CNN pivoted from missing planes to an over the hill pole dancer.
Via The Hill:
CNN got a rare prime-time ratings win recently in the coveted 25- to 54-year-old demographic. Of course, CNN anchor Anderson Cooper had to interview Playboy playmate Karen McDougal for an hour to get the ratings boost, but a win is a win. Cooper’s intense questioning detailed the playmate’s alleged affair with Donald Trump from multiple angles. CNN hyped the model’s “first time on TV” interview, pointing out the “bombshell allegations.”
CNN has continued the coverage of Trump’s alleged escapades with saturation coverage of porn actress Stormy Daniels’s weekend interview on CBS. Cooper did that interview, too, as he seeks to corner the market on interviewing shapely women who have been friendly with Trump. Cooper appears to know well how to ask tough questions about sexual affairs. Nobody will ever rate these interviews, however, in the same category as CBS reporter Daniel Schorr’s cold war interview with Soviet strongman, Nikita Khrushchev.
Daniels’s attorney, Michael Avenatti, gets more face time on CNN than some of the channel’s anchors, as CNN doubles down on covering sexual escapades. It has apparently not occurred to the CNN producers that Avenatti is playing them for all the publicity he can get.[…]
CNN’s new strategy to boost its lagging prime time is to slot ratings-challenged morning show host Chris Cuomo to take over the 9 p.m. hour of Cooper’s current two-hour show. Once that switch is made, CNN will have back-to-back evening anchors representing elite, east coast, powerful families. Yet, CNN will still wonder why working class viewers and people in the heartland can’t relate to its on-air talent.