Thu Jan 13, 2022 – 3:44 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) — Left-wing cable news outlet CNN saw its viewership for the week of the anniversary of the January 6, 2021, Capitol riots fall a massive 80% compared to last year, while more than two and a half times as many viewers opted to watch right-leaning Fox News during the same week.
According to Nielsen ratings, CNN brought in an average of just 548,000 daily viewers for the week of January 3, during which it covered the 1-year anniversary of the January 6 riot at the U.S. capitol in 2021, a major left-wing talking-point.
The viewership averages for CNN are strikingly low when compared to the soaring 2.7 million average daily viewers the network raked in for the same week last year, when it briefly became the most-watched cable news network in the nation for its coverage of the Capitol disturbance.
Most strikingly, CNN’s numbers for the week in the year-over-year comparison paled in comparison with rival Fox News, which topped national ratings by averaging 1.41 million total daily viewers for the week and 2.3 million primetime viewers, making it “the most-watched network on basic cable in the Monday-Sunday 6 a.m.-6 a.m.
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