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Guess Who Still Watches CNN

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With their ratings in the tank, as Mark Levin and Rush Limbaugh, CNN seems to have a core audience that is mostly captive, i.e., in airports where they seem to have somehow snagged the monopoly concession.

I will add another place with a captive audience where I have seen it–emergency rooms. Well, it turns out they still have some viewers who watch it by choice and you can probably figure out who they are.

On the academe blog maintained by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) Martin Kich picked up his readers where they are with the lede, “CNN’s David Gelles has surveyed the number of times that President Trump has refereed to the Mueller investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election as a ‘witch hunt.'”

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Malcolm A. Kline
Malcolm A. Kline is the Executive Director of Accuracy in Academia. If you would like to comment on this article, e-mail contact@academia.org.

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