Posted on 06/30/2021 5:42:59 AM PDT by george76
The second quarter of 2021 saw viewers ditch CNN and MSNBC in droves as experts wonder if the liberal networks can ever recover from a “serious credibility problem” they created by relying on former President Donald Trump for success while ignoring internal gaffes and scandals.
“CNN and MSNBC were one-trick ponies, and that trick was bashing Trump,” Cornell Law School professor and media critic William A. Jacobson told Fox News.
“Now that Trump no longer is president, they have tried to keep up the mania, but it’s hard. The audience has disappeared because it never was loyal to CNN and MSNBC hosts, it was loyal to Trump hatred,” Jacobson added. “It’s not hard to imagine executives at CNN and MSNBC saying nightly prayers that Trump runs for president in 2024.”
MSNBC averaged only 847,000 viewers during the second quarter and CNN settled for a dismal 654,000. By comparison, Fox News averaged 1.2 million during the same time period to finish No. 1 in all of basic cable. CNN failed to crack the one-million viewer threshold during the primetime hours of 8-11 p.m. ET, while MSNBC lost to CNN among the key demographic of adults age 25-54.
Fox News contributor Joe Concha thinks a significant credibility crisis at CNN and MSNBC is going to keep vanishing viewers.
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Media Research Center vice president Dan Gainor thinks the “left is embarrassed” and their safe spaces no longer include the once-cozy confines of CNN and MSNBC.
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++ zero + zero = zero
When their ratings reach zero it will be a day to celebrate.
MSNBC airs “trusted news” (and “reject rumors”) ads on iheartradio’s/clearchannel’s supposed conservative/libertarian radio stations.
They still have their base. All the TVs in the airport terminals.
See my tagline.
“Lost their credibility”
Gee, all of a sudden.
At least the Russians were able to light their stoves with Pravda. Other than placating schizophrenics, CNN and MSNBC are useless. So are ABC,CBS and NBC news.
No, not that. The Left lives by the double standard. They are incapable of shame or conscience.
Problem is from near-bankruptcy they’ll be bought by the Zuckerbergs and Bezos’s who will be happy to run massive losses in order to control the sheeple and useful idiots. We need wealth taxes.
I don't think that's possible
State media doesn’t care about ratings. The only goal left is to get rid of what little is left at Fox.
They are just doing what they are told by the powers behind the democrat party. If they need money, it will be there for them. Party loyalty above all!
Not even that anymore
I’ve been hearing about CNN’s decline for decades and yet, they’re still here.
You’re exactly correct. You did leave one major character flaw off your examples. You’d said “They are incapable of shame or conscience.” I would add truthfulness and that just about sums them up.
Rich leftists hide their money in tax free scams like the Clinton Foundation and/or off shore hidden from US laws.
They are just a part of the Global Media Monopoly.
Arthritic fat fingering this AM! You’d=you
So die already.
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