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For CNN, April Is the Cruelest Month Again

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 05.02.2012

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Reese Schonfeld

CNN ought to do whatever it can to cut April out of the calendar. Last year was bad enough, but this year CNN's audience shrunk by 21% over the total day and 16% in primetime.

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CNN, Thirty Years Later

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 03.30.2012

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Reese Schonfeld

CNN is a major brand worldwide, but it's in third place on its home turf.

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Fox News To Female Comedians: Be Sexy

Posted 12.13.2011

Read More: Video, Olivia Munn, Foxnews Banging Bodies, Patrick Wanis, Sexism, Female Comedians, Melissa Mccarthy, Janeane Garofalo, Foxnews on Female Comedians, Foxnews, Carrie Keagan, Feminism, Sexy Women, Comedy News

At least they didn't say, "No Fat Chicks." FoxNews.com is drawing fire today for suggesting that the time of the "frumpy" female comedian is coming...

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Casey Anthony Wins Again: The Triumph of Sleaze

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 09.05.2011

Read More: OJ Simpson Trial, OJ Simpson, FoxNews Ratings, Headline News Ratings, Msnbc, MSNBC Ratings, Cnn, Casey Anthony Trial, Cable News Ratings, CNN Ratings, Cable News, Casey Anthony, Headline News, Foxnews, Sleaze, Media News
Reese Schonfeld

Not only was Casey Anthony found not guilty, but she also won more total day viewers than FoxNews, MSNBC and CNN.

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June Ratings: Give Them What They Want and They'll Watch It

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 08.28.2011

Read More: Headline News Ratings, Msnbc, Afghanistan, Nancy Grace, Casey Anthony Trial, Headline News, Democrats, FoxNews Ratings, Libya, H.L. Mencken, Cnn, CNN Ratings, Cable News Ratings, Harry Cohn, Casey Anthony, Cable News, Foxnews, Republicans, Media News
Reese Schonfeld

It was Harry Cohn, boss of Columbia Pictures, who said "give the people what they want, and they'll come out for it." Now they can stay in and watch it. And what they watched in June is the Casey Anthony trial.

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May Ratings: CNN Turnaround

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 08.02.2011

Read More: FoxNews Ratings, Libya, Msnbc, MSNBC Ratings, Cnn, CNN Ratings, Cable News Ratings, Cable News, Tornadoes, Foxnews, Osama Bin Laden, Media News
Reese Schonfeld

When major news breaks, people who are not regular news viewers turn to CNN for what they think is important. Now, if CNN could only find a way to make more of their news seem important, they might provide real competition to Fox.

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Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due: CNN

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 07.12.2011

Read More: FoxNews Ratings, Tsunami, Cnn, President Obama, CNN Ratings, Cable News Ratings, Earthquake, Cable News, Foxnews, Osama Bin Laden, Media News
Reese Schonfeld

Last week, CNN proved once again that it is the television news source that occasional news viewers seek out when major stories break. It ranked ninth...

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WATCH: Colbert Defends Sean Hannity Against Anderson Cooper

Posted 06.28.2011

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When Sean Hannity aired his special on liberal media bias, he used more than a few "artfully" cut clips to illustrate his point. Anderson Cooper took...

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CHART: Why Glenn Beck Is Really Leaving New York

The Huffington Post | Carol Hartsell | Posted 06.18.2011

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The news is out this morning that Glenn Beck is planning to leave New York...well, at least leaving his New York-adjacent Connecticut mansion. But the...

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Colbert Agrees With Gretchen Carlson: Obama Needs Graphs

Posted 06.15.2011

Read More: Stephen Colbert, Political Comedy, Video, The Colbert Report, Gretchen Carlson, Funny Videos, Obama Deficit Speech, President Obama, Fox & Friends, Colbert Obama Charts, Foxnews, Barack Obama, Colbert, Comedy News

Depending on who you talk to, President Obama's budget speech was either a clear statement of values and intent or a snoozefest. "Fox & Friends'" Gre...

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WATCH: Is the GlennPocalypse Upon Us?

Posted 06.05.2011

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Are you prepared for a world without Glenn Beck? That may be exactly the situation we're facing if Beck continues to lose sponsors and audience. R...

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WATCH: Colbert Congratulates Fox News & CNN

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stephen Colbert, Libya, Video, The Colbert Report, Foxnews Reporter, Nic Robertson, Libya No Fly Zone, Libya Airstrikes, Cnn Reporter, Cnn, Steve Harrigan, Jennifer Griffin, Colbert Report, Foxnews, Comedy News

Sometimes journalists accidentally become part of a story simply by being present to report on it as it develops. And other times they use a story to...

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CNN Triumphs (At Least in Most Demographic Categories)

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 05.25.2011

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Reese Schonfeld

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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Bill Clinton or Eliot Spitzer: An Eleventh Anniversary Rumination

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 05.25.2011

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
Reese Schonfeld

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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February Ratings: A Good Month for CNN

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 05.25.2011

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
Reese Schonfeld

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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Cable News Ratings: Egypt and the Olbermann Effect

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 05.25.2011

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Reese Schonfeld

According to information supplied by Cynopsis, Fox News continues to dominate to the cable news ratings, but CNN and MSNBC finished in a virtual tie among primetime viewers.

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WATCH: Smurfy Outtakes From Obama's O'Reilly Interview

Posted 05.25.2011

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As is often the case in the world of television, when Bill O'Reilly's interview with President Obama was originally aired, some things were cut for ti...

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Cable News Ratings: January Snapshot

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Headline News Ratings, Egypt Protests, FoxNews Ratings, Msnbc, Egypt, Cnn, Cable News Ratings, Keith Olbermann, Headline News, Cable News, MSNBC Ratings, Keith Olbermann MSNBC, Foxnews, CNN Ratings, Media News
Reese Schonfeld

FoxNews continues to dominate news viewing in total audience and all demographics except 18-34 year olds, where MSNBC leads. According to Cynopsis, a...

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CNN Killed Gabrielle Giffords, But We Didn't Kill Jim Brady

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bernie Shaw, Cnn, Dan Rather, Jim Baker, Abc, Cissy Baker, Sandy Kenyon, Cbs, Foxnews, President Reagan, Nbc, Howard Baker, Media News
Reese Schonfeld

None of the sources on Giffords "death" were "in the room" either. Maybe the news networks will remember to get "in the room" reports before they report a story next time, but I doubt it.

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2010 and a Happy New Year Message to CNN

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Headline News Ratings, Cable News War, FoxNews Ratings, Msnbc, Sean Hannity, Cnn, Christmas, Cable News Ratings, Cable News, MSNBC Ratings, Headline News, Foxnews, CNN Ratings, Media News
Reese Schonfeld

It is the duty of a free press to reject lies and report the truth. If CNN took that as its mission, it might get a hell of a lot more viewers next year.

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November Cable News Ratings: Parker/Spitzer Isn't Working

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Headline News Ratings, FoxNews Ratings, Msnbc, Parker Spitzer, Cnn, MSNBC Ratings, Ken Jautz, Cable News Ratings, CNN Ratings, Headline News, Cable News, Foxnews, Media News
Reese Schonfeld

Fewer viewers tuned into cable news this November than last November, despite Parker/Spitzer and the fact that 2010 was an election year and 2009 was...

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Update: Predicting Election Results by Viewer Preference

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 05.25.2011

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Reese Schonfeld

I've been able to get last week's cable viewing numbers in time to include last week's results. FoxNews viewing was up sharply in all categories during the week of 10/25 to 10/31. Here are the numbers.

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Predicting Election Results by Viewer Preference

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 05.25.2011

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Reese Schonfeld

In every election of the past decade I have predicted the results based on Nielsen's cable news viewing numbers. So far, I have always gotten it right. And, if that happens again next Tuesday, the Democrats are in for a disaster.

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A Chile Wind Blows CNN Some Good

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chile, FoxNews Ratings, Msnbc, Miners, Kathleen Parker, Parker Spitzer, Cnn, Cable News Ratings, Chile Miners, Cable News, MSNBC Ratings, Foxnews, Eliot Spitzer, CNN Ratings, Media News
Reese Schonfeld

Given that CNN gained more viewers than its two rivals combined, I would suggest to my successors that they abandon talking about the news and start showing more of it.

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Third Quarter Cable News: Bad News for All Networks, But Hope for a Better CNN

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Headline News Ratings, FoxNews Ratings, Msnbc, Cnn, Jon Klein, JIm Walton, Digital Newsgathering, MSNBC Ratings, Headline News, BP Oil Spill, Foxnews, CNN Ratings, Media News
Reese Schonfeld

Could it be that the decline in news viewers is symptomatic of a general and genuine disgust by news viewers who are just fed up with the kind of news being fed to them?

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