Great chart, left, courtesy of Inside Cable News, showing CNN's decline in the demo in living color.
And while we're talking the pure language of simple math, check out this numbers-don't-lie program ranker for the second quarter of '06, also over at ICN. It's a definite bookmark for handy future reference. Fox News continues to squash the competition mercilessly; CNN and MSNBC continue to search for new and different paper bags to wear over their heads. Like they say in the Navy SEALs: "Pays to be a winner."
Oh, and ouch, then there's this: another ICN chart showing another angle of CNN's free-fall and also, upon close examination, MSNBC's love of being lodged in quicksand. ICN points out:
At first glance this looks impressive for MSNBC but there are two signs that point to trouble for the network. First, it is clear from the following two charts that the gap closure has less to do with MSNBC’s gains than it has to do with CNN’s fall in the Demo. Second, MSNBC itself is trailing off a bit in the Demo this year so far.
Yeah, where's Anderson Cooper when you need him? Oh, uh, never mind.
