Disappearing airliner coverage fails to pull CNN out of a steep dive

Deadline reports that between December 30 and March 28, CNN averaged only 498k viewers during primetime and a miserable 169k in the coveted 25-54 advertiser demo. That’s a 3% dip in demo viewers over last year and an astounding 16% dip in overall viewers.

UhCNNSecond place MSNBC dipped 10% with 683k primetime viewers and 9% in total day viewers, including 2% in the demo. Fox News, however, jumped 4% in total viewers and 3% in demo viewers. With 1.8 million total viewers and 293k demo viewers, Fox beats both of its left-wing competitors combined in total viewers.

MSNBC, which is basically left-wing talk radio with pictures, has been losing viewers due to President Obama’s continued misfortunes and the lack of a right-wing bogeyman to beat up. … CNN’s primary problem has been a devastating shift to the hard-left. Before the disappearance of the Malaysian airliner, CNN had been out-flanking MSNBC’s to the political left with relentless attacks against Christians, conservatives, and a bordering-on-creepy obsession with identity politics and stripping Americans of their Second Amendment civil rights.

CNN chief Jeff Zucker has also made his network pay a big price for its missing airline coverage. The network’s ratings might have temporarily jumped but the damage to CNN’s prestige will last a lot longer.

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