What CNN really doesn't want you to know

I was watching CNN last night, and I noticed that Anderson Cooper's prime time show must have made the comment "the best news team/best political news on television" so many times that I lost count. What I found even more interesting was the next day in the New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/27/business/media/27rating.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&ref=todayspaper&adxnnlx=1256666567-ru7DyOrsxx5q0hBtzHH67Q) in which it was pointed out that CNN comes dead last of all the cable television news programs, in almost EVERY category. I noticed that CNN's page has no link to this story at all. Couldn't find it anywhere. You might kinda wonder why they might want to avoid revealing that fact to potential subscribers.

Turns out Fox News is beating them on practically ever front. Andersoon Cooper was dead fourth. Studio execs for CNN kept stating that Cooper was their strongest news hitter. Turns out he's not. He got beat by Nancy Grace's RECAST of her show from an earlier period.

I've always found Anderson Cooper an interesting entity because I really think CNN thought he was their cool guy for young people to watch, but never actually tested him on the demographic. Just sort of assumed he'd draw in the numbers. And then when that didn't happen, they thought he'd bring in the older crowd because of his news gumption skills. Funny, but that didn't happen either. To me, he always seemed like a nice guy with no real purpose that people kept hoping would come into his own because he's like the guy who is married to the owner's daughter. You want him to do well, only because it might hurt the marriage. Except, I don't think he's married to anyone important at CNN, so that doesn't work out that way.

Oh well. Good luck next time, CNN.

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