CNN and MSNBC ratings plummet, Fox News triumphs in wake of 'no collusion'

[mystery-ak]

March 27, 2019
CNN and MSNBC ratings plummet, Fox News triumphs in wake of 'no collusion'
By Peter Barry Chowka

The long-awaited news on Sunday that the Mueller Report had exonerated President Trump of collusion with Russia instantly shed major new light on the complicity of the mainstream media in perpetrating the mass delusion of collusion. The news also had an immediate and potentially game-changing impact on the cable news television ratings.

Starting on Sunday and continuing all day Monday, CNN and MSNBC – the two cable “news” channels that over the past two years have morphed into high-impact electronic facilitators of the anti-Trump resistance – saw their ratings plummet… precipitously. Meanwhile, the Fox News Channel (FNC), the only mainstream media outlet to even question the whole collusion meme from the outset, trounced the competition. On Monday, Fox News had more than twice as many viewers – in both total numbers and in the preferred 25-54 year old demographic – than MSNBC and CNN combined. According to Nielsen Media Research, FNC surpassed CNN and MSNBC combined in every hour on Monday from 5 PM to 12 midnight while CNN had its 2nd lowest weekday prime time ratings of 2019 and its 3rd lowest demo of the year.

Obviously energized and invigorated by the positive official news absolving President Trump of collusion, Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, and Laura Ingraham, FNC’s three prime time hosts, did some of their best shows ever on Monday. Greatly assisting their efforts was their access to and the expert editing and presentation of an archive of video clips of CNN and MSNBC hosts and guests projecting the demise of President Trump and predicting his indictment at the hands of Special Counsel Robert Mueller going back to 2016 and right up to last week. The unequivocal description of the Mueller Report by Attorney General William Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein that there was no collusion with Russia on the part of Trump and his campaign to impact the 2016 presidential election gave added meaning to the clips and to the analysis by the hosts and guests all evening on Fox News.

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[Sanguine]

The simple explanation (for this simple person) is that CNN and MSNBC used the Mueller investigation to keep their viewers anxious and concerned so that they had to tune in to CNNMSNBC on a regular basis to find out what further nefarious things the Trump administration had been up to.  When the Mueller report came out and didn't support those things, there is simply no reason to tune in. 

[Free Vulcan]

When you hinge your whole strategy on breathlessly hyping the anticipation of an outcome of something that doesn't pan out, what do you expect?

They gambled, played things to the hilt, and lost big. Oh well.

[truth_seeker]

Rachell Maddow makes $10 million.

Maddow, Cooper, Lemon all homosexuals.

I see a future in the cable news business, for Jusssie. "once a victim, now with his own show"

[jmyrlefuller]

I would've thought more people would tune into CNN and MSNBC just for the entertainment value of watching the meltdown.