This shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone.  The general population is fed up with the cheerleading for the current administration.  And anyone whom thought that Tuesday Night's News Conference was a success, is an idiot! 

An old man turned ninety-eight
He won the lottery and died the next day
It's a black fly in your Chardonnay
It's a death row pardon two minutes too late
And isn't it ironic... don't you think?

As Obama's popularity goes, so does their ratings.  They are irrevocably tied together unless they drastically change their ways.

"Perhaps one reason why Big 3 network coverage of the 2008 presidential election was so heavy on fawning favoritism towards Barack Obama and Joe Biden combined with all-out attacks on John McCain and Sarah Palin was that the belief that an Obama presidency might revive interest in their declining evening newscasts."

I have no doubt that the MSM's swooning for Obama had something to do with ratings.  But let's not overlook the  lefty-perspective that they shared.  Obama not only had a viable shot at becoming the First Black POTUS (and journalists love to say they covered history), but he was the most liberal Senator in the US Senate, and was bringing that political bent into office with him.

Had it been primarily about ratings, the MSM wouldn't have dumped Hillary Clinton so quickly after Iowa.  Despite her "comeback" in New Hampshire, they hopped on the Obama bandwagon.

If it were all about ratings, they would've pumped up both Obama and Clinton in the hope of getting a brokered Democratic convention, which would've driven their ratings through the roof.   Instead, they just about handed it to Obama even before he locked it up.

In the general election, they could've increased ratings after Palin was named to the GOP ticket.  Afterall, the Dems offered their first black Presidential candidate and the GOP had their first female VP candidate.  Instead, true to their ideology, they went out of their way to destroy her candidacy, and continued to do so even after her defeat.  Is there any doubt that had Palin been a Democratic candidate, they would have praised her?

Tom...this is rich...what great news to read for the day.

Of course the msm will never blame their bias/hpocrisy...just like the decline in the print...they refuse to blame themselves.

...and to top it off....people are sick and tired of seeing O everywhere all the time, with his same old whine, same old leftist blathering...simple as that.

The increased viewers right after the election would have been the voters who had 'hope' that the gamble they took with electing obama would turn out well. It hasn't. They now do not like to watch what they have done. We should round them up and force them to watch and consider their crime against the country.

But it all pales in comparison to the forward March of Socialism.

They surely feel it's worth the price.

One of the 34% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 61% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory (yep...approval for Congress now at 39%...do you believe that!?).

Jessie R. Hamby                I bet they ask for a bailout.               LET THE ONE SIDED MEDIA FAIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

When it comes to TV news, does America really need FIVE liberal partisan news outlets?  Americans don't think so which is why their ratings plummet.  The fact that Foxnews is successful should say something to the executives at liberally slanted news organizations.  The fact that they refuse to change suggests to me that these organizations are much more partisan to the left than people realize. The execs at these "news" organizations are truly ideologues, they would rather clutch their liberalism to their ratings graves before *gasp* turning to more conservative voices in America.