Mediaweek reports that Anderson Cooper’s ratings are down 19% from Aaron Brown’s last week on-air.

What I find truly remarkable is that the show’s only averaging about 568,000 viewers. By TV standards, you can’t get much smaller. I’ll bet the Robyn Bird Show doesn’t do much worse (and I don’t even know what channel it’s on any more).

I understand that in promoting Cooper ad nauseum, CNN is just trying to figure out how to stop the bleeding. I’ve got an idea. Journalism? I’d like to see CNN focus more on the news and stories it’s reporting, rather than the people who are doing the reporting….