Statistic of the Day

Bush gave a twenty minute speech that was watched by 37 million television viewers in the States last Sunday. The Neilsen figures are in. CBS did rather well:

"CBS had reason to take comfort in the ratings. The broadcast is up 10 of 13 weeks, with this week coming in more than 610,000 viewers ahead of where it was during the same week last year with Dan Rather."

But this time last year Dan's credibility had taken quite a knock from the blogosphere.

Read the whole Reuters/Hollywood Reporter/YahooNews article here.