I guess you just can’t be in the middle when you’re covering news: “CNN, founded in 1980 and now owned by Time Warner Inc, has tried to hold the middle ground in its news coverage, a position that some blame for its ratings erosion, while ratings have risen for competitors Fox News and MSNBC, which blend news with opinion and political commentary.”
Here are the tv ratings to prove it: “From last September until the week ended July 22, CNN has trailed both networks, pulling in an average of 584,000 total viewers in primetime, compared with Fox's 1.82 million viewers and MSNBC's 726,000 viewers, according to Nielsen.”
Fox News is the most unabashedly biased news network on TV, and they’re, by far, the largest: more than twice as many viewers as MSNBC and three times CNN’s.
It makes you wonder if that’s the only way to do it: must you pick a side? You can’t be neutral. I was trying to be neutral with Wopular for the longest time. I try my best to show both sides of the story.
Lately, I’ve started to pick a side. I’m siding with the Democrats because I just can’t stand the way Fox News distorts the truth. Everything is so overly exaggerated to benefit Republicans. I also can’t stand that party in congress. It seems like all they’re doing is trying to waste taxpayers’ money and time by blocking Barack Obama’s policies.
Traffic has been steady on Wopular, so it’s too early to tell whether or not picking a side helps on the internet. Plus, there are lots of things that can affect traffic, so even if it increases, isolating the source of the increase will be tough.
Look at CNN’s internet traffic. Excluding Yahoo News, which is an aggregation site, CNN has been the top news site for a while, with nearly 40M unique visitors for the month of May, 2012, according to Nielsen. That’s about twice as much as Fox News (21M) and 30% higher than MSNBC (30M).
