CNN's 'Anderlina' Stunt Doubles Ratings For Cooper

CNN’s 2-hour informercial worked, apparently.

AP via USA Today:

CNN attracted 1.33 million viewers for Anderson Cooper‘s interview last week with the U.N. goodwill ambassador and new mother of Brad Pitt‘s baby, more than doubling the audience Cooper typically gets for his nightly newscast.

Yet, as the Observer‘s Rebecca Dana notes, the undoubled number is kinda puny, Anderson:

By most standards, Anderson Cooper looks like a winner. The CNN anchor, Yale graduate, Vanderbilt heir and brand-new 60 Minutes correspondent hosts two hours of live television a night.

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