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2013-11-28 Home Front: Culture Wars
CNN and MSNBC Lose Almost Half Their Viewers in One Year
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Posted by Fred 2013-11-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ]  Top

#1 No doubt they'll decide that they need to pivot more to the left...
Posted by PBMcL 2013-11-28 00:13||   2013-11-28 00:13|| Front Page Top

#2 The numbers were even worse in the all important demographic of people aged 25 to 54 as CNN's ratings dropped 59 percent and MSNBC's 52 percent.

Indeed worrisome (in my best Steven Hawking mind-voice), the 25-54 group represent the non-basement dwellers, the earners. Numbers matter.
Posted by Besoeker 2013-11-28 06:39||   2013-11-28 06:39|| Front Page Top

#3 One niggling concern is that the huge drop over all of the demo is that it means that the demo is not watching TV at all.

Where are they getting their info? I fear that they're becoming even lower information which is not a good thing.
Posted by AlanC 2013-11-28 07:38||   2013-11-28 07:38|| Front Page Top

#4 Breaking up the arrangement of cable and satellite providers to bundle programming, and thus force these venues into an open market, will kill them.
Posted by Procopius2k 2013-11-28 08:47||   2013-11-28 08:47|| Front Page Top

#5 Even unintelligent people do not like being lied to. Eventually viewers catch on to the antics.

Unfortunately a lot of young people think John Stewart is the news.
Posted by Airandee 2013-11-28 08:55||   2013-11-28 08:55|| Front Page Top

#6 The time has come. NSA Government cable and satellite provider exchanges, a kool website, subsidies. If you like your dish, cable, and kliker, you can keep them.
Posted by Besoeker 2013-11-28 08:56||   2013-11-28 08:56|| Front Page Top

#7 Minor concern AlanC, minor concern. Take heed, MODS monitor this stuff.
Posted by Shipman 2013-11-28 09:00||   2013-11-28 09:00|| Front Page Top

#8 I'm feeling little to no sympathy for the water bearers for Champ (a total incompetent) who they helped elect and are were keeping in power.
Posted by JohnQC 2013-11-28 09:50||   2013-11-28 09:50|| Front Page Top

#9 CNN shedding 48 percent of total viewers since last November and MSNBC dropping 45 percent.

People are waking up - A New Dawn in America ?

Posted by Black Charlie the Infinitesmal 2013-11-28 10:18||   2013-11-28 10:18|| Front Page Top

#10 niggling - Petty, especially in a nagging or annoying way; trifling

See Ship, I'm right there with you so let us not niggle over the verbiage. ;^)
Posted by AlanC 2013-11-28 10:22||   2013-11-28 10:22|| Front Page Top

#11 Where are they getting their info?

Intertubes?

And it indeed is "info" and not "news." Then again, the media hasn't really reported news in a very long time.
Posted by Pappy 2013-11-28 10:44||   2013-11-28 10:44|| Front Page Top

#12 It’s not just a narrow political viewpoint that’s at play. It’s simply a bad product. After a certain level of exposure even the gullible tire of “Don’t listen to those people…they’re all selfish and irrational”.
Posted by DepotGuy 2013-11-28 10:54||   2013-11-28 10:54|| Front Page Top

#13 I'd suspect the numbers are actually worse. If asked if I had watched 3letter for news this weeks I would have to say yes. If asked why, I would have to respond that if my visit was 30 minutes later than my appointment it would never have happened.

Something the administration policy scouts like and the democrat I Ching throwers don't, is people do not like listening to bad news.
Posted by swksvolFF 2013-11-28 11:53||   2013-11-28 11:53|| Front Page Top

#14 the daily show w jon steward has been averaging about 2M viewers the past few years

over half the viewers are 18-49
Posted by lord garth 2013-11-28 12:05||   2013-11-28 12:05|| Front Page Top

#15 Our universities have been preaching the extreme left ideal and no morals in journalism for years. These students that believe its ok to slant news and spin it to their ideological leaning are now leading the newscasts. Once integrity is lost in real news stations people look elsewhere. Sadly the most honest news on TV is the satirists.
Posted by 49 Pan 2013-11-28 12:43||   2013-11-28 12:43|| Front Page Top

#16 CNN and MSNBC down? Another reason to be thankful!
Posted by Bobby 2013-11-28 15:55||   2013-11-28 15:55|| Front Page Top

#17 Actually, I get most of my news from Rantburg. I believe I am better informed than the average TV news watcher. Bet they don't know anything about the nuggets from the Urdu press, for example. On the other hand, I may miss stories about things like the latest health scare. (Killer Bacteria in your Kitchen Sponge!!!)

Plus I get the collected wisdom of the commenters here. And an occasional troll to bat around.
Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2013-11-28 16:52||   2013-11-28 16:52|| Front Page Top

#18  niggling - Petty, especially in a nagging or annoying way; trifling

See Ship, I'm right there with you so let us not niggle over the verbiage. ;

AlanC with all due respect, it is very likely you are using a dictionary compiled by the establishment for the establishment, just a friendly warning.

/A reverend down yo strt.
Posted by Shipman 2013-11-28 19:06||   2013-11-28 19:06|| Front Page Top

#19 There is more real news on CCTV-9 (ChiCom) and on RU and AlJiz than on any of the US channels that just have idiots jabbering about Washington idiots/crooks/morons.

Posted by 3dc 2013-11-28 21:16||   2013-11-28 21:16|| Front Page Top

#20 #18 /A reverend down yo strt.

Someone say reverend? [opens editor, flips back a few weeks]

Hey Muse, has Reverend Al forsaken
Reverend ham and reverend bacon?
His uninvited midnight snack,
A scrawny, mouthy bird of black,
Can never sate the appetite
That used to gorge on chicken, white
And dark, and fries, and all the sides
Black Jesus for his pals provides.
What self-respecting storefront preacher
Would dine on such a wretched creature?
If Al had stuck to fatter fowls
He might be sporting sleeker jowls.

I think his self-esteem has shrunk
From all the years of brawl and bunk:
The race's Falstaff, Santa Clause
And Robin Hood has finally paused
To ponder all the stuff he's done
Invoking heaven's murdered son.
In public, he's still brash and glib
But not so much, back at his crib.

Tawana's unlaid ghost now stalks
Up to his bedroom door, and knocks
And hollers "Damn, I shoulda knew!
The one who kidnapped me was you!
You said that I'd be getting paid...
When this shit's done I'll be a maid,
And if I can't work as a nurse,
I'll whip you with this empty purse!"

blah blah blah blah

blah blah blah blah blah chamber door,
As circling crows caw, "Revermore!"
Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2013-11-28 21:39||   2013-11-28 21:39|| Front Page Top

#21 Lots of good stuff, this one is Gold.
Posted by swksvolFF 2013-11-28 21:41||   2013-11-28 21:41|| Front Page Top

#22 Bob Dylan, is that you?
Posted by Secret Asian Man 2013-11-28 23:08||   2013-11-28 23:08|| Front Page Top

#23 shipman, you sound like one of the low info people we hear. Learn something, hug a dictionary.
Posted by Fat Bob Thraiting5901 2013-11-28 23:42||   2013-11-28 23:42|| Front Page Top

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