Chris Enloe
The BlazeMon, 03 Jul 2017 12:13 UTC
© AP Photo / Ric Feld, File
First,
three journalists resigned for publishing a story last week that connected a Trump transition team member to a Russian investment bank. The story hinged on a single anonymous source and was later proven false.
Then Project Vertias, led by journalist James O'Keefe,
released a number of undercover videos purportedly trying to further damage the journalistic credibility and reputation of CNN.
And
according to a report from the Independent Journal Review, CNN had a total of four journalism blunders in June.
Now, it appears the rough month has had a lasting effect on viewers.
On Tuesday, CNN's
primetime viewership peaked at only 886,000 overall viewers, whereas MSNBC peaked at 2.77M and Fox News peaked at 2.79M viewers.
In the coveted 25-54-year-old demographic, CNN was only able to amass 308,000 viewers at its peak.On Wednesday,
it was much of the same. CNN peaked at 908,000 viewers where Fox and MSNBC both peaked
But on Thursday, CNN
was able to pick it up a little, and they carried just over 1 million viewers during Anderson Cooper's and Don Lemon's shows. However, they still trailed behind MSNBC and Fox by more than a million peak viewers.
Things got even worse Friday night after CNN producers aired a fake cover from National Enquirer as something real.
Comment: Looks like CNN's war against Trump has backfired. As DailyWire
reports,
Over the entire second quarter of 2017, looking at total viewers, only one CNN program placed in the top 20 of all cable news shows, and that was Anderson Cooper's 360, which landed with a thud at number 20. For perspective, a repeat of Tucker Carlson's Fox New hour attracted more viewers than any show on CNN.
Furthermore, throughout this same quarter, CNN lost to MSNBC in total and primetime demo viewers. This is the first time since 2014 that CNN has lost that demo crown to its leftwing rival. In total viewers last quarter, among all cable news channels, Fox News placed first, MSNBC third, and CNN is all alone in tenth place, just barely ahead of Investigative Discovery, a second-tier offshoot of the Discovery Network.
CNN now has two major problems. First, most of the country is right-of-center and that large swath wants nothing to do with these serial liars. But that is an age-old problem. CNN's latest problem is with Leftists, who not only have an alternative with MSNBC, but who are almost certainly tired of all the fake news CNN pushes — fake news that gets their hopes up that Trump's impeachment is imminent; fake news that only ends up further crushing their hopes and dreams.
Further reading:
Comment: Looks like CNN's war against Trump has backfired. As DailyWire reports, Further reading: