Posted on 12/29/2021 7:34:08 AM PST by Rummyfan
The Associated Press reported, "Outlets hurt by dwindling public interest in news in 2021."
Given that AP's customers are the news media which pays for AP's services, one can hardly expect objectivity when AP reports on the media. The data in this report are grim. In the last 12 months, the Washington Post's online traffic is down 44%. The New York Times is down 34%.
Prime-time viewership is down 38% at CNN, 34% at Fox, and 25% at MSNBC.
Nightly news viewership is down 14% at NBC, and down 12% at both ABC and CBS.
AP spun this as an off-year.
It began its story, "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."
The spin was both laughable and a symptom of the disease that is laying the media low.
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Right now they are spinning “Little O” as a worldwide catastrophe. They are deliberately hiding the fact that symptoms are the sniffles and sneezing.
There is great public interest in the news. But AP and the rest of the MSM have about as much interest in reporting the news as MTV has in showing music videos.
Bingo!!!
Bingo...again!!!
Sorry, these are not news outlets. More like tabloids.
“34% at Fox”
For every mention of a vaccine injury or death on Fox you have to sit through a hundred times, “I’m vaccinated. Get vaccinated.” I’ve drifted away from them. Pretty sure Tucker Carlson knows the truth about vaccine injuries and deaths but after talking about VAERS for several minutes at the beginning of a May show, not much. Guest Alex Berenson acts like he wants to spill the truth but is muzzled. As for Hannity: What’s the point if everybody knows how terrible Biden is if the much of the population ends up sick and/or unemployed?
Personally I have more interest in getting the news than ever, but what doesn’t interest me is agenda-driven hysteria and lies. However, I find myself settling for news that’s slanted in favor of my biases.
Plenty interest in news. Little interest in fake news.
I expect CNN to be the first major media outlet to go bankrupt. With the loss of revenue from many airports, the increasing number of people cutting their cable and moving to streaming services and an ever dwindling audience, their demise is a matter of time. MSNBC should be the next domino to fall.
“It is not that the public is no longer interested in the news. It is that the public no longer believes the news media is delivering the news.”
I’ll buy that but also think the public realizes that too much old news is being repeated. It’s boring. For many, Covid is boring, climate change hysteria is boring.
I prefer reading “news” rather than watching it because one can fast-forward through a document.
But no doubt a lot of the news is distorted, and a lot of news is not reported at all.
Another thing that’s easily noticed in printed news is the wasted words, like the author is showing off or is required to fill space or write something to meet regular deadlines.
Sometimes, I feel in such a minority (Thank God and JimRob for FR!). I would much rather read something than sit and listen to someone pontificate ad nauseum before getting to the point (IF they even have one...).
Thanks for showing me I'm not alone!
Yep.
First, there’s the problem of poor literacy skills. Second, there’s the problem of craving emotional involvement rather than information.
This country is in trouble.
Do advertisers get to pay less when ratings fall?
Also, Nick Sandmann was awarded a couple more settlements from the MSM liars in 2021. That’s “media pushing for its lies” - bigly.
From the "How did they pay?" desk.
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