Bad Ratings

Better be careful lest he gets cancelled. Reuters (06.29.05), via Needlenose:

“President Bush’s address to the nation, urging Americans to stand firm in Iraq, drew the smallest TV audience of his tenure, Nielsen Media Research reported on Wednesday.

Bush’s speech on Tuesday night at the Ft. Bragg military base in North Carolina averaged 23 million viewers combined on the four major U.S. broadcast networks and three leading cable news channels networks that carried the speech, Nielsen said.”

Career-low TV audience for Bush’s Iraq speech

“That number was 8.6 million viewers below Bush’s previous low as president, his Aug. 9, 2001 speech on stem cell research, which was carried on six networks.”