Comments on: CNN Co-Founder: “CNN’s Ratings Have Gone Down The Drain”

By: Jim C.

Jim C. — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:16:43 +0000

I posted the following over at Huffnpuff. We’ll see if it actually gets past moderation.

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“Confessing error”? Try “wallowing in self-pity”.

“Here are the best excuses I can think of”

Your whole post–I repeat, your WHOLE post–is nothing BUT excuses.

“Perhaps those viewers are the next generation of the rich socialites in the old New Yorker cartoon”

Oh noble man of the people, what’s your annual income?

“Maybe the joy of defeat is underestimated.”

Then why aren’t you happy about losing in the ratings? Why has the left been so unhappy in the last 9 years?

You put on a relentless nine years hate for Bush. You were cheerleaders for Obama. You gave him a pass and got him elected. You chose to be used, and now you’ve been thrown away. You have to create a huge straw man to console yourself. You’re bitter and whiny. Enjoy! I know I’m enjoying the spectacle you’re making of yourself!

By: Victor Erimita

Victor Erimita — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:15:53 +0000

We can fulminate against the malignant MSM/Hard Left partnership. We can gloat over the shrinking audience shares and failing business models. But the fact is the MSM is more powerful and more successfully manipluative than ever. And the undebatable proof is our President. There is absolutely no way a person of no achievement, no notable career, no real, full-time job experience could even be nominated for, let alone be elected to, the Presidency without the full support of the media (which we all acknowledge,) but more depressingly, without its campaign of public manipulation being wildly successful. That is the sad, hard truth.

By: JC

JC — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:44:01 +0000

The whole situation is reminiscent of the radio situation in Los Angeles years ago. There was one or two Spanish stations and a sea of English ones. So the Spanish stations always got higher numbers than the top English ones. These days, there’s a sea of Spanish stations and a lot fewer English stations, and the numbers are much more spread out and less than in the past.

The whole point being that Fox has such good numbers because it’s the sole conservative leaning station. If the libs hate Fox so much, they can quite easily cut its numbers down by providing more conservative leaning shows on their misc stations…

By: Peg C.

Peg C. — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:06:32 +0000

This is just too sweet and no one enjoys the schadenfreude of this more than I, but there is so much wrong with these whining, lefty media narcissists. They simply refuse to live in the real world. And ain’t individual choice a bitch when it’s not all about lifestyle? I don’t have the numbers but didn’t something like 55 or 58 million vote for Obama? And they can’t get 1/60th of those to watch their America-bashing, spittle-flecked, juvenile vitriol? And they blame us, the minority?! Now my household blocks CNN, NBC, and PMSNBC simply because they are too rude, hateful and idiotic to be in my living room. I’m getting a TV-B-Gone to do some guerilla-style warfare on CNN TVs in airports and freeway rest areas. We don’t watch any news as a rule but if we just have to watch something that is breaking, we only watch FNC. It’s the only news channel, broadcast or cable, whose news personalities and opinions don’t make us want to throw up. What I just don’t get is why, now that their little god has been elected, 55 million liberals aren’t watching the verbal pleasuring of him 24/7. Where are all those supportive viewers? And Reese blames us.

Just remember, first and foremost with the left is projection. They are pickled in hatred so they project onto us and voila, we’re the haters. You have to laugh while they circle the drain. Faster please!

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By: Ed Driscoll

Ed Driscoll — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:54:34 +0000

Deguello,

Heh; of course as Charles Johnson noted a few years ago, “In a 1999 lecture at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, former CNN Chief News Executive Eason Jordan told the audience that CNN International was directly inspired by Fidel Castro.”

As Charles rhetorically wrote at the time, “I wonder what could have attracted Fidel Castro so strongly to CNN?”

By: deguello

deguello — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:28:56 +0000

It’s all Bush’s and O’reilly’s fault!Maybe they could open a CNN branch in Havana:I’m sure Castro would welcome this dispenser of stalinist agitprop with open arms!

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By: jensad

jensad — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:15:25 +0000

Could not happen to a more “deserving” and ignoramus network.

jensad

By: Eric R.

Eric R. — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:57:29 +0000

CNN will never change from its left-wing, Islamist, anti-American and anti-Semitic slant, because that would upset its core audience in Europe and the Muslim world.

CNN long ago gave up competing in the USA. They now gear their broadcasts for like-minded degenerates in Brussels, Berlin, Ridyadh and Damascus.

And Hollywood is now geared up the same way.
Better to appeal to foreign audiences that love Socialism and hate America than appeal to what they view as the neanderthals in flyover country.