Scandal-Ridden Leftist Channel MSNBC Faces Lowest Ratings
The scandal-plagued leftist propaganda channel MSNBC is currently in the news for a crisis of its ratings and reputation. Since the November 5 election, MSNBC has been sinking in ratings and some of its media personalities are reportedly under pressure to leave the channel.
On Monday (December 2), Fox News reported that MSNBC recorded its lowest rating on November 26 in the past 20 years among its primary target audience of 25 to 54-year-old people. Multiple programs aired on the channel hot rock bottom in ratings since the channel’s sharp downfall in popularity began around the presidential election last month. The story wrote:
Multiple MSNBC programs have lost more than half their audience since Election Day when comparing demo viewership to 2024 averages.
The ratings in question show at least 50% drop in the audience of MSNBC’s otherwise most popular shows like those hosted by Jen Psaki, Chris Jansing, Rachel Maddow, Chris Hayes, and Joy Reid. Fox News added that per an insider’s information, MSNBC may even cease to exist as we know it now since its parent company NBCUniversal has corporate plans involving big changes to the network.
Robby Soave and Steven Olikara of The Hill discussed how the leftist media, particularly CNN and MSNBC have taken a hit by Trump’s victory.
A major scandal haunting MSNBC since the final weeks before the presidential election of November 5 involves leftist social justice activist Al Sharpton, who hosts the weekend show PoliticsNation on MSNBC. On October 20, Sharpton had Kamala Harris over for an interview of softball questions, not unusual for leftist media. However, soon after the election, which Harris lost by a big margin in the electrical votes, it surfaced that the Harris campaign had paid half a million dollars to Sharpton’s nonprofit organization. The donation was split over two payments, each of $250,000, in September and October.
The pay-for-play scandal drew sharp rebuke of Sharpton as well as of MSNBC and the Harris campaign over what seems an intentionally hidden conflict of interest. The New York Post cited an insider calling Sharpton a “wide berth” who doesn’t have journalistic standards. The channel admitted that it was unaware of the donations but has not taken any action against Sharpton to date. Amid the many calls for firing Al Sharpton, the National Black Church Initiative recently urged the MSNBC to suspend Sharpton and investigate the scandal.
On Thursday (December 5), The New York Post reported that Rashida Jones, MSNBC President, is reportedly planning to leave the channel after Donald Trump is sworn in as the 47th President of the United States in January. The story noted that a spokesperson for Jones denied the report. However, it added that CNN’s Brian Stelter confirmed the report citing his own sources.
Other leftist media sources have also suffered in the wake of last month’s presidential election. Even before the election, the leftist daily The Washington Post lost nearly quarter of a million subscribers soon after the paper announced it wouldn’t endorse any of the two presidential candidates. Thousands of Los Angeles Times subscribers were reported to have canceled their subscriptions for the same reason.
Jeff Bezos, owner of The Washington Post, announced that his paper would not endorse any candidate to stay neutral and bias-free. However, the paper’s history has leftist activism written all over it for a very long time.
This is definitely a black-eye if not worse for Sharpton, Harris, and MSNBC.
MSNBC says it did not know which probably leaves them off the hook, but the question will be: so what are you gonna do about it? Given it’s almost 2 weeks, I would be hopeful that they provide an explanation soon.
God knows what the Harris campaign was doing and, even if legal, there should be an investigation and explanation of what the fuck they were trying to do and why. Dempsey doesn’t mention that this is on top of the money Harris gave to Oprah, presumably explained away as production cost.
They may have given to another media outlet as well and I think she’s got some explaining to do at minimum. I’d like to know about the legality too.
I would think Sharpton should be removed from MSNBC, at least for atimeout.. Again, after checking about the legality and intent of the money.
However, in all of this, as usual, and paraphrasing Tom’s most excellent statement: Dempsey has his head way up his ass and apparently he likes the air up there. His headline claims that MSNBC is scandal ridden. He mentions this one occurrence, which is not even a scandal yet. He offers no other scandal to indicate MSNBC is scandal ridden. Just lies. He is a consistent fucking lowlife liar with the only intent to make Americans feel bad about other Americans, which somehow gives this Pakistani joy.
I spell my name: Danger. And I am Frank. Khaaaaaaaan!!!!
Danger – YOU are the same way, only worse!
MSNBC proves you really can Lie to all the people All the time.
Just, there is a price to pay eventually!
Darren offers zero evidence as proof of this.
What is interesting is that all during the Trump trial involving Storm Daniels and election interference and fraud, I watched a legal network of reporting lawyers who were in the trial audience. I then watched FOX and MSNBC and their reporting of the day. FOX lied quite a bit. MSNBC was much more accurate with only a few miss statements. The results spoke for themself. MSNBC was actually more accurate.
This article is really kind of a nothing article. There were only two salient points with no sources cited. Those points were: 1) MSNBC ratings go lower (and implied is that leftist base may be dwindling on cable news) ; 2) Sharpton’s organization accepted a generous donation from the Harris campaign.
1) Most internet articles from many sources agree that MSNBC ratings are down, but it is still the second most watch cable news network behind FOX. This article gives a good summary of the stats at *https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/cable-news-ratings-november-2024/* MSNBC has many of their reports and shows on the internet which is where I watch their segments. These viewers (like me) are not included in their cable statistics, and I do not use cable tv. While I do not dispute the fact that FOX viewership has gone up according to many articles and MSNBC viewership has gone down, the fact is that cable subscriptions are down, more are using the internet to view shows.
The facts on Cable subscriptions are as follows:
Yes, cable subscriptions are down:
Subscriber loss: In 2023, the US pay TV industry lost around five million subscribers. In Q2 2024, cable lost 1.03 million subscribers, the tenth consecutive quarter of double-digit losses.
Viewership decline: Average cable viewership has dropped from 38% of US households to 28%.
Subscription projections: By the end of 2024, cable subscribers are expected to drop to 70 million, down from 105 million in 2010.
The decline in cable subscriptions is due to a number of factors, including:
Cord-cutting: The rise of streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime Video has allowed viewers to cut the cord and choose more affordable and customizable options. Rising costs: Cable has become more expensive. Poor content quality: Some say the quality of cable content has declined. Some pay TV providers, like Charter and Comcast, have tried to offset subscriber losses by entering the streaming space. However, it’s unclear if this will be enough to stop the decline.
Sep 4, 2024 — U.S. Pay TV Loses 1.62 Million Subscribers in Q2, 10th Consecutive Quarter of Double-Digit Percentage Losses for Linear…
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So the theme of what Ernestine Dumpster is pushing, “MSNBC viewership down thus leftists ranks are dwindling” may not be true at all if his statistics had included internet views of MSNBC show segments on Youtube.
2) I have personally watched Sharpton’s show on two occasions. It was boring. Sharpton needs to stick to his core competency which is religious grifting and racially motivated reporting to build his donation coffers. Sharpton has been strategically absent on such issues of “black on black shootings where both cop and suspect were same race. For some reason and I cannot fathom why, there was a case where a young 26 year old black woman moved from Massachusetts to Austin Texas for her dream job in her home state. Along the way in Texas she was stopped for a minor traffic issue like a non-functioning rear turn signal and light. I viewed the dash cam tape and she was clearly abused by cops, they were white. She was put in jail, and yup, she died there a few days later. Sharpton did nothing. He is very selective with which cases he will invest his time. MSNBC would benefit by dropping his show and maybe coming up with a point-counterpoint show like Bill O’Reilly used to have on FOX at 8 p.m. MSNBC may not cancel Sharpton due to the optics of ditching a black hosted show.
As far as Harris campaign donating or paying money to Sharpton’s coffers, they are free to do so, and Sharpton is free to accept the payment. I do believe it would be more ethical to at least state in a visible banner that the interview is a paid interview and who did the paying and who received the payment. I do not see this financial transaction as a Dumpster described “scandal”. And if anyone wants to find many paid for scandals or “pay to play” operations, you only need to look at Trump campaign where he paid folks at the NY Bodega to act like protesters, and paid one of his campaign related employees to act as some sort of on-site news reporter. He did the same thing that very same day with a NYFD station where he posed taking pizzas into the station for the firemen when it was revealed later that the pizzas were already there. There are many more “pay to play” with Trump, just search the internet. Trump also does something worse than “pay to play”; he openly threatens senators and congressmen and woman with retribution if they do not vote inline with his ideas! Just ask Senator Joni Ernst, or watch this report that FOX did not report and MSNBC did at *https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/maga-pressure-campaign-in-full-force-against-gop-senators-who-might-oppose-trump-s-picks-226731589955*
That’s a freaky typo