Reese Schonfeld

May 19, 2013

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Blog Entries by Reese Schonfeld from 03/2011

February Ratings: A Good Month for CNN

| Posted 03.01.2011 | Media

Read More: Headline News Ratings, FoxNews Ratings, Msnbc, Elliot Spitzer, Kathleen Parker, Ken Jautz, MSNBC Ratings, Cnn, CNN Ratings, Cable News Ratings, Middle East, Cable News, Northern Africa, Foxnews, Headline News, Media News

CNN continues to lag behind FoxNews and MSNBC in total viewers. But in February, thanks to the upheaval in Northern Africa, CNN was the only one of th...

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Brooks vs. Huntington

| Posted 03.07.2011 | Politics

Read More: Libya, Yemen, The Culture Change Institute, Cairo, Egypt, Middle East, Tufts University, Sam Huntington, David Brooks, Bahrain, Ali Abdullah Saleh, Politics News

Brooks concludes that Huntington's "mistakes illustrate useful truths: that all people share certain aspirations and that history is wide open." I know, just from having lived eighty years, that all people do not share certain aspirations.

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Bill Clinton or Eliot Spitzer: An Eleventh Anniversary Rumination

| Posted 03.09.2011 | Media

Read More: Bill Clinton, Larry King, St. Patrick's Cathedral, Bill Oreilly, Cnn, Elliot Spitzer, Bob Barnett, Turner Broadcasting, Foxnews, Walter Isaacson, Ted Turner, Me and Ted Against the World, Media News

Who do you think is more likely to attract an audience -- the charming, charismatic Clinton, or the mean and menacing Spitzer?

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CNN Triumphs (At Least in Most Demographic Categories)

| Posted 03.15.2011 | Media

Read More: Headline News Ratings, Msnbc, MSNBC Ratings, Cnn, Cable News Ratings, CNN Ratings, Middle East, Japan, Cable News, Foxnews, Headline News, Fox News Ratings, Media News

Last week's news numbers are the most substantial proof I can present that when major news breaks, occasional (non-regular) news viewers still turn to CNN to get the facts.

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