DOBBS’ RATINGS DIVE AFTER REPORTING ON BIRTHER THEORY
Note to self: Making up news stories won’t help your ratings. Since opinionated CNN news anchor Lou Dobbs began reporting on a conspiracy theory story that suggested President Barack Obama wasn’t born in the United States, his ratings have fallen some 15 percent. In two weeks.
Dobbs began reporting on the Obama birth certificate story — circulated by the hard right — on Wednesday, July 15. In the following two weeks, his Nielsen ratings dived — reducing his overall viewers from an estimated 771,000 to 653,000. Among the 25-54 demographic, his ratings fared even worse: Dobbs’ average viewers dropped from 218,000 to 157,000. That’s a decline of 28 percent. READ MORE…
Posted: July 31st, 2009 under LA Topics, The Mario Solis-Marich Show.
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