]> 2026-04-10T13:19:59+00:00 CNN Collapse Lie - Workflow 0 en I think this was a lie. Indeed, it is a mix of lies and truth by the way the opinion piece was written to back the truth of the title. The actual ratings in 2020 were the best ever while 2021 was lower and the second half still lower, but they fired the top producer Cuomo then. My suspicion was that Zucker...the guy who made Trump by giving him the "Apprentice" job, and who probably manipulated the 'attacks' on Trump in CNN (with Cuomo) was actually a Trumpist Their opinion was less credible and left Zucker as an anti-Trumpist and incompetent. https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/592969-cnns-collapse-is-now-complete The actual ad ratings that fell 90% happened just recently but only for prime time (it is still the 3rd best cable channel .. and has been that solidly). And, they fired their top producer (by far) in the second half. The title in any even is a big lie. No matter what. https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/2021-ratings-cnn-has-its-2nd-most-watched-year-ever-but-sees-sharp-declines-in-2nd-half/496930/ https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/2020-ratings-cnn-averages-most-viewers-in-its-40-year-existence-and-ends-year-by-dominating-in-demo/466472/ CNN will also close out 2021 as one of the five-most-watched networks in all of cable in all dayparts. In Total Day, the network ranks No. 3 in total day and No. 5 in primetime. CNN was also among the 10-most-watched cable networks in 2021 among adults 25-54, coming in at No. 5 in Total Day and No. 9 in primetime. Overall, CNN averaged 1,078,000 total viewers in prime time, 268,000 adults 25-54 in prime time, 773,000 total viewers across the 24-hour day and 185,000 adults 25-54 across the 24-hour in 2021. What do these figures look like compared to its final 2020 ratings? Well, CNN fell -40% in total prime time viewers, -48% in the prime time demo (adults 25-54), -32% in total viewers across the 24-hour day and -40% among adults 25-54 across the 24-hour day. TheHill.com CNN's collapse is now complete BY JOE CONCHA, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR — 02/06/22 11:00 AM EST 3,817THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY CONTRIBUTORS ARE THEIR OWN AND NOT THE VIEW OF THE HILL 936 Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Just In... US figure skater tests positive for COVID-19 at Olympics INTERNATIONAL — 5M 33S AGO Frontier, Spirit Airlines merge in $6.6B deal BUSINESS & LOBBYING — 15M 42S AGO Investigation finds top Biden science adviser bullied subordinates: report ADMINISTRATION — 21M 5S AGO New Jersey governor ending school mask mandate: report HEALTHCARE — 44M 4S AGO VIEW ALL It all began 42 years ago — Ted Turner's creation of a 24/7 news network that would exist on something called cable TV. Few believed it could succeed. And, for its first decade, CNN largely chugged along but wasn't seen as a game-changer or a true competitor to big broadcast news entities based in New York in the form of CBS, NBC and ABC. That all changed when war broke out between the United States and Iraq in 1991. On the night war exploded over Baghdad, CNN was the only news organization that was able to broadcast from the city under siege as the U.S. onslaught began, all courtesy of the CNN team’s ability to convince the Iraqi government to grant them a line out of the city to broadcast, one that the competition could not secure. "How CNN Won the War" was the glowing headline from The Washington Post on a story that perfectly chronicled the events that led to CNN officially becoming a major player. And off it went. Until 2002, CNN was No. 1 in the cable news race. But competition that hadn't existed before ended its dominance forever, primarily in the form of Fox News and, to a lesser extent, MSNBC. Despite the ratings results, CNN continued to carry itself as a credible, facts-first network of integrity that leaned heavily on solid reporting with a sprinkling of opinion and infotainment mixed in via programs such as "Larry King Live" and "Crossfire." In 2013, the network hired former NBC Universal President Jeff Zucker to take the reins as ratings continued to be below average at best. This gave Zucker a mandate to radically change the network from its journalistic roots of more than three decades — the months-long wall-to-wall coverage of a missing Malaysian airliner being an early example. But two years later, the move to insert heavy doses of partisan opinion into its news reports only accelerated when former President Trump — a Zucker hire at NBC for "The Apprentice" — jumped in to the 2016 presidential race. At first, CNN bear-hugged Trump's every move. (Hillary Clinton's giving a speech somewhere? Screw it. Let's show an empty Trump podium with chyrons stating "Trump to speak soon" instead.) The real estate mogul's 17 Republican challengers never had a shot; Trump blotted out the sun in terms of media coverage on his way to winning the nomination. At that point, Zucker and CNN began to worry. Because while it was a ratings boon for the network to make Trump the centerpiece, there was growing concern that the guy could actually beat Hillary and become the nation's 45th president. So Zucker unleashed the hounds, but it was too late. Trump would go on to shock the world in November 2016. Undeterred, CNN decided there would be no honeymoon period for the new president. Talk about Russian collusion handing Trump the White House began even before the inauguration. And after the nonstop Trump-bashing, Harvard University concluded that CNN led the way, along with Zucker's former home of NBC, in giving Trump 93 percent negative coverage in his first 100 days. For the next four years, CNN served as the leading media resistance to Trump, throwing objectivity out the window. And after President Biden got elected, the network cheered the new president as it had throughout the entire campaign while still making Trump a prime centerpiece for over-the-top negative coverage despite his being out of office. But as much as CNN tried to resurrect its lead character — who was banned from social media and largely off the grid for the year — his absence clearly showed the network was a one-trick partisan pony. Ratings fell 90 percent overall when comparing January 2021 to January 2022. That’s hard to do. Which brings us to the events of this week: Zucker released a statement saying he had to resign because of a consensual affair with an executive named Allison Gollust. WarnerMedia apparently has a rule against this, so Zucker — instead of a slap on the wrist for a benign offense — simply had to go abruptly. Nobody believed this excuse. Turns out they may have had plenty of reason to be skeptical. Per several reports, Zucker and Gollust allegedly advised then-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) – the older brother of then-CNN anchor Chris Cuomo — on what to say during his COVID-19 daily briefings in the spring of 2020. They also reportedly told Cuomo how to respond to and how to criticize Trump, to make it more compelling TV. (Gollust is a former communications director for Andrew Cuomo.) Let's unpack all of this: In the spring of 2020, the country was in a horrific place. Businesses shut completely; people were scared. There were no COVID-19 therapeutics, no vaccines. Hospitals were overwhelmed, thousands were dying each day. If ever there was a time for news organizations to educate and inform the public, this was it. Instead, Zucker apparently believed it was the perfect time to exploit the situation for political gain and to help the network's ratings. Andrew Cuomo benefited from briefings that made him appear to be the adult in the room regarding COVID-19 and Trump appear to be the villain. Cuomo got a $5.1 million book deal as a result. Chris Cuomo and Zucker/Gollust/CNN benefited from marathon interviews with Cuomo's governor/brother, which didn't touch the governor's alleged nursing home scandal. Ratings soared. So, was Zucker's departure simply about a consensual relationship with a co-worker? One might be forgiven for questioning that. Moving forward, what's next for CNN when the company falls under the Discovery Channel umbrella later this year? Let's hear from its soon-to-be largest shareholder, John Malone of Liberty Media. "I would like to see CNN evolve back to the kind of journalism that it started with, and actually have journalists, which would be unique and refreshing," Malone said in an interview that recently aired on CNBC. Espresso's popularity is booming. Now is a great time to learn how to... Andrew Yang in now-deleted tweet: 'I don't think Joe Rogan is a... The collapse of CNN is now complete: 9 out of 10 viewers, gone. Its top-rated anchor, Chris Cuomo, gone. Its network president, gone. Its integrity in shambles. 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