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CNN goes first two weeks of October without any program reaching 1M viewers

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Re: CNN goes first two weeks of October without any program reaching 1M viewers

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Post by tyingq »

Scharkenberg wrote: post #6

What a terribly written article, let alone that it provides no sources. London Daily isn't a reputable and reviewed news source and it admits the following on the About Us page: > Publishing news is very simple, just click ‘add your news’ on the site and it will take the author to the article upload interface. Why was this excuse of a news article even posted here?

It is odd and leaves out some of what actually happened. CNN is still the #1 draw on basic cable. What actually happened is that the boost they got in viewership from the pandemic is starting to roll off. And, of course, younger people care a lot less about any cable TV content, so there's a long-term roll off too.

It's a few months old, but this AdWeek story is more clear: https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/q2-21-ratings-cnn-is-one-of-...

Re: CNN goes first two weeks of October without any program reaching 1M viewers

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Post by HenryKissinger »

Theory: CNN watchers are more economically affluent than watchers of other channels and are too busy working jobs and running businesses and exercising and traveling etc. to watch CNN.

Higher income households spend less time watching cable TV. Lower income people spend more time.

A channel with high viewership is actually attracting the bottom bucket of society.

Re: CNN goes first two weeks of October without any program reaching 1M viewers

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Post by varelse »

Scharkenberg wrote: post #6

What a terribly written article, let alone that it provides no sources. London Daily isn't a reputable and reviewed news source and it admits the following on the About Us page: > Publishing news is very simple, just click ‘add your news’ on the site and it will take the author to the article upload interface. Why was this excuse of a news article even posted here?

I don't think you need to put a whole lot of thought into why this article was posted. I think you already know the answer in fact. It's a terrible article and it's written in a terrible way. Who might want to post that here?

Re: CNN goes first two weeks of October without any program reaching 1M viewers

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Post by amackera »

Who on HN is upvoting this kind of garbage article?

> CNN continues to lose trust for its biased news against whoever did not vote for Biden, and its promotion of an extremist hate-culture against "the other" 84 million American voters.

... what??

This trash doesn't belong here.

Re: CNN goes first two weeks of October without any program reaching 1M viewers

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Post by varelse »

systemvoltage wrote: post #9
hh3k0 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All media outlets are, only the degree of audacity varies.

https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-ratings CNN is especially eggregious. NYTimes should also be on the left column which is reflected in the votes "Somewhat disagree" with the current characterization as Center-Left (scroll down). Edit: I am just pointing out a free publicly available dataset of what the population thinks of the media. Make what you will, don't shoot me.

As opposed to completely reasonable utterly sensible sources like One America Network News, Newsmax, and Russian Television?

Re: CNN goes first two weeks of October without any program reaching 1M viewers

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Post by LinuxBender »

If the most important stats are active viewers then perhaps we should get our news from PewDiePie [1] /s

But seriously there are a lot of long-form youtube hosts discussing news topics and current events taking the lead over traditional channels. Is there any speculation that traditional news platforms will reform and adapt, or would they have already done that? Is anything holding them back?

[1] - https://www.noxinfluencer.com/youtube/channel/UC-lHJZR3Gqxm2...

Re: CNN goes first two weeks of October without any program reaching 1M viewers

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Post by systemvoltage »

varelse wrote: post #15
systemvoltage wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-ratings CNN is especially eggregious. NYTimes should also be on the left column which is reflected in the votes "Somewhat disagree" with the current characterization as Center-Left (scroll down). Edit: I am just pointing out a free publicly available dataset of what the population thinks of the media. Make what you will, don't shoot me.

As opposed to completely reasonable utterly sensible sources like One America Network News, Newsmax, and Russian Television?

Strange comment. Seems like you lashed out because you think I am praising those networks? Those are all terrible sources of news. What if I told you that you can criticize one while also criticizing the other? It is liberating.

Re: CNN goes first two weeks of October without any program reaching 1M viewers

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Post by syspec »

miked85 wrote: post #3

They are pretty blatantly just a propaganda outlet at this point, it is even obvious to former viewers.

Meanwhile this article is ACTUALLY propaganda, contains no sources, and is on a site where anyone can submit "news" via a form.

And yet you believed it, because it agrees with your preexisting view.

Re: CNN goes first two weeks of October without any program reaching 1M viewers

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Post by MattRix »

systemvoltage wrote: post #9
hh3k0 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All media outlets are, only the degree of audacity varies.

https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-ratings CNN is especially eggregious. NYTimes should also be on the left column which is reflected in the votes "Somewhat disagree" with the current characterization as Center-Left (scroll down). Edit: I am just pointing out a free publicly available dataset of what the population thinks of the media. Make what you will, don't shoot me.

There is nothing necessarily wrong with bias toward a specific side, unless you make the flawed assumption that the truth must be in the center.

Re: CNN goes first two weeks of October without any program reaching 1M viewers

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Post by cvnlz »

amackera wrote: post #14

Who on HN is upvoting this kind of garbage article? > CNN continues to lose trust for its biased news against whoever did not vote for Biden, and its promotion of an extremist hate-culture against "the other" 84 million American voters. ... what?? This trash doesn't belong here.

Why is it trash? CNN lied about Rogan taking "horse paste" when he had a regular prescription for humans:

https://mobile.twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/144869603591685...

CNN is not the same as 20 years ago, and neither is the NYT.

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