Signature evening shows led by Rachel Maddow at 9 PM Eastern are fading. Newly launched programs such as Ronan Farrow are “duds,” reports the New York Times.
Even critically acclaimed favorites followed closely by Beltway denizens in Washington and media mavens in New York alike, like ex-Congressman Joe Scarborough’s chatfest, are losing viewers: “‘Morning Joe’ has been hurt because no one is tuning in to watch the channel now; they go right by,” an anonymous network executive told the newspaper. “The show took its eye off the ball, but you can’t discount the fact that nobody is watching the channel.”
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I still think Olbermann was canned because he was gonna treat Obama the same way he treated Bush. Keith’s show was instrumental in changing my father from the Archie Bunker he was in the 70’s into a person that was really paying attention and able to see the fault in his way and especially the faults of the GOP. He passed in 2011. I miss him and George Calin very much.
Have you read Michael Arria’s “Medium Blue: The Politics of MSNBC”? It’s a very good leftist takedown of MSNBC and its many failings, covering a few of your points, and it forever turned me off to the network. The treatment of Phil Donohue and Cenk Uygur behind the scenes was disgraceful.
I think the reason the lefties lose marketshare is a simple one.
Cast back through memory. Rachel and Keith and all the others. What have they actually fought for and won? I don’t mean ideals. I mean actual struggles. Did Keith Olbermann ever get a crooked politician indicted? Did Rachel Maddow ever get a businessman dragged away in chains to serve a 15-year sentence?
That’s the problem. Anyone can complain. Very few people are in a position to compel change by focusing public attention.
Agree with your last point, but can Fox News boast of winning their struggles? Obama is still president, Dubya is mostly discredited, and Benghazi is a joke.
Senator,
I think Fox News IS winning. They throw 10 issues into the air, none of which really matter. When people start to figure out that, yeah, gay marriage really isn’t going to matter, that’s okay. Fox has 10 more things to put up in the air.
The prisons are full to bursting. Why? Because the Progressives disapprove but can’t organize sufficiently to do anything about it.