The tanking leftist media

 Emerald Robinson:

Two recent articles from Axios and the Associated Press finally quantified just how much the American public has turned off corporate media in 2021.

In 2021, CNN’s weekday prime-time viewership dropped 38%.

Fox News Channel was down 34%.

MSNBC dropped 25%.

This no doubt helps to explain why unpopular hosts like Chris Wallace at Fox News and Joy Reid at MSNBC are being removed from their slots.

The old broadcast television evening newscasts also declined:

ABC’s “World News Tonight” was down 12%.

CBS “Evening News” was also down 12%.

NBC’s “Nightly News” declined 14%.

As for legacy print media, the losses were equally staggering:

The Washington Post had a 44% decline in unique visitors to their site when comparing November 2021 to November 2020.

The New York Times had a 34% decline in unique visitors to their site when comparing November 2021 to November 2020.

What’s even more incredible is that social media “engagement” (likes, comments, shares) with news articles was down 65% between 2020 and 2021.

The obvious question: where did all those viewers go? It looks like the American public is switching over to independent media. There’s plenty of evidence for this hypothesis. Joe Rogan’s podcast now has an audience that’s almost 4 times the size of the highest rated cable news shows. That’s right: 11 million people listened to the latest Joe Rogan podcast.
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The media that gave us Joe Biden is not to be trusted by most Americans.  I can't remember the last time I watched any of the network newscasts or read the WaPo or NY Times. 

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