Pathetic: Piers Morgan Brags About Being #1... at CNN

So I was checking what was going on in Gun Control Country and I saw this tweet by Piers Morgan:

No1 issue, No1 ratings: bit.ly/ZIN0Rd #GunControlNow #CNN
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) January 10, 2013

So I said to myself, “that can’t be right.  He’s beating Fox?”

Well, no, he is excited about this story over at Mediaite:

Tuesday Ratings: Piers Morgan Beats All Of CNN In Total Viewers And Demo

On Tuesday night, Piers Morgan beat the rest of his CNN colleagues in both total viewership and the key 25-54 demo.

Racking up 225k demo viewers, Morgan beat out his next-highest-rated colleague in Anderson Cooper, who scored 209k demo viewers.

And in total viewership, Morgan garnered 797k viewers, beating out Cooper, who had 659k total.

And that is all nice and good, and I am sure he will appreciate the relative job security.  I have often joked that in a workplace the law of the jungle applies: you don’t have to be faster than the lion, just faster than the guy next to you.  So he is faster than all the other guys next to him, so CNN is not likely to fire this “winner” any time soon.

But at the same time, this isn’t really much of winning.

For instance, in the 25-54 demographic, he is still being beaten by Hannity (342k).  Indeed his 225k was less even than Rachel Maddow’s 304k.  In fact every single Fox News Show scored higher than his, including The5 (a.k.a. “Red Eye for Non-Insomniacs”) with 261k.  This is at 5 p.m., by the way, when most people are still at work.  It gets worse ratings than Baier (312k), Shep (348k), O'Reilly’s 8 pm and 11 pm slots (393k and 245k, respectively).  The only one he comes close to is Greta at 245k.  And for that matter, he is also beaten by Chris Matthews in his 5pm slot (247k).  Which suggests that his job is only secure as long as Brett Baier, Sheppard Smith, Bill O’Reilly (twice), Sean Hannity, Greta Van Susteren, Chris Matthews and Rachel Maddow doesn’t want it.

Meanwhile it gets uglier with total viewers.  Of course he continues to be trounced by all of Fox.  But now he is being trounced by almost all of MSNBC, too.  His 797k total viewers, is beaten by Matthews at 5 and 7 pm (942k and 815k respectively), “Fast Eddie” Schultz at 8pm (854k), Maddow (983k) and O’Donnell (866k).  The only people he beats over there is Sharpton (703k) and Schultz’s 11 pm rerun (462k).  So basically if his employers don’t worry so much about that key demographic (fat chance), Fast Eddie could take his job, too.

And overall, Fox is still the number one network, MSNBC is number two (at least that night) and CNN is number three.  It is only beating Headline News, and really given what HN has to work with, they are actually doing pretty good.  So congratulations, Morgan on your job security and being number one, on a number three network!  Which led me to this sarcastic modified tweet (MT):

That'd be #1 in the sense that u're still trailing Hannity MT @piersmorgan: No1 issue, No1 ratings: bit.ly/ZIN0Rd #GunControlNow
— Aaron Worthing (@AaronWorthing) January 10, 2013

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