Anderson Cooper

When the final Nielsen television ratings came out this week showing that CNN's Anderson Cooper edged out his Fox News competition in a key demographic in 2008, the network was quick to crow about it. On Wednesday, CNN ran full-page ads in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal touting the fact that the first hour of "Anderson Cooper 360?" won the time period among 25- to 54-year-old viewers, the age group most sought after by advertisers who buy time during news programs.