CNN moves to the right to more directly compete with Fox News, starts hemorrhaging viewers at alarming rate. MSNBC stifles case of the giggles.

"Wait, how many have left? Is it the beard? Is it too Marxist looking?"

Courtesy of TV by the Numbers:

The bad ratings news for CNN keeps rolling in. 

May 2012* was CNN’s lowest month in primetime for total viewers in over 20 years (since October 1991). It was also CNN’s second lowest-rated month in over 20 years in the news target adults 25-54 demographic. 

The hour by hour ratings situation was also grim. CNN’s 9pm show, Piers Morgan Tonight, delivered CNN's lowest-rated hour in more than 20 years in both P2+ and in A25-54. Erin Burnett OutFront drew CNN's worst adults 25-54 demo in the 7pm timeslot in over 20 years. 

Compared to May, 2011, CNN lost more than half of its audience in both primetime and total day in both total viewers and in the adults 25-54 demographic. The majority of CNN’s programs lost more than half of their viewership compared to the same time period last month.

Here is more courtesy of Politicususa:

CNN’s problems started when the network bosses got the bright idea that they should try to copy Fox News, and move to the right. After climbing into bed with the Tea Party Express and hiring far right wingers Erick Erickson and Dana Loesch led to the current ratings disaster, what would you expect CNN to do? 

 If you said hire more right wingers and conservatives, congratulations, you are qualified for an upper management position at CNN. The network’s latest hire, Fox News castoff Margaret Hoover, let the cat out the bag, “Executives at CNN have been looking for fresh faces and new talent with conservative perspectives, and in the end, offered me an opportunity that was too good to pass up. Indeed, competition, that sturdy pillar of capitalism, is alive and well in the cable news industry.”

Good strategy, IF you are working to help MSNBC rise to the top of the cable news market that is.

Oh CNN!  Did you REALLY think those low information viewers were going to leave the Fox News pablum, for YOUR Wolf Blitzer spiced infotainment? What could you possibly have been thinking?

Besides even IF you had managed to lure a few viewers away, you DO realize that the majority of Fox viewers are elderly and just barely clinging to life right?  Not to mention the fact that Fox News is itself also losing viewers at an amazing rate, most likely due to attrition.

Personally I have a theory that most of the viewers of Fox News are stuck in waiting rooms, living in old folks homes, or committed to state run mental institutions where they don't have access to the TV remote control. Because if they did, HELLO Rachel Maddow!