CNN Now Losing In Ratings to... Nick-at-Night

First you take their prestige.

Then you take their credibility.

Then you take their respectability.

Finally, the ratings take care of themselves.

Last week, more Americans tuned in to watch re-runs of “Yogi Bear,” “Full House,” and “Friends” on Nick At Nite than to watch Anderson Cooper and Don Lemon’s shows on CNN. According to cable ratings from the week of June 26-July 2, CNN’s viewership of its primetime shows was ranked significantly lower than its competitors like Fox News and MSNBC, which place first and second respectively. Clocking in at No. 10 on the list, CNN fell behind HGTV, Nick At Nite, History Channel, and ESPN — the sports network that’s been hemorrhaging viewers for months.

Number 10.

Meanwhile, via Instapundit's choice excerpts, do enjoy this pungent, gloatacious column by Kurt Schlichter: We Should Cheer CNN's Ritual Suicide.

This is a point that can't be made enough: Alleged "principle," which are really self-serving nonce rules invented for the instant situation and to be discarded at the next one, are the last refuge of the scoundrel:

Now, before we move on, someone is going to point out that the meme guy is kind of a jerk and said stuff that offends decent people. So? How is that the point? This is a multi-billion dollar media corporation using all its power to threaten an individual into not criticizing it. How is that ever okay? And don't pretend for a minute this media extortion precedent gets limited to outlier Reddit guys. Normal Americans are next. CARTOONS | GLENN MCCOY

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The media babbles about “principles,” but as soon as they become inconvenient then out the window go those precious “principles.” A silly wrestling gif supporting the president “promotes violence against the media,” but a week before that funding a play where President Trump is stabbed to death was artful political commentary? That’s my objection to all this recent “principles” talk. They are never actually promoting “principles.” It is always a scam and a pose designed to stop other people from acting in, or defending, their own interests. These “principles” never, ever require the people allegedly holding them to not act in, or defend, their interests. CNN has all sorts of “principles” it uses to bludgeon its opponents, none of which ever seem to limit CNN’s own actions. How convenient.

They really are destroying themselves. I never thought I'd see this day. I really didn't.