If you examine cable news viewership trends closely enough, you will find reasons for both satisfaction and discouragement.
Nonetheless, satisfaction prevails when one contemplates the totality of President-elect Donald Trump’s victory over his establishment antagonists at CNN.
To quantify that victory, consider that since the network began its ill-fated crusade against Trump in 2016, the former kings and queens of prime-time cable news at CNN have hemorrhaged 94 percent of their viewing audience, per the U.K.’s Daily Mail.
In 2016, CNN ranked as the most-watched cable news network, with an average of 13.3 million prime-time viewers.
Remarkably, that number now stands at only around 800,000 — a decline of 93.99 percent.