Has CNN found its niche

RIP CNN

Great business decision on their part. Let Fox and MSNBC go at it and CNN will be like a People magazine.


http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/18/bu...iner.html?_r=0#

“It is a tremendous story that is completely in our wheelhouse,” said a senior CNN executive, who asked not to be identified defining the network’s strategy for its coverage. CNN’s ratings soared last week and over the weekend, rising by almost 100 percent in prime time. The network even managed the rare feat of edging past Fox News for leadership in several hours.
Last Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, the CNN 8 p.m. program, hosted by Anderson Cooper, beat Fox’s perennial ratings giant, Bill O’Reilly, in the audience that attracts the most revenue for news channels, viewers between the ages of 25 and 54. It was the first time Mr. Cooper has ever topped Mr. O’Reilly in the group for three straight days. (Mr. O’Reilly still won the week in that category.)

So what are they going to do now?

The real joke is 90 percent of all of their coverage was pure speculation, two weeks of "what if". But then that is what the public wants. It's almost as if CNN would have said it enough times, that plane really would have ended up in some remote field in Iran, being loaded with nuclear waste, waiting to take off for New York.

In the end, all of their round the clock coverage amounted to nothing. The plane was where many of us said, in about 12,000 ft of water in the southern Indian Ocean.

CNN's popularity these past couple of weeks can be credited to, as Tattoo liked to say:

It's hard to imagine that CNN's bosses could have figured out a way to sink that turkey even further into a state of utter vapidity, but it looks like they've done just that.

What happens when the public's fascination with the Flight 370 story runs its course, which it soon will?

Shit where will fox get their news now???

RIP CNN

Great business decision on their part. Let Fox and MSNBC go at it and CNN will be like a People magazine.


http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/18/bu...iner.html?_r=0#

“It is a tremendous story that is completely in our wheelhouse,” said a senior CNN executive, who asked not to be identified defining the network’s strategy for its coverage. CNN’s ratings soared last week and over the weekend, rising by almost 100 percent in prime time. The network even managed the rare feat of edging past Fox News for leadership in several hours.
Last Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, the CNN 8 p.m. program, hosted by Anderson Cooper, beat Fox’s perennial ratings giant, Bill O’Reilly, in the audience that attracts the most revenue for news channels, viewers between the ages of 25 and 54. It was the first time Mr. Cooper has ever topped Mr. O’Reilly in the group for three straight days. (Mr. O’Reilly still won the week in that category.) Originally Posted by WTF

They know it will help DUMB the people down.... Fucking Commies



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Hell, they should try the "what if" speculation on every story out there if it means ratings.

It's hard to imagine that CNN's bosses could have figured out a way to sink that turkey even further into a state of utter vapidity, but it looks like they've done just that.

What happens when the public's fascination with the Flight 370 story runs its course, which it soon will? Originally Posted by CaptainMidnight

They were catering to Mensa's like JD!

When they find the plane and recover the black box and it turns out if was a fire, CNN will go right back in the toilet.

When they find the plane and recover the black box and it turns out if was a fire, CNN will go right back in the toilet. Originally Posted by ExNYer

You are missing the point Ex.....they have changed their business model. They are like a spider, just waiting on the next new bs story that the public is fascinated with.

Fox has the nuts on the right, MSNBC has the nuts on the left and CNN is going for folks who watch Dancing With The Stars.

I just clicked on CNN's website.

As is their wont, they have yet another redundant Flight 370 "breaking news" story screamed in huge ALL-CAPS at the top of the page. One report says that they've done this stuff many times daily for a number of consecutive days, with each new "breaking news" piece differing little from the previous one.

In other words, it looks exactly like it would if they hired Whirlaway to handle their website updates.

In other words, it looks exactly like it would if they hired Whirlaway to handle their website updates. Originally Posted by CaptainMidnight

Poetic justice...Whirly like rantings' turning around CNN's ratings!

Radio Silence on Leland Yee

Having assiduously ignored one of the gonzo corruption stories of the last decade, CNN this week offered a peculiar defense of its silence. Rankled by a curious Twitter user, who asked why “the Leland Yee story appears nowhere on CNN’s website,” the outlet explained that the decision was “in line with us covering state senators & state secretary of state races just about never.” “You see another conspiracy?” the account asked its inquisitor, snippily.

There is a lot of space between bias and conspiracy, and one does not have to believe that CNN’s editorial staff is sitting around stroking white cats and cackling for its explanation to remain unsatisfactory. A search for the words “state senator” on CNN’s website returns more than 2,800 results, the vast majority of them stories about . . . state senators. “Wendy Davis” — one such state senator — yields 168 entries, many of which predated Davis’s running for governor; “Stacey Campfield,” a Tennessee state senator who has made some choice comments about homosexuals, returns five; and “Ted Nugent,” who is not an elected figure of any sort, returns 186, a substantial number of which relate to comments he made while supporting Texas attorney general and gubernatorial nominee Greg Abbott earlier in the year. For his part, Yee’s name returns just one result, a video in which, per the outlet’s own blurb, he “discusses a bill to help prevent children from having access to violent video games.”

read more: http://www.nationalreview.com/articl...rles-c-w-cooke

I was wanting to watch a basketball game and my gf was watching ''Dancing With The Stars''. I bet her I could predict what CNN , MSNBC and Fox News were broadcasting at the time. Flight 370, Chris Christie and Obamacare. She was like "How did you do that?". I told her that is wtf they each gravitate too. So it really isn't anything CNN is doing that the other cable news outlets aren't doing. Catering to their customers.

You are missing the point Ex.....they have changed their business model. They are like a spider, just waiting on the next new bs story that the public is fascinated with.

Fox has the nuts on the right, MSNBC has the nuts on the left and CNN is going for folks who watch Dancing With The Stars. Originally Posted by WTF

I think you hit it.