MSNBC’s Barnicle: I Don’t Know How We Can Make Cable News ‘Relevant Again’

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Pam Key 19 Nov 2024

MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” senior contributor Mike Barnicle said Tuesday that he doesn’t know how political commentators on cable news can make themselves “relevant again.”

Co-host Mika Brzezinski said, “New research shows one in five adults regularly get their news from influencers on social media. The number is even higher among younger Americans with almost 40% under the age of 30 getting their news from those sources. According to the Pew Research Center the social media site X remains the most widely accessed platform followed by Instagram and YouTube.”

Co-host Joe Scarborough said, “Mike, that’s the challenge, you grew up in a newsroom like Eugene grew up in a newsroom, I mean that’s a challenge for a lot of mainstream media sources is do they make themselves relevant again. Here, 20% of adults who actually get influencers on social media. Maybe somebody who makes baskets and while they’re making baskets, they look up and say, vote for candidate X.”

Barnicle said, “I don’t know how we make ourselves relevant again because we can’t compete with 20 second snippets on an iPhone, walking up the street and getting your entire news digest of the day in less than a minute on your phone as you’re walking in a crowd with coffee in one hand and your phone in the other. I don’t know how we catch up to that.”

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[DefiantMassRINO]

1.) Mike Barnicle is a fraud who got fired from the Boston Globe for fabricating fake stories, and presenting them as real.

2.) Most of the country does not live in New York or Washington, DC.

3.) Too little diversity of subject matter, education, experience, geography, age, and perspectives on CNN and MSNBC.  (They are too focused on Northeast / DC / West Coast elites.)

4.) The blood thirsty viewers want to see rhetorical WWE matches about the issues rather than a parrot-ing of one side's views.

They want to be entertained and informed, not lectured to.  They want to see someone with whom they identify.

The target audience for lamestream media is college-educated middle-aged suburbanites who still read the New York Times and the Boston Globe.

[Cyber Liberty]

Maybe they should ask Fox News how they do it.  They are still pretty relevant, judging from their ratings.  It seems only CNN, MSNBC et al are having this problem.