CNN’s brief ratings success with the Trump Town Hall

The television ratings are in and CNN’s live Town Hall Wednesday evening at 8 PM ET with President Trump, as expected, gave the third-place cable news channel a decisive win in the ratings – but only for the 75 minutes when Trump was on the screen and the 45 minutes of talking head analysis that followed. By 10 PM ET, FOX News had regained the lead. Following the town hall at 8 PM ET (transcript here), viewers departed CNN, dropping to 2.2 million viewers for the mostly left wing analysis...