Signs of the Collapse of Corporate Media Influence Are Everywhere; Post-Election Ratings Crash Proves ‘Walls are Closing In’ on MSNBC and CNN

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Nolte: Signs of the Collapse of Corporate Media Influence Are Everywhere:

Within hours of the 2024 election being called for Donald Trump, I published this piece declaring the end of the era of corporate media dominance.

“The Road to the White House no longer goes through 60 Minutes, CNN, Fox News, Meet the Press, the New York Times editorial board, or the cover of Time Magazine,” I wrote. “That road now runs through the Joe Rogan Experience, Breitbart News, New Media, podcasts, talk radio, and social media.”

However, I also wrote that we will never be rid of the corporate media. The propaganda value is worth too much for the massive multinational corporations and billionaires who own these outlets to ever give them up.

Nevertheless, once the affirmative action of carriage fees through pay TV comes to an end (where you are forced to subscribe to a cable/satellite package that includes channels you never watch and those channels still receive an unearned piece of your monthly payment) CNN and MSNBC will no longer be profitable. They cannot survive on merit (advertising fees based on viewers), but they will always be around because soulless liars like Joy Reid, Jake Tapper, Brian Stelter, Nicole Wallace, Rachel Maddow, and Dana Bash do and say what their corporate and Deep State masters tell them to do and say.

Well, so what? Let them talk to each other in their velvet-lined echo chamber of serial hoaxes and intolerance. In the only arena that matters to the corporate media, the arena of influencing, shaping, and manipulating public opinion, they have already lost.

Don’t misunderstand. Far-left outlets like CNN, MSNBC, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, the New York Times, etc., will always control the thinking of thin-skinned leftists intolerant of outside ideas who seek only comfort and affirmation. But us Normal People? No, no more, and the closing days of the 2024 presidential election proved that.

The corporate media sprung four October Surprises on the public to win a close race for Kamala Harris, and none of them worked… --->READ MORE HERE

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Nolte: Post-election Ratings Crash Proves ‘Walls are Closing In’ on MSNBC and CNN:

A look at the post-election ratings shows the walls are finally closing in on MSNBC and CNN:

Thursday’s total average daily viewers on Fox News came in at 2.6 million and 375,000 in the coveted 25-54 age demographic, according to Nielsen data. Meanwhile, MSNBC brought in only 596,000 total viewers and 71,000 in the demo. CNN brought in 419,000 total viewers on Thursday and 91,000 viewers in the demo.

Fox News was up some 60 percent year over year for the day, while MSNBC and CNN were down 23 and 40 percent – respectively. In prime time the news was even more bleak for CNN and MSNBC as they shed 30 percent and 54 percent of their viewers, respectively, compared to the same day last year. MSNBC host Alex Wagner had her lowest rating show ever in terms of total viewers, while Chris Hayes’s show brought in its worst numbers since May of 2016.

Major Nielsen ratings plunge at MSNBC since Trump won, practically every day since. Just one example – 10/30 Wednesday vs Fri 11/8 –

• Morning Joe 1st hour – down 39.6%
• Morning Joe 2d hour – down 36.9% 
• Andrea Mitchell – down 39.7%
• Ari Melber – down 49.6%
• Joy Reid’s Reidout – down 54.6%
• All-in w Chris Hayes – down 47.2%
• Alex Wagner Tonight- down 53.6%
• Lawrence O’Donnell – down 60.6%
• Stephanie Ruhle – down 67%

Two questions…

Are the walls really closing in on MSNBC and CNN?

Or.

Am I simply using the phrase “walls closing in” to give Breitbart readers an endorphin rush so y’all click and my employer makes more money?

The answer to the first question is that I have no idea if the walls are closing in. None. I can’t see into the future. This ratings collapse might be a temporary one caused by thin-skinned, butt-hurt leftists who can only survive on comfort and affirmation choosing to avoid reality.

The answer to the second question is duh.

Actually, I used the “walls are closing in” phrase to make a point. For the last ten years, CNN and MSNBC have Charlie Browned their stupid viewers with the Lucy Football of The Walls Are Closing In On The Orange Bad Man.

Since 2015, CNN and MSNBC have insisted Trump is thisclose to prison, political oblivion, or that final thing that would finally-Finally-FINALLY! be the end of him.

For ten years, CNN and MSNBC have assured and reassured their gullible viewers that if you just stay tuned through the next segment, we will produce The Silver Bullet… --->READ MORE HERE

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