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Cable news ratings … some reasons to fret.

The below chart — jacked from Drudge – caught my for a couple of reasons:

  1. No surprise, the top 6 spots go to much maligned Fox
  2. Comedy Central – Stewart & Colbert – are categorized as “news” … say, what?
  3. Stewart & Colbert outdraw MSNBC’s big 3 – Maddow, Schultz, O’Donnell
  4. CNN is practically off the charts … down around free access viewer  levels

A couple of things trouble me …

Though I’m a Fox fan,  it’s sad to see CNN tank. I think they tend to have the best analyst panels and the most mature discussions. It’s too bad that they surrendered their neutrality.  Veering left of center has, in my opinion, cost them.

Drudge probably has the networks properly categorized.  The fact that a big swath of folks get their news from Comedy Central can’t be good.

All of the numbers – even O’Reilly – are miniscule as a percentage of total adult population.  That suggests that the vast majority people who get news – get it from the major networks via their local channels. Since, for example, the networks haven’t been covering the Libyan terrorist attack cover-up, that’s problematic.

Oh well ..

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