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Clegg's election crisis CNN

The all-news channel excellence has lost nearly half its audience in a year . The space of the legendary Larry King interviews meets four to five times less viewers than its rival program on Fox News, and repeatedly lost the battle night before Rachel Maddow, host of MSNBC news channel (supposedly center-left) .

CNN refuses to ideologize their news, but the verdict of the audience is clear: win the partisanship, he loses objectivity. Media analysts have been quick to recommend programs that display the political conflict more clearly, either by resurrecting the debate Crossfire, as proposed Michael Calderone at Politico , or asking journalists to analyze left-right-now and vice versa, as suggested by NYU professor Jay Rosen , who also advocates give ground to the libertarian views with a daily program.

may be most acute observation of Michael Hirschorn for New York Magazine : the problem of CNN is your model. In a context of abundance of information, news your recipe with a little analysis has become obsolete. Pure and simple information does not matter, is redundant. In contrast, the televised radio talk does create followers, and also is much cheaper.

Something similar seems to be detected in the first months of life of DTT (digital terrestrial television) in Spain. The political debate program Cat water (Intereconomía TV), arguably the English equivalent to when Bill O'Reilly on Fox News , harvesting more viewers than all its rivals combined, according data cited by the blog 'watching TV' .

In the throes of the Cold War, and during the 90's, scholars came to coin the term ' CNN effect' to refer to the curious symbiosis between the intensive coverage of international crises and foreign policy of the United States. Now the loss of audience from CNN over its ideological rivals once again put into sharp focus the discussion on the consequences of the polarization of the audience for democracy and conventional journalism.

To study these issues further, we recommend the master thesis of Talia Stroud, Selective Exposure to partisan information (University of Pennsylvania, 2006) as well as his 2007 article " Media Effects, Selective Exposure, and Fahrenheit 9 / 11 ( Political Communication 24 (4): 415-432).

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