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How can CNN be on track for record profits this year if it’s stuck in third place with an ever-smaller share of the ad revenue pie? Here’s a clue: The “Worldwide” in “CNN Worldwide”. As anyone who’s ever seen it knows, CNN International — which is the version of CNN that people outside the US get to see — is much, much better than domestic CNN .. Then again, it has to be — it’s competing for eyeballs in a worldwide audience that has long been accustomed to quality reporting from the BBC World Service and other top-flight, long-established news programs. The people in that audience won’t tolerate the mind-numbing swill that the Big Three Broadcast and Big Three Cable networks feed their US audiences. And, as CNN has now found, fewer Americans will put up with it

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