Non-Breaking News: CNN's Ratings Are Absolute Dogshit and Not Even the Smoldering Dark Sexual Charisma of Jake Tapper Can Save Them

Via DougP. of Twitchy, there's completely-expected news that CNN's ratings are exactly where you'd think they'd be.

CNN finished No. 17 among cable stations during primetime last week amid a news cycle that included the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson and the ensuing manhunt for his killer, a slew of news related to President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet picks, the fallout from President Biden announcing he would pardon his son, Hunter, and a rebel alliance's challenging Bashar al-Assad in Syria.

CNN's primetime lineup of "Anderson Cooper 360," "The Source with Kaitlan Collins" and "CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip" averaged only 367,000 total viewers from 8-11 p.m. during the week of December 2. By comparison, Fox News Channel averaged 2.5 million total primetime viewers during the same period.

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Despite the busy news cycle, CNN's bleak audience was smaller than TNT, Food Network, Freeform, Discovery, INSP, Hallmark Mystery, TLC, TBS, History, HGTV, USA, MSNBC, Paramount, Hallmark Channel, ESPN and Fox News.

It was even worse for CNN's primetime lineup among the advertiser-coveted demographic of adults age 25-54, as the network managed only 67,000 average demo viewers to finish No. 26 in cable.

More at the Twitchy link regarding CNN's latest "news" reportage, including a CNN anchorette literally lusting after the UHC CEO's assassin, insisting that the chyron be taken down so that she could see his abs.

We are real news, Mr. President.

The depravity of white leftist women is unreal.

Meanwhile, the LA Times' owners are hiring conservative writers to provide some tiny amount of balance in the editorial staff.

One leftist has resigned, shrieking "This is not the time for balance!"

It never is for these deranged communists.

Last year, Washington Post publisher and CEO William Lewis delivered a truth bomb in the middle of the newsroom by telling the staff, "Let's not sugarcoat it...We are losing large amounts of money. Your audience has halved in recent years. People are not reading your stuff. Right? I can't sugarcoat it anymore."

Litman has been one of the most unabashed lawfare warriors. Even when the Justice Department was seeking to dismiss the Flynn case, Lipman wrote an L.A. Times column advising Judge Emmet Sullivan how to "make trouble" for the administration. Litman admitted there is "very little leeway to reject the government's decisions to dismiss charges" but encouraged Sullivan to "accomplish what Congress, multiple inspectors general, and a majority of the electorate have not been able to do -- hold the president and his allies accountable for their contemptuous disregard for the rule of law."

On MSNBC's Deadline: White House, Litman declared to Nicolle Wallace that Trump's victory is "an absolute five-alarm fire." He called the effort to restore a diversity of viewpoints as little more than an attempt "to curry favor with Trump." He then added:

"And I just think this is not a time for balance when you have someone who's not telling the truth on the other side. And it's a deep responsibility. And instead, I think they cowered and are worried about their personal holdings and just being threatened by Trump. And that's a really shameful capitulation, I think. So, I just felt I couldn't be a part of it and had to resign."

It was a telling moment. Litman appeared on a network that has lost half of its viewership and is fighting for its existence in an effort by NBCUniversal to unload it. Readers are fleeing to new media after papers like the L.A. Times and the Washington Post literally wrote off half of the country. Yet, these figures would rather lose their jobs and media platforms than their bias.

posted by Ace at 01:08 PM

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