Categorically incorrect. NBC's today is perennially the highest rated morning show. People do watch and those people also vote.
The "Mainstream Media Deathwatch" that is chanted so often and with such passion here is powerfully premature. Republicans and conservatives that think that the MSM doesn't have incredible power (more power than at any other time in the history of electronic media)do so at their own peril.
The MSM selected, promoted and carried Barack Obama across the finish line. Without them, he wouldn't have been elected (even with an $800 million war chest). The fact that Ann Coulter is banned is a bad, bad event. Who's next? Soon, only conservatives that liberals approve of will have a voice on broadcast television.
This is a horrible sign for the continuation of the republic.
Quite the opposite.
This is just one of the death throes we are going to see in the coming years as the Drive By Media dies and is replaced by something better.
And the MSM selected the Republican "front-runners" at a time which would guarantee the depletion of war chests and fomented as much animosity among the right as they could with a selection of lukewarm candidates which would not appeal to the Conservative Base of the Party.
I would not beat the drum of their demise just yet, either.
The power they exert among the lazy and ill-informed is tremendous.
Never, never underestimate the power of (and danger inherent in) large groups of stupid people--and the MSM is molding their worldview with every carefully selected camera angle and word.
Yes, but with steadily decreasing numbers.
I think that was supposed to be "Nobodys watch NBC."
No, not really. This is great!:
"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism"
The media is a defacto part of the government now. After they "carried Barack Obama across the finish line" as you said, they can deny it all they want to, but half the country knows it.
Start making a list of the provocations. :-)