It is the best topic besides corrupt politics in DC, but goes hand in hand with it. The media and their “news” coverage these days deserves all the ridicule it gets.
Pew: MSNBC Loses Quarter of Primetime Audience
by John Nolte 26 Mar 2014 | Brietbart
According to Pew, year-over-year numbers show that the business of left-wing cable news is in trouble. The cable news viewing audience overall declined for everyone, but MSNBC lost 24% of its primetime audience. CNN dropped 13%. Fox only lost 6%.
Those percentages are even more graphic when you consider how few viewers CNN and MSNBC have to begin with, especially when compared to Fox News. Fox beats both of its left-wing competitors combined with 1.75 million viewers. Only 619k tune into MSNBC, while CNN comes in third (for the fourth year) with 543k viewers.
Daytime viewership was especially bad for MSNBC. Both CNN and Fox News increased viewers over last year: 12% and 2%, respectively. MSNBC lost a whopping 15.5% of its daytime audience.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2014/03/26/pew-msnbc-loses-quarter-primetime-audience
They are all losing, including Fox. The only explanation I can think of is less people are watching and/or more people are unplugging from cable. The shocker is that MSNBC could beat CNN in anything. But it demonstrates no matter what, there are some dumb people out there and that sensational attacks work — even if anchors get canned for saying the raunchiest things they can think up.
Other meaningless commentary: another symptom of the sick media is the cable news war. MSNBC is forever attacking Fox. Fox responds attacking MSNBC’s and NBC’s sycophant coverage. The White House defense team spends the balance of their time attacking Democrats’ number one enemy — besides the Koch brothers — Fox news. And Fox covers the Left’s media antics.
It’s sort of a self-serving war. they all complain about each other and CNN just jumps on anything that looks like a story it can use. (I’d love to attend one of their meetings) So their critiques become the theme. It’s reality news.
Are people keeping score though? If the Nixon era was the low point of politics, then this one is determined to set a bigger low in media coverage, even if its about… themselves.
On the positive side, no one wants to miss a train wreck.
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MSNBC: ….R.I.P.
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🙂 Amen (hard to see it doing anything in peace)
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My guess would be the only thing keeping MSNBC afloat at all is a viewing audience left of mainly blacks and hispantics. When you have a show featuring the great, race “bait-or” Chief Al Lying Sharptongue (as does MSNBC); I believe that speaks volumes about the viewing audience being attracted. As far as hispantics; MSNBC probably displays daily maps showing the easiest routes to enter our country illegally.
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Love that name, he sure earned it. Well, it says something about that segment of society…..and they call us knuckle-draggers.
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I read this report yesterday on PEW and some other site. Can’t find it now, but it said that FOX viewers were older Americans and gradually slipping away.
Sound probably but I wonder if that is really the cause for FOX’s superior viewship.
(NIce to see MSNBC shrinking.)
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