Let's ask Twitter and Facebook what the issue could be.

Well, what kind of farkstick wants to watch news all night?

During the same time slot over on Fox News, Sean Hannity averaged 1,749,000 total viewers and 324,000 in the 25-54 demo.

Oh.

Blues_X: Well, what kind of farkstick wants to watch news all night?

During the same time slot over on Fox News, Sean Hannity averaged 1,749,000 total viewers and 324,000 in the 25-54 demo.

Oh.

Pretty much. There's a reason why the shows that do better with younger demographics cost more to advertise during, because they're a lot harder to hit with commercials.

Old people just sitting around watching TV? It's like shootin' fishin a barrel there's so many of them.

This just in: CNN is garbage, Piers Morgan a tool, and his show a complete failure.

There may very well be a potential TV audience/market for hard news done well, with competent, fair analysis without histrionics or staged drama, coverage that's broad in scope both nationally and internationally, as well as with in-depth coverage of the most important issues of the day with thoughtful, reasoned debate.

They sure as hell wouldn't be watching CNN, though.

I get my news from Al Jazeera and tune in to CNN when I'm in the mood for a sitcom.

Fark rage at Fox news amuses me no end. Such horror over news that most people can relate to in their real lives, instead of the leftist drivel served up my the MSM.

they need more warble with their garble. Trying to be neutral is no way to go, son.

mark12A: Fark rage at Fox news amuses me no end. Such horror over news that most people can relate to in their real lives, instead of the leftist drivel served up my the MSM.

Fox news IS the mainstream media you farking tool. God I hate it when idiots act like FOX ISN'T the most watched news network in the farking world...

KhamanV: Ashleigh Banfield is absolutely horrible as well; she crops up in the morning/afternoon slots occasionally and I wish to farking christ she wouldn't.

but she's hot as fark!

Madbassist1: Fox news IS the mainstream media you farking tool. God I hate it when idiots act like FOX ISN'T the most watched news network in the farking world...


I miss the days of the TERROR ALERT LEVEL: ORANGE crawl. Oh Fox. Whatever happened to us?

Their solution is easy.

Wait and watch Jon Stewart's analysis team, and every time one of them leaves the Daily Show, hire them; Stewart's pulling 1.7 million viewers most weeks and it's not because he's writing his own jokes.

Unlike CNN, the Daily Show is actually a critical news source - they look at the stories and say "what's wrong with this picture" and then report it. With a comical twist, true, but that's just one extra step.

"Help me, Wolf Blitzer, you're my only hope!"

Aarontology: CNN is parade magazine on cable.

CNN : USA Today
MSNBC : NYT
CNBC : WSJ
Fox News : The Sun

/if it weren't for hotel subscriptions, how well would USA Today be doing?

I tried to get some news the morning after the Mars rover landing.
FoxNews: OMG HARRY REID SAID THIS!!! - 45 minutes, followed by a supermodel interview.
MSNBC: HARRY REID SAID THIS, but he's a nice guy - 20 mins, then all the hosts whining about statistics being hard to understand or boring while an economist broke down the election in simple terms.
CNN: The guy from Extreme Home Makeover is doing a thing for veterans and other softball pieces

The level of stupidity on cable news is farking insulting.

And as long as they insist on putting graphics on a screen then pointing a camera at the screen I refuse to watch on principle. Just put the damn graphics on MY screen. I don't need a middle-cameraman.

InmanRoshi: It's amazing how much people care about cable news ratings. The whole medium is increasingly irrelevant. Even Fox News' ratings are crap, as conservatives are now moving to "new media" (ie chain email)

I'm FW: FW: FW: FW:ing this to everyone I know.

ModernPrimitive01: When I get ready for work in the morning I tune to CNN morning shows for background noise. Their actual news coverage is crap. instead of talking about the issues or current events, they always go with interviewing some celebrity. When they do get a decent interview they either A. let them go through their talking points without any sort of challenge to what they're saying or B. try to ask them the "hard" questions which usually consists of interrupting the speaker constantly to ask really dumb questions.

Don't forget talking about what random people on Twitter are saying.

bionicjoe: And as long as they insist on putting graphics on a screen then pointing a camera at the screen I refuse to watch on principle. Just put the damn graphics on MY screen. I don't need a middle-cameraman.


or i love how ESPN and CNN love to show a guy standing in front of a 64" HDTV with either poll results, electoral college votes, salary cup numbers, playoff projections, free agent moves, etc., and then shows the guy dragging and dropping the data from here to there on this giant farking tv. (and also, how the drag and drop feature always sucks; he's like, "ok.......hhhhhhhhheere.....ok hold on........hhhhhhhere, if we take this.....and ......move it........hold on....come on.....hhhhhhhhhhhere we go.....ok......."

i knwo, marshall mcluhan, "the medium is the message", but....come one.


"Yo dawg, we heard you like HDTV so what we did, is we put a guy playing HDTV on your HDTV because we heard you like HDTV so we are showing a guy on your HDTV but he's playing with an HDTV so you can watch HDTV of a guy playign with HDTV on your HDTV in HDTV so you watch HDTV while you get your HDTV on because we heard you like HDTV, dog."

rickythepenguin: i love how ESPN and CNN love to show a guy standing in front of a 64" HDTV with either poll results, electoral college votes, salary cup numbers, playoff projections, free agent moves, etc., and then shows the guy dragging and dropping the data from here to there on this giant farking tv. (and also, how the drag and drop feature always sucks; he's like, "ok.......hhhhhhhhheere.....ok hold on........hhhhhhhere, if we take this.....and ......move it........hold on....come on.....hhhhhhhhhhhere we go.....ok......."


I saw NASCAR doing that as well. they had Ricky or Terry or Rickie or Bobby or Kenny or Dale or Junior or Ricky Bobby Junior or Rickie Terry or Kenny Ricky or Dale Bobby or Dale Dale or Junior Kenny or Ricky Rickie or Rickie Ricky Junior moving various teams around on the board and i'm like, godammit.

Just put the shiat on my screeen and move it the conventional way. Televising a guy playing with a TV, and poorly at that, is just a waste of time.

Whoops, guess you didn't forget about them. Wish I could.

The only thing worth watching on CNN

Beerguy: The only thing worth watching on CNN

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A looker,but so are Soledad O'Brien,Suzanne Malveux(my future wife) and Ashleigh Banfield. What makes her so special?