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What’s happened to CNN?

People don't tend to watch it religiously like they do Fox News. It's not partisan enough (like Fox or MSNBC) to draw hardcore loyalists. I've also noticed that the party not in power tends to have a slowdown in rating while the party in power has a rise (probably because they feel that they have more to complain about)

In the end CNN's niche is center left. They're competing with ABC, NBC, CBS, and a host of other news platforms including spoof news like the Daily Show, Last Week Tonight, etc...

Honestly, Fox isn't even news anymore. It's 95% commentator opinions surrounding 3 or 4 events every week.
 
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Fox News Channel is two different businesses owned by one company that run back to back. It’s news reporting during the day. It’s opinion journalism at night. No different than the front page and the editorial page of newspapers, except two companies operate that way under one umbrella, no different than the major networks, but different than MSNBC. They don’t hide that fact, have internal business processes that govern the mornings and afternoons to keep it that way, and unlike other networks, actually admit it. They know they are selling entertainment and ain’t snobby about it.

CNN is like any other major corporation with a stale product and poor management. It can operate break even for awhile, but Wolf alone is only going to buy you so much credibility.

You should be asking your question in the form of who is watching and why. Network entertainment television is in the toilet and that includes news. MLS regular season games on a good night regularly draw audiences just below a CBS Wednesday night at 8pm sit com offering. CBS Evening News once the most watched show on television is about the same.

And you should be asking who is publishing this article, why are you reading it, and is the purpose of the article to subtly influence you without giving you complete facts?

For instance, why is Univision completely omitted when their domestic news audience now outranks CNN?

Would that be because this article isn’t really about who is watching but really just a fact omitting inference that the loyalty of the people watching infers validation of the points of view discussed? Is that really productive?
 
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Fox News Channel is two different businesses that run back to back. It’s news reporting during the day. It’s opinion journalism at night. No different than the front page and the editorial page of newspapers. They don’t hide that fact, have internal business processes that govern the mornings and afternoons to keep it that way, and unlike other networks, actually admit it.
It's absolutely not a news channel at any point. It's opinions during the day as well. There is no real news on Fox News. Literally, ever hour of their lineup is a presentation by a face with no real news attached to it.

Fox & Friends. 6 AM to 9 AM. A tainted hyperconservative Good Morning America. No News.

America's "Newsroom". 9 AM to 11 AM. A show where handpicked Republican lawmakers come on to complain about their pet issue of the day. Typically reserved for complaints about the federal government when they don't control the government, and about liberal wokeism, fantasies of immigrant overrunning our borders, or violence in inner cities when they do control the government. Still not news. (especially when the same topic is covered ad nauseum)

The Faulkner Focus + Outnumbered. 11 - 1 PM. A hard hitting news program with segments such as "Dems Security Hypocrisy on Full Display" or "Critics: Jan 6th Hearing Feels Like a Dem Atk Ad" with special guests: Republican snowflake senators who feel offended that they're being attacked in a hearing they chose not to participate in.

It just goes on until you get to the evening lineup with Cavuto.

Anytime you are interviewing a politician about a news story, you are not presenting news. You are presenting an opinion about news. It would be like them saying "and now we are joined by aTUfan for comment on Biden's falling poll numbers".

What the world needs is facts. Cold hard facts. But that wouldn't fill up an entire 24 hour cycle on most days. (Which we have CNN to blame for introducing) So instead we get opinion interviews all day everyday with a smattering of recent events, and little factual description about those events.

Luckily, the major broadcasters and other media outlets do better jobs discussing facts and observation. So if people can tell themselves away from what a random Republican Senator has to say about the same tired political platform plank for the 25th time, they might learn something about what's going on in the world, why it is happening, and how it is actually effecting people.
 
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My surprise was the degree which CNN’s prime time opinion shows have fallen. Yes, they go up against the same type of shows at Fox and MSNBC but have fallen well behind both of those networks in prime time.
 
My surprise was the degree which CNN’s prime time opinion shows have fallen. Yes, they go up against the same type of shows at Fox and MSNBC but have fallen well behind both of those networks in prime time.
Like I said, they’re not partisan enough to draw eyeballs who only want to live in their echo chamber and they’re not informative enough to draw eyeballs of folks who want actual news. They’ve just lost their niche. ultimately, who cares?
 
It's absolutely not a news channel at any point. It's opinions during the day as well. There is no real news on Fox News. Literally, ever hour of their lineup is a presentation by a face with no real news attached to it.
Totally agree. Rupert Murdoch has undermined the integrity and quality of every piece of media that he has touched. like Trump, no one's reputation or integrity has ever been improved by an association with him. Fox is just another vehicle to pander to the lowest instincts of some parts of the public.
 
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