CNN's new idea to challenge Bill O'Reilly at Fox News, and Keith Olbermann at MSNBC, flopped beyond imagination on Monday night, but what do you expect from a television show featuring a Conservative In Name Only writer (Kathleen Parker), and a whoring ex-Governor (Eliot Spitzer) analyzing the political news.
So how bad was it?
Bill O'Reilly took the evening with 3.1 million viewers on Fox News, Keith Olbermann took second with 1.1 million viewers on MSNBC, and "Parker Spitzer" attracted a grand total of 454,000 viewers on CNN, once a grand network, but now a third class laughingstock.
Could those numbers get any worse?
Yes. Nancy Grace received 468,000 viewers on HNN, the sister-network of CNN. Not even one of America's well known former Governors could receive more than five hundred thousand folks on prime time. That is just depressing from my point of view, because I use to watch CNN all the time when Fox was not available to me on Dish Network.
Once again, I would like to offer my services to CNN. I would host the 8pm slot from a right-of-center perspective, where political news would be absolute king and investigative journalism would be a crucial element. CNN should put me on the air, they have nothing to lose in doing so.
Any thoughts?
What?! A disgraced politician and a no-name co-host on a hardly watched news channel had terrible ratings? Who would thunk it?
ReplyDeleteI think the only way someone could have thought it was a good idea, was by listening to other navel-gazers inside the industry with no regard for the viewers' likely tastes. They should not have fired Rick Sanchez; liberal as he was, he was more interesting than Kathleen Parker.
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