DECLINE OF CNN... OVERALL DECLINE OF CABLE TV
Weakening of Liberal Media... Fox News Channel's Rise to Power

Informative article in The American Thinker:

CNN Loses Half its Viewership
March 31st, 2004

Information is a powerful solvent. It can melt away the illusions created by propagandists. The truth is addictive. People with a hunger for news generally crave the rush they get from learning the "rest of the story" the way a jittery junkie craves a hit of heroin.

This preference for the whole story is the reason why Fox News Channel continues its pattern of winning over viewers at the expense of its left-leaning rival CNN. Newly-reported rating figures confirm that in both times of expanding cable news viewership (driven by war) and times of contracting news viewership (due to the outbreak of less-dramatic peace), FNC is widening its lead. Fox now pulls very close to twice the viewers of CNN. Which clearly makes Fox "dominant" in its chosen field. (full article)