I happened to notice the ratings for the cable news networks for Tuesday, July 31st. The audiences were a bit smaller than usual, probably because of folks watching Olympic coverage. As usual, Fox News was way ahead of the competition. In prime time, Bill O'Reilly drew an audience of about 2.5 million while the other prime time FNC shows were at roughly 1.5 million. MSNBC averaged about 800 thousand viewers for its prime time lineup. CNN, however, limped in with an average primetime rating of about 280 thousand viewers. That means that the audience for O'Reilly was about eight times larger than the tiny group watching Anderson Cooper on CNN at the same time.
We keep hearing about the impending shakeup at CNN. Some moves have been made, but the network continues to be boring and biased. It seems to have no news and no audience. Who knows? Maybe CNN will merge with Newsweek, and they can go out of business together.
Will Time Warner realize that warmed over liberal bias just does not draw an audience? I doubt it. My guess is that sometime soon, CNN will throw in the towel and it will start running reruns of old HBO series.
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