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I love these polls. They should go ahead and declare Biden the winner of the "popular vote". They at least got that one right with Hillary in '16 didn't they @Keyser76 ?
Here, from another recent article, is the most important tidbit about cable news channels. Cable news channels are slowly sliding into irrelevance.
"A closer look at the demo of ages 25 to 54, which is important for advertising, suggests millennials are rapidly cutting their cable cords. Ratings in that group fell 37% for CNN, compared with a 27% drop at MSNBC and a 21% dip at Fox."
"A closer look at the demo of ages 25 to 54, which is important for advertising, suggests millennials are rapidly cutting their cable cords. Ratings in that group fell 37% for CNN, compared with a 27% drop at MSNBC and a 21% dip at Fox."
And here from an article a few weeks back demonstrating the media (cable in particular) is their own worst enemy.
The Press will learn nothing from the Russiagate fiasco
The inability to face the enormity of the last few years of errors will cost the news media its credibility, even with blue-state audiences-by Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone Magazine
link
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/russiagate-fiasco-taibbi-news-media-826246/
key excerpts:
We’re not trying to be right more often than Trump — we’re trying to not be wrong, ever. It’s a standard, not a competition. You know what was fake news? Most of the Russiagate story. There was no Trump-Russia conspiracy, that thing we just spent three years chasing. The Mueller Report is crystal clear on this.
...more
As outlined in his initial mandate, Mueller explored “any links” between the Russian government and the campaign of Donald Trump. His conclusion spoke directly to the question of whether there was any kind of quid pro quo between the two sides:
“The investigation examined whether these contacts involved or resulted in coordination or a conspiracy with the Trump Campaign and Russia, including with respect to Russia providing assistance to the Campaign in exchange for any sort of favorable treatment in the future.”
In other words, all those fancy org charts were meaningless. Because there was no conspiracy, all those “walls are closing in” reports — and there were a ton of them — were wrong. We were told we’d hit “turning point” after “turning point” leading to the “the beginning of the end,” with Trump certain, soon, to either resign in shame, Nixon-style, or be impeached.
...finally
There was no blackmail, no secret bribe from Rosneft, no five-year cultivation plan, no evidence of any kind of any relationship that ever existed between the Trump campaign and Russian officials. The Mueller report makes clear reporters were sold wolf whistles over and over, led by reams of unnamed official sources who urged them to see meaning in meaningless things and assume connections that weren’t there.
This fiasco will surely end up being a net plus for Trump. The obstruction parts of the report make him look like a brainless goon and thug, but the absence of what Mueller repeatedly calls “underlying crime” make his ravings about an elitist mob out to get him look justified. This is not an easy thing to achieve, but we’re there, and the press is a big part of that picture.
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Viewers are deciding to "flush" CNN...without any "influence" from Russians either! :scream: