Lou Dobbs' Birther Madness Causes His Ratings to Plummet

[Lorax7844]

http://gawker.com/5326902/lou-dobbs-birther-madness-causes-his-ratings-to-plummet

Mr. Dobbs' first began reporting on Obama birth certificate conspiracy theories on the night of Wednesday, July 15. In the roughly two weeks since then, from July 15 through July 28, Mr. Dobbs' 7 p.m. show on CNN has averaged 653,000 total viewers and 157,000 in the 25-54 demo.

By contrast, during the first two weeks of the month (July 1 to July 14) Mr. Dobbs averaged 771,000 total viewers and 218,000 in the 25-54 demo. In other words, Mr. Dobbs' audience has decreased 15 percent in total viewers and 27 percent in the demo since the start of the controversy.


Ha Ha

[bkkyosemite]

1. Maybe Faux News will offer him a slot.

[havocmom]

2. Hey look, Rachel is doin a happy dance

Yee haw

[Cha]

3. Like the president of msnbc says.. "It's racist"

and loudobbs doesn't care if he gets ratings or not..as long as the president of cnn will let him bring on the racists.

[democracy1st]

4. thanks I needed to hear this

[Maru Kitteh]

5. Wow. - n.o.b.o.d.y - watches that guy. Why does he even have a show?

Rick Sanchez
Solidad O'Brien
Don Lemon
Jack Cafferty
Dr. Gupta
Christiane Amanpour
James Carville
Michael Ware


I don't like all of them, but I think any of them (and some others) would be able to draw a larger audience.

[flyarm]

6. be careful what you wish for..........

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.news-media/browse_thread/thread/01fc2b690496e4cf/2208ca084b53c27a?lnk=raot

July 2009 Cable News Ratings: FOXNews Destroys Everyone -- Surprise -- Has "Most Growth In Younger Demo"

July Ratings: FOXNews Beats MSNBC & CNN Combined Day and Prime Time
Tuesday, July 28, 2009

FOXNews continued its cable news dominance in July not only beating
CNN and MSNBC combined, but showing the most growth in the younger
demo. In A25-54 viewers, FNC is up 48% in total day, and up 70% in
primetime, compared to July '08.


FNC had 9 of the top 10 shows in cable news in Total Viewers and ranks
as the third most-watched basic cable channel behind USA and TNT.

snip:

- In the key 25-54 demographic, FNC expanded upon an already dominant
lead in Prime Time averaging 530,000 viewers surging 70% compared with
CNN's 377,000 (up 40%) and MSNBC's 252,000 (flat). In total day, FNC
averaged 301,000 (up 48%) compared to CNN’s 231,000 (up 39%) and
MSNBC's 143,000 (down 7%). Meanwhile, CNN’s latest failure in Prime
Time, Campbell Brown, finished in fourth place in 25-54 behind FNC,
HLN and MSNBC at 8:00pm ET.


- In Prime Time, FNC bested CNN and MSNBC combined with an average of
2,071,000 viewers (up 43%) during July 2009, compared with CNN's
1,127,000 (up 39%) and MSNBC’s 738,000 (up 24%). In total day, FNC
also rated higher than the competition combined with 1,138,000 total
viewers (up 36%) compared

[maglatinavi]

9. FOX

i DON'T BELIEVE IT...

[bkkyosemite]

11. I don't either!

[sorrowspath]

7. Time to teach the crazy media a lesson

Let's email all the sponsors of his show and tell them we are not gonna buy their products as long as they advertise on his show. Let's start with Nestle
http://www.nestleusa.com/Public/ContactUs.aspx

then Kellogs

http://www2.kelloggs.com/ContactUs.aspx

then the rest. Let's exercise our power to plunge ratings by turning off the TV and through boycott. The media needs to be taught a lesson that we watch news to get facts not krap

[rg302200]

12. Done

Good idea

[goclark]

14. I told them that their products will no longer be needed at my house

My statement.. Fox News is an insult to the intelligence of the American People.

I will not used your products ever again.

[applegrove]

8. I hope the same thing happened to all the other pundits who tried to pass on the birther story.

[optimal-tomato]

10. Oh how I wish that were true...

But Dobb's better ratings in the first half of July were due to Michael Jackson's death, which spiked CNN up to #1 briefly. Since then, it's been a slow steady decline, and will probably settle down to early June levels.

Maybe you're right and the birther stuff has hurt him, but I would compare Dobbs last week with Dobbs from a month and a half ago. That'd be your best gauge.

[blondeatlast]

13. Those damn Messcanz must be responsible. They pooled their money and hired Orly Taitz

in an effort to make a laughing stock of poor ol' Dobbsie.

It worked, too! :rofl: