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Welcome to this week's edition of the wacky world of ratings. Tuesday night's coverage following Michael Jackson's memorial service had a major impact on the averages for the week. Let's start with the 8PM time slot. On the surface the average adults 25 - 54 demographic ratings put FOX at number 1, CNN at number 2 (yes, that is CNN), MSNBC in third place and HLN trailing behind in fourth. If you look at the night to night rankings, FOX took first place four nights out of five. CNN came in first place on Tuesday night and had two third place finishes and two fourth place finishes. MSNBC took second place twice, third place once and fourth place twice. HLN took second place twice, third place twice, and fourth place once.
The averages are a bit more clear cut at 9PM. FOX came in first place for the week after taking the top spot four nights out five. CNN came in second place after coming in first place one night (Tuesday) and second place the other four nights. MSNBC was a consistent third place and HLN was a consistent fourth place.
The 10PM hour defies all logic when you look at the individual nights (but the math works in CNN's favor.) CNN takes the top spot when comparing the averages after having the highest demographic rating on Tuesday night and coming in second the other four nights. FOX comes in second for the week after coming in first four nights out of five and second one night. HLN comes in third place after coming in third three nights out of five. MSNBC comes in fourth place after coming in fourth three nights out of five.
The ratings over the past two weeks have left lots of room for the networks to spin the results in their own favor. The Wrap recently posted an article titled Fox News Keeps Fending Off Rivals and they spoke with Miles O'Brien for his take on his former employer's ratings wins and woes. (Thanks to Julie for finding this for us.)
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John King was off this morning and who better to fill in for him on State of the Union than Wolf Blitzer?
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius was in the DC studio this morning to discuss health care reform. There are many suggestions on how to pay for this reform for instance: taxing health care benefits and additional taxes for those who are the wealthiest. Blitzer also asked her about whether the latest swine flu vaccination would be ready by flu season. According to the Secretary, there are about 1 million cases of swine flu right now in the US. (Why was this number a shock? You would think when the number of cases got this high the media would have been reporting on it.)
Senators Judd Gregg (R), Debbie Stabenow (D), Lamar Alexander (R), and Kent Conrad (D) talked to Blitzer about health care reform legislation. No consensus among the group on whether employer health insurance should be taxed or if there should or shouldn't be a public option.
The Senators also discussed the information the CIA withheld from Congress on VP Cheney's order. Isn't it interesting that all of a sudden when CNN tries to get a comment regarding this that the former VP is not available for comment.
Next on State of the Union were some highlights from Anderson Cooper's interview with the President while in Ghana.
More of the interview can be seen at 10PM Monday during AC360.
John King may not have been in the studio this morning, but his report on rural health care aired. He spoke with a health care provider and a couple, who do not have health insurance and do not seek medical treatment because they can't afford it, in coal country, Clay, West Virigina. This was one of two reports on this topic that aired during the program.
Howard Kurtz was back from vacation with a full hour of Reliable Sources. Kurtz missed the Palin resignation story last Sunday, but made up for it this morning. Kurtz spoke with Keli Goff, Matt Frei, and Michael Medved. They also talked about scandal fatigue: Ensign, Sandord, Burris...
The next topic for the panel was the coverage of the Michael Jackson memorial service.
Kurtz then focused on the Washington Post scandal concerning Katharine Weymouth and corporate sponsored dinners. It turns out that other news organizations already do this. Steve Roberts and Kara Swisher discussed the controversy.
Kurtz interviewed Sir David Frost earlier this week. What is Frost doing these days? Working for Al-Jazeera English. His program is called Frost Over the World. Kurtz also asked him about the Frost/ Nixon movie and his interview with President Nixon. They also briefly touched on the debate over whether or not news organizations paying for interviews and whether or not the practice is ethical. Frost had an interesting point that although some networks refuse to pay for interviews for ethical reason those same networks will "triple" advertising rates when the interview is aired.
At the end of the hour, it was back to Wolf Blitzer. Blitzer spoke with Mary Matalin and James Carville about the CIA withholding information from the Congress.
The next topic for the two strategists was health care reform. And then they discussed Gov. Palin's decision to resign.
John King was in San Francisco earlier this week and taped the CNN Diner segment at Howard's Diner. He spoke with three people who do not have full health insurance coverage about health care reform.
The next panel included Ed Henry, Jeffrey Toobin, and Candy Crowley. They discussed the confirmation hearings of Judge Sotomayor which start in the Senate on Monday morning. The panel also discussed whether the Justice department will prosecute officials involved in harsh interrogation (torture?) techniques.
As typical, the top of the last hour of the program brought us a repeat from the 9AM hour. 44 minutes later live programming resumed. The Last Word went to Representative Patrick Murphy (D) from Pennsylvania. Blitzer talked to the Congressman about the "don't ask/ don't tell" policy. 13,000 service members have been forced out of the military under this policy. The Congressman pointed out that this is the size of three brigades.
In case you missed the program this morning, you can always catch up with the podcast:

And this week, Tom Foreman had another article in the Metro: Obama-Palin in 2012?.
When Sarah Palin took her unexpected swan dive into Lake Nevermore by announcing she was quitting as governor of Alaska, I was suitably puzzled. I assumed she must have been conked in the head by a rogue moose, or stumbled into a patch of unripe salmonberries, or she had some secret hidden on the Appalachian Trail, if you know what I mean.
The full article can be found on the Metro's website.
A reminder that CNN's coverage of the Sotomayor confirmation hearings start at 10AM on Monday morning with Wolf Blitzer anchoring the coverage along with the "Best Political Team in Television" (of course).
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Men's Journal has a quick mention of John King in their article on how to overcome jet lag. His suggestion: power naps. They also provided the picture below. Click here for the full article.




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