LOL, CNN a smudge liberal..
it doesn't have the nickname COMMIE NEWS NETWORK for nothing..
I will now refer to them as the Globe magazine news network, they are now releasing records of 20 year old divorces and calling it news.
CNN got the nick name "Commie News Network" or "Clinton News Network" from Fox Fans, enough said.
Now to the OP, you know that Fox News and MSNBC are trusted by it's viewership, but those viewerships are on the decline and CNN is picking up the lost viewers.
CNN 2011: A Year of Big News Events Drives Rebound
CNN 2011: A Year of Big News Events Drives Rebound - TVNewser
Now the fact that both Fox News and MSNBC are losing viewers at this point of the news cycle as we approach the upcoming elections tell us alot. Typically biased news resources viewership increases as big elections grow nearer, but in this case Fox and MSNBC are losing viewers.
Poll after poll after poll tell us the the general public is really, really sick of the unworkable extreme partisanship in Washington. It seems the more people want bi-partisanship, the more partisan the Dems and GOP get. Talk about being really out-of-touch. And then we have two highly partisan news networks, more and more people just don't want to hear that crap.
CNN may lean slightly to the left but in comparison to Fox or MSNBC, CNN is a breath of fresh air as it is a far cry from the extreme partisanship of both Fox and MSNBC. Their right and left news analyst aren't to the extreme right or left that those on Fox and MSNBC news are, they are much more moderate in their leaning and on occasion are critical of the extreme element within their own ideology. Call them RINO or DINO, it's still good for a majority of Americans, who themselves are Independents/Moderates.
Real news and opinion is not hearing what fits your mindset, doing so eliminates the real world, which is a much broader environment than a narrow ideological viewpoint of the world.
I was brought up a Baptist and my family went to church around 3,251 times a week. I'm well aware of what "preaching to the choir" means and that is what Fox News and MSNBC are all about.