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: Glenn Reynolds jokes that FoxNews’ lead over CNN is declining now that CNN is paying attention to blogs. Well, actually, MSNBC President Rick Kaplan said at a Harvard confab weeks ago that he can track ratings growth in shows to blog diligence. He’s not including blogs in his network’s shows because he thinks we’re cute.
: If that is true, then the CBS Evening News could use some bloggin’. (Last night, by the way, Bob Schieffer marveled at podcasting.)
If CNN is doing better, it’s because it looked just like Fox during Schiavo, Pope Paul, Pope Benedict and everything religious. CNN may have woken to the fact dems, progressives, lefties, etc., have no where to go (MSNBC looks like Foxlite), so what if they curried favor with the Fox crowd? Win-win for them? Or, maybe not. We’ll see.
I think you are wrong. Nancy Grace is pulling in viewers. Although it is a court TV make over, it carries a conservative line. Put them in jail and throw away the key. She is pulling viewers. Even I watch CNN when she is on.