Partisan News Trumps Pretty Graphics?

Bad news for CNN:

CNN continued what has become a precipitous decline in ratings for its prime-time programs in the first quarter of 2010, with its main hosts losing almost half their viewers in a year.
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At the same time, Fox News, which had its biggest year in 2009, continues to add viewers. Greta Van Susteren’s show was up 25 percent from a year earlier. Bill O’Reilly, whose show commands the biggest audience in prime time with 3.65 million viewers, was up 28 percent, and Glenn Beck was up 50 percent from a year earlier.

I've actually often wondered whether the partisan news model or the "ooh shiny..." news model was worse at getting the information out - off-handedly, I'd guess the latter. I guess it's becoming clear which is worse as a business model, at least. I guess if you're not gonna get useful news either way, crazy wingnuts are more entertaining than pretty graphics. So yeah, CNN sucks.