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The New York Times > Arts > Television > Reporting Live From Hell: TV Scrambles for Glory

I just reread the salon article which I had blogged. It is accurate, but it leaves out the fact that Fox still drew more overall viewers than CNN, despite the fact that "according to Nielsen Media Research, CNN was up 75 percent overall with an 81 percent peak during prime time. Fox News, though, saw just an 18 percent increase in overall viewers and fell 6 percent during prime time." Here's the link for the Salon article again if you want it.

The NYTimes articles points out though that in total viewers (as opposed to increases over usual vierwership), CNN remains "a distant second to Fox." I don't think that the gap is so much that "distant" is fair (MSNBC is distant), but CNN does still remain behind. If you get the print version, there's also a graph that is on E1 that shows this information that for whatever reason doesn't seem to be online.