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Glenn Beck A Failure For Headline News

My Two Sense, Wednesday, May 9, 2007 11 AM

The Glenn Beck show on Headline News is routinely among the lowest-rated programs in prime-time cable news, pulling in fewer than 100,000 viewers in the 25-54 demo. One recent special -- "Exposed: The Climate of Fear" -- came in below that number despite a month of preparation, appearances on CNN by Beck and paid advertising on large Internet sites.

Meanwhile, competitors including "The Fox Report," "The Situation Room," and "Hardball With Chris Matthews" garner much higher ratings than he does, with the first typically getting 4 or 5 times the viewership. The Glenn Beck experiment seems to have failed. These ratings show that the right-wing commentary is not clicking with viewers.

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