Megyn Kelly Slams ‘Trump Hater’ CNN Anchors as Ratings Crater, Offers Jake Tapper Grace: ‘At Least Tries to Be Fair’ (Video)

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the report continued. “MSNBC more than doubled CNN’s daily audience, drawing 976,000 total viewers, while Fox News averaged 1.4 million.” (Fox News, meanwhile, was down 24% in total viewers year to year, a ratings plummet itself credited to the unceremonious ouster of Tucker Carlson.)“It’s a true existential crisis,” Kelly said of CNN’s cratering ratings. “This is why Jeff Zucker was the grim reaper of CNN.

He killed it. He killed it.” As Kelly sees it, Zucker’s leadership rid the network of its more moderate viewership and “drove every right-of-center viewer away entirely.” “There’s not one still watching that channel,” she said. “And now Chris Licht comes in to try to win them back over, does something like hosting the leading presidential candidate on the GOP side for a town hall where we might explore his views, and the audience is so angry that what little they had left has totally abandoned them.

They’re like, ‘No.’ So how do you build a media business based on that?”Johnson suggested that, like we saw with “CNN This Morning” co-host Don Lemon, it might be time for Licht and CNN to clean shop. “We remember what they were saying four years ago,” Johnson said of CNN’s leading anchors. “And for all the Republicans who were treated like crap and stopped going on the network, you need new people.

To me, that’s where Licht’s struggle has been the greatest.”To emphasize Johnson’s point, Kelly then listed off some of the network’s anchors that are currently sticking points — but surprisingly saved some grace for “The Lead” and “State of the Union” host Jake Tapper. “I mean, Wolf Blitzer, Anderson Cooper, Briana Keilar — my god, she was the biggest hater of all.