CNN dumbing down to FOX level viewers?

I'm sorry to see Aaron Brown gone from the CNN lineup. Then, again, one must ask, what lineup? The programming constantly shifts, almost whimsically, from one month to another. The winds of change have blown for over a year, but the spiraling down to mediocrity really began with the demise of Crossfire.

Dale Ernhart, Jr, idol of Southern right-wing extremists, and a real nice guy, has said publicly that he prefers CNN to FOX. Is that a signal that some NASCAR drivers are bright, and cognitive? Or that CNN has demoted itself to the basement of respectability and excellence for the numbers game called viewership?