It’s official: Campbell Brown is done at CNN.
The reporter is giving up her post at the network — and not because she simply wants to spend more time with her family.
The “No Bias, No Bull” anchorwoman announced Tuesday that weak ratings have fueled her decision to step down as primetime host at the struggling network. Brown said she could say she was leaving to spend more time with her two young children or pursue new opportunities, and both would be partly true.
“But I have never had much tolerance for others’ spin, so I can’t imagine trying to stomach my own,” she said. “The simple fact is that not enough people want to watch my program, and I owe it to myself and to CNN to get out of the way so that CNN can try something else.”
Campbell was regularly bulldozed in the ratings. Brown’s time slot is dominated by Fox News Channel’s Bill O’Reilly, who is averaging 3.3 million viewers this year, and MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann, who has about 1 million viewers.
The 41-year-old mother of two is married to former foreign policy advisor Dan Senor. She spent 11 years at NBC News before joining CNN.