CNN And MSNBC Ratings COLLAPSE After "No Collusion" Report
Rachel Maddow MSNBC Ratings TANK After "No Collusion" Report and Fox news ratings are up Across the board. Its not just MSNBC though, CNN ratings also took a huge hit.Rachel Maddow had been close to taking the 1st place slot in primetime cable before news broke of "no collusion" and "no obstruction" but is now fallen to 6th place.Many Democrats and people on the left bet so much on the Russia narrative and Russiagate hoax that when news broke they are facing the repercussion of chasing the "trump bump."Donald Trump has been mostly exonerated by the Barr summary. While it is possible there will be damning information in Robert Mueller's full report it would seem that we are done with the narrative. Yet those on CNN and MSNBC can't let this go, they staked too much on this.
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While it is possible we may learn about some objectionable behaviors or unethical activities from the Trump administration and his base, we're now learning there's no collusion, no obstruction, and after two years the story is effectively dead.
The repercussions of which are bad news for MSNBC and journalists who staked their careers on this narrative.
We're seeing a massive drop in ratings for MSNBC and many of its personalities.
But what can they do?
For years they pushed this narrative and it turned out to be a nothing burger.
Well, they're not giving up yet.
They're hoping that the investigation will expand into a counterintelligence investigation.
Maybe something in the report can still give them the chance to push that narrative that the president is somehow working with someone somewhere or something.
No, it's probably not true.
We can always remain a little bit skeptical, but these people have built up hundreds of thousands of followers, and they chased the Trump bump to get the ratings.
And now we face the repercussions today.
Let's take a look at the latest ratings from MSNBC, which have dropped significantly, and from Fox News, who have skyrocketed in the past week.
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Surprisingly, from the Daily Beast just this morning, MSNBC's Trump-Russia ratings juggernaut fizzles!
Time to pivot to 2020.
The Mueller report and its potential implications have driven the network's coverage and monster ratings for two years.
Now it's ended with a whimper leaving executives in a bind.
The story says several hours before Barr's letter was released, former intelligence officer Malcolm Nance predicted on MSNBC that the report could technically eclipse Benedict Arnold.
In its level of treasonous activity.
But when Nance returned to MSNBC several hours after Barr's letter was made public,
the network contributor did little to hide his displeasure about why the investigation hadn't
resulted in more criminal indictments, saying, we've seen these things occur, and in any other
standard, these people would have been arrested, they would have been polygraphed, and would have
been brought to trial, he said. Over the past two years, Nance has been one of MSNBC's most
outspoken personalities commenting on the network's most important story, Mueller's investigation of
Russian interference.
Hosts like Rachel Maddow have seen their ratings notably increase as the investigation unfolded While other anchors like Ari Melber have built major elements of their shows around interviews of witnesses of the investigation to get their perspective on Mueller's probe.
Within MSNBC, there's an acknowledgment that the Trump-Russia narrative on which the cable network, and especially its primetime star Madau, built monster ratings has fizzled for the moment.
Insiders also claim, not to be surprised, that the conclusion of the long-awaited Mueller report, or at least the Trump-appointed Attorney General summary, was a whimper, not a bang for an outlet that has invested so much time and energy in primetime and throughout its day parts in the notion that Trump is unworthy of the Oval Office and might at some point be forced to give up.
They say Maddow, who has consistently vied for the first or second top-rated cable news program, was sixth It's not just Maddow, however.
almost 500,000 total viewers from the previous Monday, as was MSNBC's second top-rated program
in primetime, The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell.
Conversely, it was obviously a big couple of nights for Fox, said one network insider,
claiming, however, that nobody at MSNBC is panicking.
It's not just Maddow, however.
Across the board, MSNBC ratings are down, and Fox News ratings are up.
I guess that's what's going to happen when for years you tell your audience there's evidence,
there's collusion, there's weird meetings, and then it turns out to be nothing.
Some news organizations won Pulitzer Prizes for their coverage of Russiagate.
And many journalists have said, but they didn't get the details wrong.
You can criticize the end results, but at least the journalists did their job.
Jeff Zucker of CNN said, we're not investigators, we're just reporting the facts as we know them.
And people have tried to defend the media, in which, in my opinion, they shouldn't.
The two orgs won for the specific stories in the third screenshot.
John M. Dave and Molly Hemingway have been critical of The Washington Post and New York
Times receiving Pulitzers for their Russia investigation.
The two orgs won for the specific stories in the third screenshot.
I ask earnestly, what did they get wrong?
Adding, to be clear, I'm not saying the media didn't make mistakes.
I'm just asking about the criticism that Wapo NYT shouldn't have received Pulitzers for this specific list of stories.
I do want to point out Yashar Ali is a pretty damn good journalist, and I have tremendous respect for him, and he brings up a good point, to which I would like to respond.
If you hire someone to help carry bricks for you so you can build your house, and they correctly lift the bricks and carry them for two miles, In the wrong direction.
You're not going to be giving them an award.
Sure, they carried the bricks right, they carried a really long distance, they did hard work, but they still wasted my time.
To which Twitter user NeonTaster added, It's also a bit like pointing to all the factual details you included in a 9-11 conspiracy theory article.
Not comparing the two things, but getting some things right within the larger context of an entirely wrong theory isn't super praiseworthy.
News organizations won awards for covering the details of an investigation that was essentially a conspiracy theory.
While I can praise the 9-11 truthers who got some of the details right, ultimately, I'm not really that concerned.
I think it's important to dig into these stories, for sure, don't get me wrong.
And yes, they did a good job, but again, they carried the bricks in the wrong direction.
We would have been better off if they carried the bricks in the right direction, meaning they did investigating and found the stories were mostly without merit.
How did we come to a point where Muller said, no collusion, or at least Barr's summary says that, with a quote from Muller, and we were shocked to find that to be the case?
It's because they walked in the wrong direction for years!
But let's take a look at the ratings.
Because the ratings speak volumes.
Adweek.com scoreboard, Monday, March 18th.
Let's take a look at the total primetime viewership in the thousands for Fox News and MSNBC.
We can see that we've got 1.3 million for Cavuto.
The numbers go up.
Let's take a look at 9pm specifically for Rachel Maddow.
2.9 for Hannity and 2.9 for Maddow.
Let's jump one week later when we learned no collusion.
Hannity at 4 million, nearly a million up.
And Maddow is down at nearly 500,000.
But not just that.
Across the board, Fox News is way, way up for basically everyone.
And MSNBC is down for basically everyone.
You know, some people said to me, Tim, this feels like election night all over again when Bill Barr's summary came out.
Because the media knew all of these stories, award-winning stories.
And there were people on TV saying, ooh, the hammer of justice will come down and then... Nothing.
You know what?
It actually is.
Just like election night.
And don't take my word for it.
Take Snopes' word for it.
Snopes has this story.
CNN and MSNBC in ratings freefall.
Fox soundly beating both combined?
And their verdict?
True.
From the claim, Fox News is well above both CNN and MSNBC in television viewership, and has increased their lead since the 2016 election.
Fact.
The origin of this story.
On 7 December 2016, the website Truthfeed published an article reporting that the MSNBC and CNN cable news channel went into a ratings freefall after the 2016 presidential election, while Fox News' viewership increased, and here we are again.
Oh, I highlighted MSNBC.
But on the 18th, we can even see the ratings of CNN.
Oh, and it's going to go way down in one week, because there it is.
The ratings have dropped one week later, yet Fox News is up again.
I feel like we're living in some kind of strange alternate timeline.
Jussie Smollett's lawyer is the one who's actually implicated in a crime, and he's the one who gets his charges dismissed.
Donald Trump is president, and the Mueller report came back with nothing.
Wow.
What's going on?
People like to claim Fox News is fake news.
That's been the narrative most of my life.
As someone who grew up liberal, they said Fox News is fake news, don't believe it.
Yet Fox News's ratings continue to increase.
And CNN and MSNBC's writings take a huge hit.
They did in 2016, and they did again in 2019.
Election night played out all over again.
How is it that the media is so dramatically out of touch, they keep falling into these traps?
But worse still, how is it that so many people still believe the media?
While trust in media is way, way down, Many people still watched MSNBC and CNN.
This, please, has to be the death knell for CNN and MSNBC continually pumping out these fake stories.
How can you, for years, chase after a narrative that turns out to be false and expect to retain any credibility?
They still won't let it go.
But Glenn Greenwald, who has been railing MSNBC and the media endlessly, is not giving up.
This morning, tweeting, The cash cow is dying, and that's why they're clinging so tightly to it.
It's also why they kept all left liberal dissent off the air for three years.
They couldn't have their audience know any of this was in meaningful dispute.
Not just NBC as a corporation made huge amounts of profit off the scam, but so did their stars and personalities.
They became unimaginably rich for life by peddling a fraudulent story for three years while purposely ensuring their audience never heard from those who questioned it.
Yesterday, he tweeted, Truly amazing.
MSNBC has succeeded in convincing a lot of people that William Barr is running around radically misrepresenting
the true findings of the Mueller report and Mueller and his team of high-powered lawyers
are just sitting silently by while he does it.
How dumb and gullible do you have to be to believe this?
MSNBC is like an apocalyptic cult that kept promising its flock the world would end on a specific date, and now that it hasn't, they have to invent new theories to keep them hooked.
Hence, Mueller found collusion, but Barr is lying.
Glenn Greenwald doubling down on this humorous narrative with, is Bob Mueller locked away in a CIA black site in the basement of Trump Tower bound in gag to prevent him from telling us that William Barr is lying about his report and that he really did find collusion?
We'll talk to our panel of former CIA agents and Malcolm Nance next, linking this image.
From the advocate, Manow, Russians may be controlling our government.
And that is why your ratings are down.
Because you are conspiracy theorists.
There are people who want their worldview confirmed and they'll keep watching you.
But there are people who are genuinely concerned that something may be going on in our government and we may be in trouble.
And now they learned that's not true.
And they learned that you continue to peddle some kind of narrative to keep the Trump bump.
It's an addiction.
It's a hell of a drug.
And they don't want to let it go.
The money was too good.
They can't let it go.
They've hooked themselves in.
They believe their own BS.
Well, now here we are.
Whether you want to admit it or not, Fox News ratings are skyrocketing, and MSNBC and CNN are way down again, just like 2016.
They knew in 2016 Hillary would win.
They were wrong, and people were shocked.
How could this be reality?
And now they're doing it to you again.
I'm rather shocked as well, because as I mentioned earlier, I grew up with Fox News being the hyper-partisan fake news channel, but it seems they're now doing a better job And it seems like it can't be reality.
Fox News ratings are up.
They're the ones who got the story right.
CNN is wrong?
I'm surprised people can't believe it.
Their worldview is being shattered right before their eyes.
But let me know what you think in the comments below.
We'll keep the conversation going.
Hate to say I told you so, but the media tends to be full of crap, at least as of late.
And it sucks.
Because we do need good journalism and good journalists to fight through the BS to figure out what's really going on.
So let me know what you think, and we'll carry on with the conversation.
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