Posted on 12/29/2021 8:26:41 AM PST by Olog-hai
The presidential election, pandemic and racial reckoning were stories that drove intense interest and engagement to news outlets in 2020. To a large degree, 2021 represented the inevitable hangover.
Various metrics illustrate the dwindling popularity of news content.
Cable news networks were the main form of evening entertainment for millions of Americans last year. In 2021, weekday prime-time viewership dropped 38% at CNN, 34% at Fox News Channel and 25% at MSNBC, according to the Nielsen company.
The decline was less steep but still significant at broadcast television evening newscasts: 12% at ABC’s “World News Tonight” and the “CBS Evening News;” 14% at NBC’s “Nightly News,” Nielsen said.
The Trump era saw explosive subscriber growth for some digital news sites like The New York Times and Washington Post. Yet readers aren’t spending as much time there; Comscore said the number of unique visitors to the Post’s site was down 44% in November compared to November 2020, and down 34% at the Times. […]
Fox News, while doubling down on conservative commentary following perceived threats from outlets like Newsmax and OANN, directed fans to its Fox Nation streaming service. Arguably Fox’s most attention-getting programming of the year was a documentary on the Jan. 6 Capitol riot by Tucker Carlson, that asserted it was an effort to silence Trump supporters. …
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We are interested in news, but they have to provide news to get people to watch.
When there are more people willing to be prostitutes than watch CNN, I’d say there is a problem.
It’s not news, it’s propaganda.
There is no news anymore, it’s ALL just opinionated HORSESH*T coming from moronic news readers. All of it.
Maybe even the most dim witted have lost their belief in the Fake News?
People are full of the crap they have been serving, time to push away from the table.
But it’s ALL propaganda. You must be able to sift through the rubble.
I love real news—I hate propaganda.
I also hate a mix of news and propaganda.
A zero propaganda zone is what we need.
Yes, they need to up their game to stay afloat. We need more threats against the planet to keep these outlets going. We need angry land sharks, killer hummingbirds poking people in the eyes, and deadly pollution from discarded plastic shopping bags killing the oceans. Everything needs to be far more urgent!
Don’t forget to put frickin’ laser beams on the land sharks . . .
See Tagline.
Without mean tweets, there is no news
Maybe they should add more lectures by people such as Al Gore and Greta Thunberg, to drive global warming more. Those people would get people to tune in......
Sarcasm.......
Every American should watch Tucker nightly. But FOX in general poisoned itself with Chris Wallace, Geraldo, Juan and the fake Arizona call for Creepy Joe.
We don’t want to watch liars on TV or read liars like the Asspress.
AP is just another one of the corrupted outlets. If queried by stockholders/bosses, the natural response to failure is to insist that everyone is failing, not just ME!
“It’s a trend!”
My question exactly. Is there a dwindling public interest in news? Or merely a dwindling public interest in leftist propaganda, which is not only consistently wrong, but wrong as wrong can be.
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that hurts their advertising but they are still collecting cable subscriber fees
cut cable tv
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