Biggest joke of all is believing CNN. it's a JOKE of a network, losing 42% of it's viewers in the past year Bahahahahahahaha lol
In summary: The ratings are
not down 42% over the entire last year, they are down 42%
over the same week last year. Last year CNN's ratings were artificially high due to the hurricane coverage and this year artificially low due to the ESPN's 2018 Open (CNN had little coverage). In reality CNN's ratings trend line has been steady for the last year (2018) and increased in 2017.
Breitbart the original source of b4u's information was very careful in it's wording: "the network was -36 percent in prime time viewers, and -41 percent in total day viewers
vs. the same week last year.” b4u took the Breitbart info and completely twisted the truth.
https://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2018/09/14/cnn-ratings-down-41-percent-from-last-year/
The source of the ratings information is:
https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/basic-cable-ranker-week-of-sept-3/376276 As you can see they are much more honest and comprehenisve in their analysis. "During the same same week in 2017, cable news provided wall-to-wall coverage of Hurricane Irma. Significant breaking news stories tend to give CNN a bigger ratings boost than what Fox News or MSNBC traditionally get." ESPN's coverage of the 2018 US Open jumped it's ratings this ratings week. CNN doesn't provide comprehensive coverage for sports, thus it's drop in viewership.
Let's not forget Fox is the main mainstream right cable news source and therefore doesn't compete for it's conservative audience. The left has CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC and BBC (and possibly ESPN). Each of the left sources compete for the same finite audience so if CNN dips it's usually because MSNBC (or whoever) jumps. The ratings continue to show that the left and right long term ratings trend lines have been steady the last year. All of the facts are available here for people who are actually still interested in facts:
https://www.scribd.com/document/388362906/Basic-Cable-Ranker-Week-of-Sept-3-Total-Viewers#from_embed
In summary: Another bullsh*t post from a far-right terbite easily debunked. Bahahahahahahaha lol