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Viewers doing a 180 on Anderson Cooper's '360'  Kay Jones, a
producer on CNN's Anderson Cooper's "AC360," recently blogged on
the show's website that she "deserve[s] the month of May off."
Well, she might as well take it because Cooper's fan base is
doing just that already.  Kh6mwrncCOOPER Cooper's ratings have
been in a sharp decline all year, and so far the month of May is
no exception. According to Nielsen, the audience for the 10-11
p.m. hour of his show so far this month is 933,000 viewers. This
is the first time he's fallen below the one-million mark since
the dog days of last August. Anderson is losing almost 20% of
his lead-in from Larry King and is in danger of being passed in
the ratings by MSNBC's 10 p.m. repeat of "Countdown with Keith
Olbermann." Since the start of 2009, Cooper has lost one-third
of his audience.  CNN has invested heavily into marketing Cooper
as the face of the network. The hype has never really translated
into com