
CNN is fast falling apart, rendering itself completely inert as a viable news organization as its ratings continue to free-fall into near obscurity. Larry King, once the ratings crown-jewel of CNN, has lost half of his audience:
Mr. King’s audience dropped 43 percent for the quarter and 52 percent in March. He dropped to 771,000 viewers for the quarter from 1.34 million in 2009. More alarming perhaps, Mr. King, whose show has been regularly eclipsed by Rachel Maddow’s on MSNBC (and is almost quadrupled by Sean Hannity’s show on Fox), is now threatened by a new host, Joy Behar on HLN (formerly Headline News.)
Larry, you’re getting beat by Joy Behar? Perhaps you should have on more interesting guests that are actually relevant to the world we live on. You know, maybe give that charlatan Deepak Chopra a rest and bring on, oh, how about a fucking physicist? How about a scientist? How about people who are creating cutting-edge technology? Directors? Writers? Enough with the partisan hacks and religious nuts pushing disingenuous books, or faux-celebrities with their miracle cures and sexual addictions. It may not mean the difference between winning the ratings war, but at least you’ll lose with some integrity.
While the vast majority of CNN’s problems are directly attributable to programming, some of the blame has to rest with the American public, who, increasingly, gravitates towards partisan entertainers as their only news source, willingly leaving behind rational debate, perfectly happy to reinforce their current beliefs instead of expanding their horizons.
We’re doomed.



