to listen to Trump ?

[donquixote99]

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

Maybe that will wipe the smirk off his face.