Compromised News Network Loses 66% of Primetime Viewers

Once upon a time, in a galaxy not far away, CNN was the undisputed king of cable news. Now it's just another sad sack bleeding viewers like a stuck pig somewhere in the Middle East.

The primetime audience has cratered from roughly 1.3 million in 2016 to 553,000 now. "The decrease, from roughly 1.3 million in 2016 to 553,000 now, is fueling rumors of a possible network sale," The Daily Mail reported. 

Over the last decade, the once-mighty network has seen its primetime crowd shrink by nearly two-thirds. That's not a dip, that's a nosedive.

The numbers get even uglier when you zoom in on certain time frames. 

Sure, CNN had a nice little sugar rush during Donald Trump's 2016 ascent, but those gains eventually flipped into a full-blown catastrophe. In the golden 25-54 demo that advertisers drool over, things are downright apocalyptic. By early 2025, CNN was scraping by with a pathetic 118,000 primetime viewers in that group. That's about equivalent to an overloaded train in India.

The rot isn't confined to the evening hours either. Daytime viewing, once carried by reliable old hands like Wolf . . . Gasp . . . Blitzer, has plunged from 752,000 to 433,000. Compared to the same stretch in 2021, primetime is down 71 percent and daytime has tanked 73 percent.

All this glorious free-fall has unfolded amid a parade of executive musical chairs. 

Jeff Zucker bolted, Chris Licht's short reign was a dumpster fire, and now Mark Thompson is the guy trying to apply tourniquets. His big plan? Ditch the old-school TV roots and go all-in on digital, because apparently that's where the cool kids are these days.

The restructuring highlights include axing more than 200 staffers in early 2025 to fund the digital dreams, chasing mobile content that lets thumb-scrollers "flick" through stories like they're swiping on Tinder, launching a new streaming effort in late 2025 after the CNN+ fiasco proved what a genius idea that was the first time around, and somehow finding $70 million to throw at subscription food and fitness slop.

CNN lifers keep insisting this is just part of some grand industry migration to "alternative means" of getting news. Sure, tell that to the competition. 

In January 2025, The Daily Mail noted, "Fox News, however, has continued to fly high, capturing more than 70 percent of cable news’ audiences during primetime since (the 2024 election), as well as nearly 50 percent overall."

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The whole cable news landscape is shifting, except for the one network that's actually winning. Funny how that works.

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Another career criminal out on bond allegedly stabs young woman to death in D.C. hotel room

It's the same old disturbing story of a career criminal who's let out on bond committing yet another violent crime. This time it was in Washington, D.C. where a 43-year-old scumcrumpet who was put back on the streets, has been accused of stabbing a 31-year-old woman to death on Friday. He had allegedly been found in the room covered in Christy Bautista's blood after she had been stabbed by him no less than 22 times.

The victim was from Virginia and had been visiting D.C. for a concert and was staying at the Ivy City Hotel where the murder took place.

According to the outlet, security footage allegedly showed the killer entering Bautista’s hotel room around 6:45 p.m. after appearing to listen at the door to the room, possibly worried that she was staying with a man, which would have scared the coward away.

Several minutes later, the security footage shows the killer stepping into the victim's room and security cameras recorded the sounds of a possible struggle, court documents revealed. One witness reported seeing a distressed woman open the hotel room door, yelling for help before the killer pulled her back inside. 

The unnamed witness called 911.

The Daily Mail reported that when Bautista was murdered, the scumbag was out on bond in connection with armed robbery charges from October, describing the man as a “career criminal.”

WJLA reported a judge, not connected to NY District Attorney Alvin Bragg, had found probable cause to hold Bautista without bond on first-degree murder charges in this case.

Bautista’s family has set up a GoFundMe page to help raise money for her funeral expenses.

“Christy made an impact on everyone’s lives that she encountered. She was a shining light that lifted up everyone’s spirits around her. She encouraged people to do things they were afraid of and cheered them on,” the GoFundMe reads. “She showed them what true strength was through her courageous actions. She would remember one small, random thing you said and find any way to help. Her life was ended way too short by a cruel act of violence that she did not deserve.” 

It's time for the criminal justice system to take criminal justice seriously and advocate for the victims of crime instead of merely those who victimize them. 

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Environment cretin embarrasses himself after stunt fails miserably with an LOL effect

"Locking on" is the new trend among eco-activists of the world. This involves individuals with a strong desire to do something that they believe will make them seem important and better than you are, to glue themselves to a work of art, museum walls, or floors in order to draw attention to what they believe is a "climate crisis." 

It's unclear how this helps their cause and if anything, apparently hurts it due to the level of pissed-off it makes normal people become. This trend is has become global, at least in the West, where the government will not behead or otherwise kill you for this virtue signaling nonsense.

A young guy in Germany belonging to an environmental activism group Letzte [last] Generation, was pissed-off over emissions from the transport sector. The activists say that emissions are “persistently high and contribute to the destruction of our civilization,” even though he and his group have not actually measured the emissions. But so what--he and his fellow clean air warriors blocked traffic on a busy street in Mainz last week.

Dumb and dumber and dumber and dumber . . .

The translation from the German reads: “In #Mainz the traffic was stopped. Emissions from the transport sector are persistently high and contribute to the destruction of our civilization. We continue and call on all fellow human beings to join us! Together we can move politics to action!”

They failed to explain how blocking traffic and making people aware of how they feel about it can effect positive change, but that isn't the point. See, the point is that they are righteous ones and you planet polluters, with all your fancy cars and jobs and things, really suck.

So one of the learned geniuses of the group used a mixture of sand and superglue and glued the hand, he doesn't use to touch himself, to the pavement.

As it turned out, The Daily Mail reported that city police initially tried to dissolve the glue. But they don't call it superglue for nothing. Their attempts to free the inactivist didn't work so they tried power tools. 

The police eventually removed a section of the pavement upon which this moron's hand was glued and this ended the "What Should I Do" demo as the idiot had the concrete stuck to his hand. It looks as if it might stay that way for a while.

Eventually he pulls out a handkerchief and blows his nose and realizes how foolish he looks.

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And so the plot sickens between Clintons and Epstein: Report

A report published on Tuesday alleges that former President Bill "I Did Not Have Sex With That Woman" Clinton, and his wife, the two-time presidential Democratic loser Hillary Clinton, visited the New Mexico ranch of convicted pedophile and accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. The visits were reported to have taken place nearly every year since Bill Clinton left office after his second term.

“Bill and Hillary Clinton stayed at Jeffrey Epstein’s notorious ‘baby-making ranch’ almost every year after they left the White House, according to the disgraced financier’s estate manager,” The Daily Mail reported.

“The former president was Epstein’s closest ‘celebrity mate’ and the Clintons, along with daughter Chelsea, visited Zorro Ranch "a whole bunch of times," a former contractor who ran the IT system at the property told DailyMailTV in an exclusive interview.”

The Clintons never stayed in the main mansion on the sprawling 10,000 acre property but stayed in one of the guest houses.

“This is all according to security expert Jared Kellogg, who was brought in by long-standing ranch manager Brice Gordon to improve security and set up a camera system at the main house and ‘cowboy village’,” The Daily Mail continued. “Kellogg said that at the time of his site walk of Epstein’s property, he had barely any knowledge of Epstein’s reputation but he said Gordon spent most of the time boasting about the Clintons’ frequent appearance at the estate.”

“My access was very controlled," Kellogg said. "During the site walk, it was dictated where I could and couldn’t go. There were certain facilities I wasn’t allowed to go in, which was odd, as they were boarded up, and they looked like they could have big parties in them, but I didn’t think much of it. They wanted to put very, very limited camera coverage on the main house itself.”

The New York Times reported over the summer that Epstein allegedly wanted to turn his ranch into a place where he would impregnate vast numbers of women in what The Times described as “transhumanism,” which “critics have likened transhumanism to a modern-day version of eugenics, the discredited field of improving the human race through controlled breeding.”

Epstein, who may or may not have killed himself, was arrested by federal law enforcement officials on sex trafficking charges in early July after returning to the United States and supposedly committed suicide in a New York City prison approximately a month later.

When asked for comment by The Daily Mail, the Clintons pointed to a statement that they released over the summer which “denied he had ever visited any of Epstein’s residences, apart from once at Epstein’s home in New York City.”

That is apparently a big fat lie.

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Charlize Theron lets her 7-year-old make life decisions

Charlize Theron is an open comic book about her family life. She thinks her 7-year-old son is a girl because he thinks he's a girl in spite of the fact that his penis and chromosomes tell a different story. When he was three years old, he told his mother that he was a girl and she believes him because she evidently failed or never took biology in school.

“Yes, I thought she was a boy, too,” the 43-year-old idiot admitted to The Daily Mail. “Until she looked at me when she was three years old and said, ‘I am not a boy!'” Rather than correcting him she must have thought hey, I don't want any trouble.

“So there you go! I have two beautiful daughters who, just like any parent, I want to protect and I want to see thrive,” the woke "Atomic Blonde" actress said. “They were born who they are and exactly where in the world both of them get to find themselves as they grow up, and who they want to be, is not for me to decide.”

Theron adopted Jackson in 2012 and her second daughter, August, in 2015. She is allowing them to make all their important life decisions, being totally unaware that most kids with gender confusion at that age, eventually see themselves as their biological gender.

“My job as a parent is to celebrate them and to love them and to make sure that they have everything they need in order to be what they want to be,” she added, “and I will do everything in my power for my kids to have that right and to be protected within that.”

Her job as a parent is also to guide her child in their behavior and decisions. A three-year-old's brain is not sufficiently developed to make decisions like deciding their gender.

Transgender boy who thinks he's
a girl

She credits her mother for teaching her how to be a tolerant and accepting person. So it's clear that if her mother meant that she should be tolerant of the misconceptions of their children, she too sucked at motherhood and it shows in Charlize Theron's thinking.

What if her son thought he was a puppy?

“You know, I grew up in [South Africa] where people lived with half-truths and lies and whispers and nobody said anything outright, and I was raised very specifically not to be like that,” Theron said in a serious voice. “I was taught by my mom that you have to speak up; you have to be able to know that, when this life is over, you’ll have lived the truth you’re comfortable with, and that nothing negative can come from that.”

Theron has been an LGBTQ activist for many years. In 2009, she announced on "The View" that she wouldn't get married to her then-boyfriend Stuart Townsend until everyone in the United States had a right to marry, demonstrating just how unsure she was of Townsend.

"I have so many friends who are gays and lesbians who would so badly want to get married, that I wouldn’t be able to sleep with myself,” she said seriously once more.

How can you not sleep with yourself?

Theron is abusing the privacy of her family situation to show us all just how woke she is. Are you convinced her son is a daughter?


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