Mediaite, I’m sure you’re proud of yourself for landing CNN as a sponsor, but are you so desperate for money you will allow your advertisers to lie? You have a major credibility gap as a critical media watchdog when you don’t challenge CNN’s claim to be #1.

So, how much are your rates? I would like to buy a home page ad on Mediaite claiming I am the handsomest man alive. Of course, that’s a total crock, but as long as my check clears, you won’t stop me, right?

Time for the people running this web site to prove to prove they have professional standards.

Lie? CNN is one of the biggest news organizations in the world. Fox News are peanuts in comparison. Prime time cable news viewership isn’t everything.

That’s cute, M. Allow me to effortlessly poke holes in your argument.

1. If CNN were No. 1 in prime time cable news viewership, you can bet they would treat it like the Holy Grail. In fact, they have fallen to No. 3 or No. 4.

2. If CNN were No. 1 in viewers throughout the day, I would give them a pass. No one, and I mean NO ONE disputes that CNN runs a distant second to Fox in total viewers and demo viewers when you calculate the full 24-hour programming day.

3. CNN is in fact one of the biggest organizations, you are right. And yet, when something major happens, they are no longer the cable news network that most people turn to. If their argument is that real journalism matters, why do most people turn to Fox to see what’s going on when journalism counts most, i.e. when news is breaking?

They can run all the serious-looking black and white ads they want, but CNN looks like an emperor with no clothes when it claims to be No. 1.

M sez : “Prime time cable news viewership isn’t everything”…

Uhhh, yeah, it really is.

Technically speaking, CNN is NOT lying in their ad here.
Considering their monthly CUME (number of unduplicated viewers) exceeds 100 million (about 12 million above Fox), and their website CNN.com is one of the most visited sites on the INTERNET…..more people DO turn to CNN than any other news source.
(and that’s ignoring the huge reach of CNNi, and the sucess of HLN – all which fall under the CNN banner)

Considering CNN primetime only makes up 10% of CNN Worldwide’s total revenues, the losses in their viewership there are widely exaggerated. CNN just doesn’t live and breathe on the successes (or failure) of Campbell Brown or Anderson Cooper.

I am worried now that Mediaite will only be pro leaning towards CNN now.
It is where there money is coming from… of course they dont want to make them mad… Anderson Cooper is so bias in his reporting. He is a commentary not a news journalist… Someone needs to tell CNN that.

Technically speaking, I am happy to admit Facebook User is right.

HOWEVER…

I would be interested to see in Facebook User will agree that I am right when I say that CNN is trying to claim it is No. 1 using the a yardstick while everyone else is on the metric system. When you use the same measuring stick everyone else in television uses, CNN is no longer No. 1.

Nope, it’s just you that’s obsessed with cable news ratings. Just stop nagging and arguing about something you know is just a waste of everybody’s time. You’ve already conceded that CNN is right.

“Nope, it’s just you that’s obsessed with cable news ratings.”

Right, me, and anyone who works in cable news. It’s only the pulse of the industry. Why would Mediaite run the ratings every day if they didn’t matter?

If you think Campbell Brown doesn’t care that she finishes fourth every night, then you don’t understand the business, and Brown doesn’t understand she’ll be out of a job by 2011.

Why do more and more people defend and attack News organizations? Same with defending politicians? It has turned into a team sport. Soon we’ll have over/under lines, at work News rating pools to go along side football pools to bet on.

Unless you work or has family/friends that work for a particlar news organization that their paychecks and way of life depends on it, WHO cares? Better question maybe is, WHY care?

Watch what you’re going to watch. Don’t watch what you’re not going to watch. Spending time convincing the legitimacy of Cable/MSM news is fruitless.

There is no Cable/MSM news BCS bowl systemgames, sorry. News organization will draw readers/viewers based on their news, entertaininment, jounalistic standards, ethics etc. OR Not.

If you don’t like the bias or political leanings of news organization (they ALL have them), don’t read or watch them.

Is this article about CNN? Actually the reason you should care about real news is because today’s reporters are not really competent. I posted this info on this site on Saturday. Since 1959 pirvate sector job growth under Republicans is 5.4% but, under Democrats private sector job growth is 11.7. What I didn’t mention was that I read this on the dailykos. And where did the dailykos get those numbers? From the Bureau of Labor Statistics. My point is that the press seems less interested in covering relavant stories. While Republicans are screaming right now about jobs it would be helpful for the public to know exactly who’s good at creating them and who is not. As for primetime cable news ratings being important. They’re really not.

Cable News Ratings for Friday, December 4, 2009
Prime Time
FNC – 2,265,000 viewers
CNN – 832,000 viewers
MSNBC –596,000 viewers
CNBC – 210,000 viewers
HLN –591,000 viewers

Now, below are broadcast news ratings. I chose the week of Thanksgiving where viewership is usually lower. They still crush the cable channels in total viewers. As you can see cable ratings are still very low by comparison.

Total Viewers: NBC: 9,680,000 / ABC: 8,190,000 / CBS: 6,220,000

It’s telling that the blogs and other news sites are where you get journalism and the news shows are where you get Baloon Boy, Octo mom, and social secretaries.

Excellent stats on the weak job growth performance by Republicans, roxsteady, – zero surprise for those of us observing this for many years.

Here’s one on the market growth under the vaunted Republican “pro-business” agenda:

In the approximately eighty years since The Great Depression, almost evenly split between D’s & R’s, the D’s averaged 8.9% growth and R’s .4%.

No wonder they have to be so much better at disseminating false propaganda (Fox) to burnish (obscure) their image.

By the way, Bill-O and many other of the top .1% have good reason to give more than passing grades to another Republican-lite corporate, “center-right” Democrat – making the Obama Marxist/Fascist/Communist slanders even more stupid than we all knew they were to start with.

Bill, I think you really need to start watching Glenn Beck!

Yes Butch, your right. Bill, you don’t get who Obama is yet. Grades where way off. He’s an F for all categories except destroying the American dream.

It’s just amazing how these comments appear on your website (they are-the LEFT. so afraid of loosing, they scramble for their facts) but, In fact all the facts are out there and we hear them everyday. Obama and his crew is NOT producing and you report it Bill and we decide.

Your grade on jobs is generous. Most people I’ve seen looking for jobs either have not found one or found a lesser position than their qualifications. I give him a C on jobs.

Wow Jim! Strong market numbers as well. I sense some skeptics here and some who appear to be immune to facts but, before I drop a few more nuggets on you all, I do have an update on Beck. He’s lost 30% of his younger viewers.

Now, further proof of Republican incompetency. From Think Progress: And by the way, this is why Liberals think the right is chock full of idiots.

Today, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) appeared on Fox Business and unleashed an angry tirade against the Democratic majority in Congress. As Fox host Alexis Glick fawned over the senior Republican senator — praising his characterization of Democrats’ policy ideas as “doggone stupid” — Hatch agreed that Democrats are trying to “socialize the country.”

But, here’s what Think Progress found:

While the country continues to face enormous economic problems — like a double-digit unemployment rate and the number of Americans on food stamps hitting an all-time high — there is little evidence that a return to the policies pursued by conservatives that Hatch favors would do anything to improve the situation.

During the last year of President Bush’s term, the median household income in the United States dropped 3.6 percent to $50,303, the sharpest drop since the government began keeping records in 1947. During Bush’s tenure, the number of Americans in poverty increased 26.1 percent, while child poverty jumped 21.4 percent. In total, the Bush years saw 8.3 million people fall into poverty.

There was one group, however, that did well under the Bush years Hatch seems to yearn for. The Congressional Budget Office found in 2007 that families “earning more than $1 million a year saw their federal tax rates drop more sharply than any group in the country as a result of President Bush’s tax cuts,” prompting the New York Times to conclude that “rich families were the undisputed winners from President Bush’s tax cuts.”

Now, I’m going to go out on a limb and assume that many of the same people who showed up at tea parties, and acted out in those embarrassing town halls back in August don’t make more than $250,000 dollars a year so, my question is, why are they whinning about taxes when they’ve received a tax cut? Whether you have a job or are on unemployment you’re able to keep more of your money. That is stupidity.

A “B” on jobs! Are you kidding! Jobs always increase at this time of year due to temporary holiday jobs, plus you must not be considering all of those that are underemployed. Obama and his party have done nothing to generate jobs. He deserves an “F”.

Healthcare: F for having Congress do his own work for him.
Jobs: Incomplete for being absent from class for months
Afghanistan: D for being late on the assignment.
Sent to detention for lying and blaming upper classmen for making school so hard.

Your grade on jobs is totally off base. We have a 10% unemplyment which had risen from 8% to as high as 10.2% in 10 months before it fell back slightly during the middle of the Christmas Season. The idea that Mr. Obama pulled us back from the brink on our economy has nothing to do with the jobs situation and it is greatly debatable as to whether he has improved the economy. I cannot give him any better than a C on jobs creation and realistically he should recieve no higher than a D.

For lolligagging around in making a decision when we are in a war situation in Afganistan he deserves nothing more than an F. I just hope he has not casued us to loose that war and it does not cause us a eat number of losses.

The health care stance is another F he is not listening to we the people and id soing as he D well peases and were the ones that will pay of it. It is time for our elected leaders to listen to their constuents and pass only what we agree for them to pass, PERIOD.

Bill O’Reilly is such a freaking nutball! Obama has done NOTHING about JOBS and this ignoramus gives him a B. I am through wasting my time watching him interrupt people and talk over them every night. He’s boorish, stupid and totally ignorant of what is happening in this country. So long, Bill O!

I’m just happy we don’t have a Republican President right now. We’d be at Depression-levels of unemployment.

You get an “F” on your rating of Pres O.
The man (Pres O) is a joke – get him out of the office and put someone who will stand for something/can say s
something except you vote for me I include you on my plate!

The man wanted to eleminate top executives in the auto industry – criticized top executives in the auto industry but did not have the gumption to call a spade a spade. The @#%!& Unions are the reason our country is going south! But “the Man” doesn’t have what it takes to say it right in front of the camera – remember the union members vote. I say “FIRE” the “MAN”!