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CNN was successful until around 2001, when [[Fox News]] began beating it in the ratings. Since then it has been failing (even with a near monopoly position in airport terminal broadcasts), with June 2019 primetime ratings (the most watched period for television when stations can command premium prices for advertising) not even making the top 10, falling below not only the conservative-oriented Fox News, but ultra-left-wing [[MSNBC]], HGTV (which broadcasts reality shows pertaining to home improvement and real estate), and even [[Hallmark Channel]] which was running endless reruns of "chick flick" romance films.<ref>https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/basic-cable-ranker-week-of-june-3/405417/</ref>  In daytime it ranked #6, but again fell below Fox, MSNBC, HGTV, and even kid-oriented Nickelodeon and true-crime oriented Investigation Discovery (though it did beat out Hallmark Channel in this time slot).

CNN was successful until around 2001, when [[Fox News]] began beating it in the ratings. Since then it has been failing (even with a near monopoly position in airport terminal broadcasts), with June 2019 primetime ratings (the most watched period for television when stations can command premium prices for advertising) not even making the top 10, falling below not only the conservative-oriented Fox News, but ultra-left-wing [[MSNBC]], HGTV (which broadcasts reality shows pertaining to home improvement and real estate), and even [[Hallmark Channel]] which was running endless reruns of "chick flick" romance films.<ref>https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/basic-cable-ranker-week-of-june-3/405417/</ref>  In daytime it ranked #6, but again fell below Fox, MSNBC, HGTV, and even kid-oriented Nickelodeon and true-crime oriented Investigation Discovery (though it did beat out Hallmark Channel in this time slot).

CNN rewarded two corrupt [[Obama administration]] employees, both [[fake news]] [[leak]]ers in the [[Trump-Russia collusion hoax]], with jobs after they were driven out of government - [[James Clapper]] and [[Andrew McCabe]].<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2019/08/23/cnn-just-paid-off-another-corrupt-deep-state-leaker-tv-contract/</ref>

CNN rewarded two corrupt [[Obama administration]] employees, both [[fake news]] [[leak]]ers in the [[Trump-Russia collusion hoax]], with jobs after they were driven out of government - [[James Clapper]] and [[Andrew McCabe]].<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2019/08/23/cnn-just-paid-off-another-corrupt-deep-state-leaker-tv-contract/</ref>  In 2020 it was reported 5 former CNN reporters were now working for [[CGTN]] which is run by the [[Chinese Communist Party]] and available in almost 30 million US households.  It is the overseas arm of the state's of the party's Propaganda Department.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2eOEPPjD0A</ref>

==History==

==History==