Here's the real reason: http://www.businessinsider.com/anderson-cooper-rat ings-2009-12 CNN is posturing as passive "centrists" to compete with
CNBC's "loopy whacked out left wing nutso ranting loons". Look at the numbers. NO ONE is buying ANY of the propaganda from the left... whether in print or other "traditional" media... So, if you won't buy it, well, then the government will have to buy it ...