Make all the jokes you wish about CNN and their 24/7 coverage of the missing Malaysian plane, expert interviewee after expert interviewee--but know it is paying handsomely. CNNs Cable rivals lean politically--Fox News to the right and MSNBC to the left--and make no bones about it. CNN has pretty much stuck to straight news reporting, and its audience has been chipped away as devotees of the other two have abandoned CNN. Somebody in charge at CNN told staffers something like the other news be damned, were going to OWN this story! Results are reported in todays NY Times: --NYT B1, CNNs Ratings Surge With Coverage Of the Mystery of the Missing Airliner, by NYTs Bill Carter: On CNN, the plane rises from misty clouds accompanied by an eerie background score ... Each of the broadcast networks began its evening newscast with stories on the plane every night last week, a consensus that happens once a year at most, according to Andrew Tyndall, who publishes a weekly report monitoring newscasts. ... CNNs ratings soared last week and over the weekend, rising by almost 100 percent in prime time. ... Last Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, the CNN 8 p.m. program, hosted by Anderson Cooper, beat ... Bill OReilly ... in ... viewers between the ages of 25 and 54.
Posted on: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 16:22:45 +0000
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