US EditionCNN Ratings Show Big Change Since Jake Tapper’s Explosive Biden Book
- CNN experienced a significant ratings decline in May 2025, with primetime viewership dropping 18 percent and Jake Tapper's show losing a quarter of its audience.
- This decline follows the release of Jake Tapper's book "Original Sin," which alleges a cover-up of President Biden's mental and physical decline by his administration.
- The book, co-written with Axios' Alex Thompson, has drawn criticism from both the left and right, with accusations that Tapper delayed addressing Biden's health concerns while working at CNN.
- Tapper's show averaged 525,000 total viewers in May 2025, down 25 percent from the previous year and marking its lowest monthly audience since April 2015.
- The ratings drop and controversy around Tapper's book suggest continued challenges for CNN's programming and public perception amid political scrutiny and internal media debates.
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BOOK BUST: Jake Tapper Biden Bash Drops 67% in Second Week as Viewers Reject - Showbiz411
No one wants Jake Tapper’s Biden bashing book. Original Sin dropped 67% in sales for its second week. Sales were just 17k, down from 53,000. This is despite non stop shilling on CNN by Tapper and associates. It didn’t work. CNN viewers just didnt care or believe the skewed reporting in the book. The post BOOK BUST: Jake Tapper Biden Bash Drops 67% in Second Week as Viewers Reject appeared first on Showbiz411.
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CNN Ratings Show Big Change Since Jake Tapper’s Explosive Biden Book
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CNN’s Jake Tapper does fake mea culpa - The Port St. Joe Star
“Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!” – Leonardo da Vinci CNN and the legacy leftist media’s theme is to repeat a lie or half-truth over and over, channel by channel, until it becomes “the narrative,” and reality be damned! That game is over. The divorce between the legacy media and the people is ongoing. And in this case, the media have been so abusive that in a marriage the media would have been the husband…
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