Jill Biden's CNN special the ratings juggernaut you'd expect

The “CNN Primetime” special, branded “Jill Biden Abroad,” featured an interview CNN White House correspondent Arlette Saenz that shed a staggering 43% of viewers of CNN’s average 2023 9 p.m. ET viewership.

“Jill Biden Abroad” averaged a dismal 368,000 total viewers compared to 2.7 million for Fox News’ “Hannity” and 2.3 million for MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show,” which both aired in the same time slot. It was CNN’s worst weekday performance at 9 p.m. since June 17, 2022, with the exception of Christmas Eve, Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

[Can’t wait for the Doug Emhoff special! Maybe the media organizations will get the message that their audiences aren’t really interested in propaganda. On the other hand, that’s all they seem to produce even with their own staff on the air. This should alert them to make it less obvious, at least. — Ed]