Media Meltdown Continues

Yesterday I posted about legacy media dissing bloggers while print media is in meltdown.

NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION IS IN DECLINE, especially where "quality" circulation is concerned: The Prudential Equity Group issued a biting 72-page report this morning on the state of circulation and found that both quality and quantity continue to decline.

How bad are things? Well, CBS News Senior Foreign Correspondent Tom Fenton says, "We know we could have saved thousands of lives if we had done more to bring the public's attention to the threat of an Al-Qaeda attack in the years before 9/11. What we must ask now is why did we fail?"

Today comes more proof that the public are fed up with the lying liberal press.

The ratings are in for February, and the numbers are not good for CNN which saw steep losses in its viewership, while the Fox News Channel continued its rise.

According to Nielsen Media Research, CNN's ratings fell by 21 percent last month in primetime, and 16 percent overall, reports Variety. [...]

In contrast, Fox News was the only news network on cable to see viewership increases in February, as it outpaced all other cable news companies combined for the sixth straight month.

[Got that? "...all other cable news companies combined ..." Combined!!]

"FNC averaged 1.57 million viewers in primetime, up 18 percent from the same period last year, while CNN fell 21 percent to 637,000 viewers from the same time period," Variety stated. [...]

CNN wasn't the only network to plunge last month. MSNBC dropped 15 percent overall and 14 percent in primetime. CNBC fell 23 percent overall and 42 percent in primetime.

Though not as dramatic, yet, The BBC is losing viewers in droves.

Figures published tomorrow [10 Jan 2005} will show that the BBC's audience share has fallen to its lowest level for years. Industry body Barb (the Broadcasters' Audience Research Board), will report that the BBC's overall share of viewers dropped from 38.3 per cent in 2003 to 36.62 per cent in 2004, a fall of just under 4.5 per cent

Unfortunately, since the BBC are funded by us taxpayers, they don't care about ratings or the truth.

I'll update what I said yesterday.

With falling newspaper sales, declining viewership, the take down of Dan Rather and Eason Jordon, it is little wonder that legacy media are launching an all out assault on bloggers. Bloggers have the ultimate weapon with which to fight back and ironically that same weapon is available to legacy media. It's called the truth.
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