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| Spicer's briefings on cable now beat ratings for ABC, CBS soaps |
| 2017-02-11 |
| [The Hill] White House press secretary Sean Spicer's briefings have proved to be ratings gold for the cable news networks, even beating soap operas like "The Bold and the Beautiful" and "General Hospital" on broadcast networks CBS and ABC. Spicer’s briefings, carried live by Fox News, CNN and MSNBC, are delivering an average of 4.3 million viewers, according to Nielsen data. Statistics show that across Fox, CNN and MSNBC, audiences jump by an average of 10 percentage points when Spicer appears on screen for the briefings. What some outlets like The New York Times have called "the soap opera at the White House" is actually beating the fictional long-running soaps, which usually air in the same hour of the early afternoon. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #4 More the case to make people notice that the MSM is filled with idiots and propagandists. When no one watched, their ability to hide who they really were was rather easy. Turn the light on, watch cockroaches run. Except these ones have been bred by their environment for so long, they're slow. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-02-11 10:31 |
| #3 This will end once the bloom is off the rose.People are looking to see just what the Don is all about. Seems he's started pretty well with a few wobbles so there's no pattern yet. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2017-02-11 09:17 |
| #2 He's a bit unlike the long list of previous squatting, metro-sexual briefers. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-02-11 03:43 |
| #1 I actually haven't heard the guy. I get told what I'm supposed to know by the talking heads. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-02-11 03:39 |