{"id":402089,"date":"2019-03-31T09:27:06","date_gmt":"2019-03-31T08:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-cnns-brian-stelter-claims-ratings-are-down-because-its-a-slow-news-week\/"},"modified":"2019-03-31T09:27:06","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T08:27:06","slug":"prison-planet-com-cnns-brian-stelter-claims-ratings-are-down-because-its-a-slow-news-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-cnns-brian-stelter-claims-ratings-are-down-because-its-a-slow-news-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb CNN\u2019s Brian Stelter Claims Ratings Are Down Because It\u2019s A Slow News Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2019\/03\/28\/cnn-brian-stelter-msnbc-ratings-mueller-report\/\"><strong>Daily Caller<\/strong><\/a><br \/>March 29, 2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>CNN chief media correspondent Brian Stelter had a unique explanation Wednesday night for why CNN and MSNBC\u2019s ratings are plummeting since the conclusion of the Mueller investigation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Stelter wrote in his newsletter \u201cReliable Sources\u201d Wednesday night that viewers aren\u2019t tuning in to CNN and MSNBC because \u201cthere hasn\u2019t been much news\u201d since special counsel Robert Mueller delivered his report on Russian collusion to Attorney General Bill Barr. Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2019\/03\/27\/cnn-fox-news-msnbc-mueller-conclusion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">has not been affected<\/a> by the alleged slow news week, Stelter reasoned, because Barr\u2019s letter on the Mueller findings is \u201cbeing celebrated like a sequel to election night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6595830\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Screen-Shot-2019-03-28-at-10.26.09-AM.png\" sizes=\"(max-width: 699px) 100vw, 699px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Screen-Shot-2019-03-28-at-10.26.09-AM.png 699w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Screen-Shot-2019-03-28-at-10.26.09-AM-282x107.png 282w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Screen-Shot-2019-03-28-at-10.26.09-AM-768x290.png 768w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Screen-Shot-2019-03-28-at-10.26.09-AM-620x234.png 620w\" alt=\"Brian Stelter's &quot;Reliable Sources&quot; Newsletter (Screenshot)\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6595830\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-6595830\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brian Stelter\u2019s \u201cReliable Sources\u201d Newsletter (Screenshot)<\/p>\n<p>Joe Concha, media reporter for The Hill, explained on Fox News that there have been plenty of big stories for the media to cover since Mueller finished his investigation and suggested the ratings drop is due to a lack of trust among viewers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYesterday, CNN didn\u2019t even average more than 540,000 viewers as a 40-year-old network with a big brand name and a crazy news cycle,\u201d Concha argued. \u201cYou\u2019re talking about [Jussie] Smollett getting released, [Michael] Avenatti getting arrested, the Mueller report \u2014 how anybody isn\u2019t rising in ratings in this particular week when it\u2019s just been nuts \u2026 that\u2019s almost impossible to do unless your viewers don\u2019t trust you anymore based on all the speculation you did recklessly and randomly over the past two years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>WATCH:<\/b><br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uCr5aoMCxRE?feature=oembed\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2019\/03\/28\/cnn-brian-stelter-msnbc-ratings-mueller-report\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      <!-- END CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#333; font-size:11px;\">This article was posted: Friday, March 29, 2019  at  6:35 am<\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/><!-- share and follow --><br \/>\n      <!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<div class=\"print_sub\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">&#13;<br \/>\n        \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/cnns-brian-stelter-claims-ratings-are-down-because-its-a-slow-news-week.html\/print\/\" title=\"Print\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"WP-PrintIcon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-print\/images\/printer_famfamfam.gif\" alt=\"Print\" title=\"Print\" style=\"border: 0px;\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nPrint this page.<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<p><!--\n      \n\n<div class=\"nextpage\">\n              <\/div>\n\n \n -->    <\/p>\n<p><!--\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gm2pZEeYN0E?list=UUvsye7V9psc-APX6wV1twLg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n--><\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/cnns-brian-stelter-claims-ratings-are-down-because-its-a-slow-news-week.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily CallerMarch 29, 2019 CNN chief media correspondent Brian Stelter had a unique explanation Wednesday night for why CNN and MSNBC\u2019s ratings are plummeting since the conclusion of the Mueller investigation. Stelter wrote in his newsletter \u201cReliable Sources\u201d Wednesday night that viewers aren\u2019t tuning in to CNN and MSNBC because \u201cthere hasn\u2019t been much news\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-402089","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}