The fakest of them all, is a sinking ship. MSNBC treads water during jam-packed news quarter, fails to add viewers By Brian Flood | Fox News The first quarter of 2020 was filled to the brim with news, from the impeachment trial of President Trump and the contentious Democratic primary to the growing coronavirus pandemic, but MSNBC failed to add viewers, and experts say that's a serious issue for the far-left network. “This should concern the MSNBC hierarchy,” DePauw University professor and media critic Jeffrey McCall told Fox News. Fox News grew 38 percent among total viewers during the first quarter of 2020 compared to the same time period last year, and MSNBC's liberal rival CNN grew 26 percent, while MSNBC finished the quarter with roughly the same viewership as Q1 of 2019. USNS COMFORT DOCKS IN NY 10 DAYS AFTER RACHEL MADDOW SAID IT WOULD TAKE 'WEEKS' It was even worse for MSNBC when it comes to the key news demographic of adults age 25-54, as Fox News grew 42 percent and CNN grew 27 percent, while MSNBC dropped by one percent – losing viewers during, arguably, the most newsworthy quarter in a decade. MSNBC’s primetime lineup of Chris Hayes, Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O’Donnell was completely flat compared to last year, while Fox News and CNN both grew by at least 35 percent during the hours of 8-11 p.m. ET. MSNBC still managed to finish the quarter behind Fox News as the No. 2 basic cable network, but the lack of growth during a jam-packed news quarter should be extremely concerning to MSNBC honchos, McCall said. FOX NEWS CHANNEL RATINGS FOR FIRST QUARTER OF 2020 ARE THE HIGHEST IN NETWORK HISTORY "The impeachment trial, COVID-19 coverage and the Democrat presidential primary should have all provided MSNBC plenty of spark to generate audience growth. The flat MSNBC viewership numbers suggest that the channel can maintain their loyal, core audience, but that the appeal of MSNBC is limited beyond the channel's true believers,” McCall said. "The flat MSNBC viewership numbers suggest that the channel can maintain their loyal, core audience, but that the appeal of MSNBC is limited beyond the channel's true believers... this should concern the MSNBC hierarchy." — Media critic Jeffrey McCall “It is natural that big stories such as impeachment, COVID-19 and the contested Democrat primary will draw the less consistent news viewers back into the audience, including viewers who are more politically independent," McCall explained. "That MSNBC apparently failed to attract some of this audience growth would seem to indicate that MSNBC's appeal is largely to a narrow, more ideologically driven news consumer.' Video McCall says the marketplace is telling NBC executives that their “appeal is limited beyond the normal core” and that “casual news viewers don't see MSNBC as a place to get something other than the expected ideologically-charged point of view,” which is typically far-left and anti-Trump. “MSNBC has made money off of this strategy, but it is limiting when it comes time for covering high-impact stories and trying to reach broader demographics,” McCall added. “The Rachel Maddow Show,” which is the network’s most popular program and cash cow, finished the first quarter behind five different Fox News programs, including non-primetime shows “The Five” and “Special Report with Bret Bair.” On March 25, Maddow’s show even finished outside the 20 most-watched cable news programs among the key demo, something that would have been unthinkable not long ago. Video Maddow has famously spent much of her program hyperventilating over whether or not Trump colluded with Russia until Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report contradicted her nightly narrative. At the time, ex-MSNBC host Krystal Ball blasted her former colleague for floating wild “Russian conspiracy theories” that were not supported by Mueller's report. RACHEL MADDOW'S CREDIBILITY AND RATINGS AT A LOW EBB FOLLOWING MUELLER FINDINGS, CRITICS SAY “Rachel Maddow, you’ve got some explaining to do,” Ball said, but Maddow hasn’t stopped anti-Trump speculation. Maddow recently told her viewers it was “nonsense” to believe Trump’s word that the USNS Comfort could be ready to quickly help New Yorkers, but it arrived at the front lines of the coronavirus outbreak only 10 days after her comment. “In the midst of a global crisis, people are turning to other outlets, not MSNBC." — Dan Gainor “In the midst of a global crisis, people are turning to other outlets, not MSNBC. Maybe that's because they don't want to hear more lies about Russian collusion from Rachel Maddow. Or more lies in general from Brian Williams. Or maybe it's just because no one other than their core audience takes them seriously,” Media Research Center vice president Dan Gainor told Fox News. Video "Maybe it's just because no one other than their core audience takes them seriously." — Dan Gainor Fourth Watch editor Steve Krakauer on Sunday slammed MSNBC’s Brian Williams, who was famously demoted from NBC’s “Nightly News” after embellishing stories, for his “over-the-top” criticism of Dr. Deborah Birx. “There's a way to critique the administration and the president, and then there's these low points from journalists who really should know better,” Krakauer wrote, comparing Williams to a “basement blogger.” Williams also had an embarrassing math debacle in March, inaccurately suggesting the $500 million that Michael Bloomberg spent on advertising during his short-lived presidential campaign could have supplied every American with their own check for $1 million. In reality, however, had Bloomberg divvied his advertising dollars among all Americans, the per-capita cash-out would have been more like $1.53 per person – not even enough to take a ride on New York City’s subway. MSNBC WORKING AGAINST BERNIE SANDERS' DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION, CRITICS SAY Video Status Coup founder and journalist Jordan Chariton used to cover cable news ratings when he was an editor for TVNewser earlier in his career. He’s been an outspoken critic of what he calls “corporate media” and has another theory about MSNBC’s lack of growth in the ratings department. “There's something else that was occurring in that first quarter that might have made MSNBC viewers look away—Bernie Sanders winning Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada,” Chariton told Fox News. In fact, MSNBC was widely criticized during the quarter for its antagonistic coverage of Sanders, as many observers felt progressive MSNBC hosts and pundits openly preferred a moderate Democrat such as Joe Biden. CNN'S BRIAN STELTER WINS FIRST-EVER 'LIBERAL HACK TOURNAMENT,' TOPPING MAINSTREAM MEDIA GIANTS If MSNBC brass is concerned about the lack of new viewers, they certainly haven’t implemented any changes yet. The network didn’t get off to a strong start to the second quarter from a credibility standpoint on Wednesday, as “Morning Joe” namesake Joe Scarborough was widely mocked on social media after declaring that “everybody” saw the coronavirus epidemic coming “in early January” despite his own show not even uttering the word coronavirus until Jan. 24, according to Grabien Media. Grabien founder Tom Elliot noted that Scarborough’s first commentary on coronavirus occurred roughly two months after what could be considered “early January.”
The New York Times doesn't have to harass Carlson to get him off the air--Carlson is doing a good job of getting himself off the air with the recent reports of racist/sexist/homophobic writers and his own alleged sexual harassment.
If they are, sure, they should stop. Probably not going to take Tucker's word for it that they're targeting him for harassment.
Lawsuit comes out, Tucker is trying to bang other women. Same day, Tucker, "I'm a victim!" Let's see the article.
Twitter, Facebook Censored Trump, Campaign 65 Times, Leave Biden Untouched Corinne Weaver and Alec Schemmel October 19th, 2020 8:47 AM Big Tech has caused serious damage to President Donald Trump’s ability to be heard on social media. Twitter and Facebook have censored the president’s social media accounts and the accounts belonging to his re-election campaign at least 65 times. In contrast, the companies have not censored former Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his campaign accounts. At all. Twitter composes the bulk of the problem, with 98 percent of all the instances of censorship. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that Twitter has made the decision to censor major headlines about the Biden family, particularly when it came to the New York Post’s story about Hunter Biden’s dealings with Ukraine. The Media Research Center’s Techwatch department analyzed two years of social media posts from Trump, Biden, and their respective campaigns. The analysis did not include any ads from PACs or super PACs that had made ads in favor of either candidate. It also focused on social media posts, not paid advertisements, from the campaigns. These numbers were collected from between May 2018 to October 16, 2020. In addition, Twitter and Facebook employees have funneled money into Democrat campaigns. In a previous study released by MRC Business, the numbers showed that Facebook and Twitter had given over 90 percent of their political contributions to Democrats in 2020. Twitter Twitter has been far and away the biggest offender, labeling, fact-checking, and removing Trump’s tweets and the tweets from his campaign accounts 64 times since the president’s election. Tweets about the president’s concern over mail-in voting, COVID-19, and the Black Lives Matter protests have been given “public interest notices.” Videos retweeted by the president depicting a satirical version of Biden walking on stage to the song “F*** Tha Police” have been deleted as well, after a fact-check from Poynter Institute’s PolitiFact. The actual video showed Biden playing the song "Despacito.” Twitter fired first in the war between Trump and Big Tech when it completely deleted three tweets from the president on July 28, 2020. It removed tweets about the drug hydroxychloroquine. Memes apparently are not allowed on the president’s account either. A meme showing Trump saying “in reality, they’re not after me. They’re after you” was removed from his June 30 tweet. Meme videos and meme creators who make pro-Trump content have suffered at the hands of Twitter. One instance is Carpe Donktum, the meme creator who made a video mocking the Democrats’ reaction to the 2019 State of the Union address. The video, retweeted by Trump, was removed after a copyright complaint. Donktum, whose real name is Logan Cook, was also removed in June 2020 after Trump had tweeted another one of his videos showing two toddlers hugging each other, with fake CNN chyrons at the bottom. This censorship goes back as far as the beginning of the Trump presidency. A rogue Twitter employee in 2017 deactivated Trump’s account on his last day at work, leaving it offline for 11 minutes. Trump’s two tweets of Drudge headlines in 2018 were given the “sensitive content” filter over top of the tweets. Users who have been retweeted by Trump play a game of censorship roulette as well. According to the Daily Beast, “Nearly 10 percent of the unverified accounts retweeted by President Trump since his inauguration are currently suspended from Twitter for various violations of the platform’s policies.” One user was quoted in the Daily Beast as saying, “Twitter’s always been fair to me, until the president of the United States retweeted me.” Seventeen accounts at least have been suspended since Trump’s inauguration. The Trump campaign’s accounts have also been struck by censorship on Twitter. Team Trump has had four videos removed, including one that talked about pro-life policies. In addition, the Trump campaign was also suspended for sharing the controversial Hunter Biden emails story from the New York Post. Facebook Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a speech given at Georgetown University on Oct. 17, 2019 that Facebook would “continue to stand for free expression.” But since then, Trump and the Trump campaign have been censored on the platform five times. Instagram, Facebook’s sister company, removed one video as well. Each time, the platform has made the statement that it opposes whatever Trump and the campaign have said or stood for. A video attacking Antifa was removed from the platform, because it violated the platform’s “organized hate policy” for featuring an upside-down red triangle. The ad asked supporters “to sign a petition and "stand with your President and his decision to declare ANTIFA a Terrorist Organization.” The ad was removed from both the president’s page and his campaign’s page. However, multiple violent Antifa pages that have doxxed members of the Senate remain on the platform, unscathed. Facebook fact-checkers, certified by the liberal Poynter Institute’s Independent Fact-Checking Network, also fact-checked a video that showed Biden saying, “We cannot win this re-election. Excuse me, we can only re-elect Donald Trump.” The video was labeled “partially false” and given an interstitial, or a filter, that suppressed the spread of the content on the platform.
