CNN falls to fourth place, behind even its joke-of-a-sister-network Headline News. What do they conclude lies behind their lackluster performance?

The results demonstrate once more the apparent preference of viewers for opinion-oriented shows from the news networks in prime time.

CNN has steered opinion hosts like Nancy Grace to HLN, while maintaining more news-oriented shows on CNN itself. When news events are not being intensely followed, CNN executives acknowledge, viewers seem to be looking for partisan views more than objective coverage.

More cellar-dwelling for these bozos.

One of the best ways to test a premise, is to look at its extremes.

If terrorists were to blow up the White House tomorrow, you can bet your hiney that everyone in the country would be tuning into CNN and the other cable news shows, no matter what the time of day. The concept of "prime time" would be suspended. What does that tell you?

Americans will watch news, so if they aren't watching news programs its because there is no actual news being reported, and in large measure, this is the fault of the state media, whose job, as Chris Matthews tells it, is to "support" the Obama administration.

I am still a little amazed at how stories that would have been on the front page during the Bush administration, are of little or no interest today.

If your job is to suppress the news, then you can't complain when people don't watch your news show.