The month of May has been a terrible for CNN. The former cable news giant has struggled to cling onto it’s remaining viewers and stay afloat in the realm of “fake news.”
CNN’s Jake Tapper averaged over a million total viewers, and roughly 300,000 age demographic viewers in 2017 — but this year, his numbers continue to plummet.
May of 2017, CNN’s press release read Tapper “was #1 in cable news this month in the all-important demo.” Since then, his numbers have seen a shocking 32 percent decline.
The big kicker is that his biggest competitor — Fox News — is beating him in total viewers, and critics are blaming his poor numbers in part to his ties to fake news and their link to establishment propaganda.
Fox News’ Neil Cavuto averages roughly 1.4 million viewers, while Tapper only averages roughly 785,000 total viewers.
Even at MSNBC, Nicole Wallace who has no journalism experience, is averaging over 1.245 million viewers. What an embarrassment!
According to Breitbart, “Tapper’s ratings woes are in part tied to the fake news albatross that is the far-left CNN. CNN’s well-documented and ongoing credibility problems have devastated the anti-Trump channel’s ratings, which have already collapsed by some -30 percent this month.”
While CNN has been experiencing many scandals in the last year, Tapper has made no efforts to separate himself from the mainstream media. In fact, Tapper has ruined his own reputation by diving farther into the left-wing media.
Breitbart reports,”Before CNN chief Jeff Zucker came along, Tapper made his reputation standing apart from the rest of the establishment media, a largely left-wing institution dedicated to protecting the Democrat Party.”
“To the surprise of many who used to admire Tapper’s independence, The Lead with Jake Tapper has devolved into just another hour of CNN, another indistinguishable hour of humorless Trump-bashing, uninteresting moral outrage, and predictable talking points.”
MSNBC has a reputation for bashing President Donald Trump, as does CNN, but unfortunately for CNN they are unable to change gears once in awhile. Their topics never change. For instance, they spent a whopping 6 percent on airtime in the first two weeks of March only discussing porn star Stormy Daniels.
CNN’s motto has always been that scandals make the best news — but these days, Americans are just not buying it.
The network’s credibility problems are not only to blame for Tapper’s struggling ratings, his own “fake news” scandals have dug him into a deeper hole.
Just last June the network was in a panic after his show “The Lead,” aired a fake National Enquirer cover in a jab at Trump.
Tapper’s Sunday morning talk show, “State of the Union” has even seen horrible ratings. Last Sunday, Tapper reeled in 798,000 viewers, while a rerun on Fox News pulled in over 1.061 million.
If liberals needed anymore proof that “fake news” does not win them ratings, here it is.
–The Horn editorial team