unexpected plug<\/a> hours before its debut September 1 when he tweeted to his 86 million followers: \u201cGood luck to Sean Compton, a winner at everything he does!\u201d It appeared over a link to a Los Angeles Times curtain raiser on \u201cNews Nation.\u201d<\/p>\nConsidering that \u201cNews Nation\u201d purports to be free of political bias, there\u2019s a lot riding on how Donlon\u2019s interview is perceived by viewers. He'll be accompanied by a rhetorician to monitor the interview for fairness, sources said.<\/p>\n
Since its launch at the start of the month, \u201cNews Nation\u201d has averaged 124,000 viewers a night, according to Nielsen figures. That\u2019s far from the 75 million U.S. TV households WGN America claims to reach. It\u2019s also minuscule compared with the primetime viewership of Fox News (3.637 million ), MSNBC (2.194 million), and CNN (1.685 million).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Will an exclusive White House interview with President Donald Trump help jump-start the ratings for \u201cNews Nation\u201d? Trump has agreed to tape a one-on-one interview Tuesday morning with Joe Donlon, news anchor for the national cable news startup on Chicago-based WGN America. It will be seen on Tuesday night\u2019s \u201cNews Nation,\u201d which airs here from... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27001"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27001"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27012,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27001\/revisions\/27012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}