{"id":32614,"date":"2009-06-09T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T02:20:15","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T02:20:15","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T02:20:15","slug":"rush_s_morning_update_the_gutter_june_10_2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2009\/06\/09\/rush_s_morning_update_the_gutter_june_10_2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Rush\u2019s Morning Update: The Gutter\r\n\r\nJune 10, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rush\u2019s Morning Update: The Gutter<\/strong><\/line>June 10, 2009<\/strong><\/strong><\/line><\/line>Watch It!<\/strong> <\/strong>Download Morning Update Video in QuickTime<\/a><\/line>Listen to It!<\/strong> Windows Media Player<\/strong><\/a>|RealPlayer<\/strong><\/a> <\/line><\/p>\n

Ratings for two of the government-controlled cable news networks are in the toilet. If you add the audiences of CNN and MSNBC together, they still lag far behind the Fox News Channel.<\/p>\n

Reese Schonfeld, the co-founder of CNN, has an explanation why they are doing so poorly. More like second-rate excuses than an explanation but here they are. First, Mr. Schonfeld thinks moderates middle-of-the-road types have stopped watching cable news because they have better things to do than watch the pundit class discuss politics. Second, Schonfeld claims many “generous souls accept that Obama\u2019s doing the best he can in a very tough job, and they don\u2019t want to hear the details because they know the stars are not shining on America right now.”<\/p>\n

Reese Schonfeld\u2019s third excuse for CNN\u2019s and MSNBC\u2019s dismal failure: “Maybe it\u2019s simply the need for an enemy,” he says. “The desire to detest is greater than the power to tolerate; maybe it\u2019s the need to blame somebody else for the bad things that are happening in our lives that drives viewers to Fox.”<\/p>\n

Hey, Reese. Here\u2019s another thought. Maybe your programs just plain suck. They\u2019re not journalism. Your network has become what Pravda was back in the old days of the USSR. Just a cheap propaganda machine for the ruling party. So enjoy the ratings gutter. And too bad that “hope and change” thing just isn\u2019t working out for ya!<\/p>\n

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