Even leftists don’t appear to be buying what CNN is selling now that Donald Trump has left office.
According to the Daily Caller, Nielsen statistics released Tuesday revealed that the “most trusted name in news” has lost nearly 70% of its viewers in the last few months, continuing a pattern that is only getting worse for Chris Cuomo & Co.
Even the most ardent progressive on Jeff Zucker’s network should be concerned by this drop. It’s easy to see why this is happening.
CNN abandoned any pretense of journalism during former President Donald Trump’s four years in office, committing itself totally to becoming the megaphone of the anti-Trump left.
Jim Acosta, a CNN White House correspondent at the time, embodied the hostility that characterized the mainstream media’s coverage of the Trump administration.
Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon, the mainstays of CNN’s nightly programming, consistently participated in self-aggrandizing attempts to discredit the lawfully elected president of the United States.
On the broadcast, Lemon would call Trump a “racist,” as if he were boldly speaking truth to power rather than pandering to his primarily left audience (the kind who undoubtedly gets their actual news from “comedians” like Stephen Colbert).
Cuomo, CNN’s resident tough guy, used to call Trump creative nicknames like “Dirty Donald” – while becoming irritated at being called “Fredo.”
His most recent awful part in the scandals involving his brother, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, and his feeble apologies for it hasn’t improved the network’s credibility either.
CNN’s @ChrisCuomo apologizes: “I put my colleagues here, who I believe are the best in the business, in a bad spot. I never intended for that, I would never intent for that, and I’m sorry for that.” pic.twitter.com/IeLtmcUT8g
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) May 21, 2021
The circus is no longer in town, and CNN’s viewership has dwindled.
According to Nielsen numbers cited by the Daily Caller, CNN has lost nearly 67 percent of its overall viewers since January. According to the Daily Caller, the network was down 71 percent among the 25-to-54-year-old demographic, which advertisers prize.
The data from this week isn’t an outlier. CNN’s problems have been on display since the network dedicated to removing Trump from office was granted its desire. MSNBC has seen a similar drop in viewership.
Independent writer Glenn Greenwald stated it up succinctly in a Twitter post:
“Because the political/media class cares about cable news, I don’t think it’s sunk in how the audience for MSNBC & CNN has disappeared almost completely. On the weekend, there’s basically *nobody* under 55 watching MSNBC,” he wrote.
“They barely get 50,000 people! Any YouTube video gets more.”
Because the political/media class cares about cable news, I don’t think it’s sunk in how the audience for MSNBC & CNN has disappeared almost completely. On the weekend, there’s basically *nobody* under 55 watching MSNBC. They barely get 50,000 people! Any YouTube video gets more. pic.twitter.com/6OQ7NG1wUG
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) May 25, 2021
Maybe it’s because the typical YouTube video — regardless of subject — includes more truth than the purposefully false “news” produced by media channels like CNN and MSNBC, nominally journalistic organizations that have long since lost their credibility with the general public.
CNN could get away with hazardous foolishness like reporting on “largely peaceful” rioting as American cities burned only when the left’s larger nemesis, Donald Trump, was in power.
Trump is no longer in office, and networks like CNN and MSNBC’s audiences are decreasing, demonstrating how politicized their coverage has been.
Instead, the US is headed by a stumbling, very definitely corrupt political hack in the White House. It has a vice president who was such a poor presidential candidate that she never received a single vote — Democratic or Republican — because her campaign terminated in December 2019, before any primary or caucus was held
Those regrettable facts aren’t solely the responsibility of biased, lying news organizations like CNN and MSNBC (there are also millions of liberal American voters to blame), but no honest person can deny it wasn’t the outcome they desired.
And now they have it.
And, it appears, even liberals aren’t buying what they’re selling, thanks to their astonishing journalistic and moral bankruptcy.
Sources: Westernjournal (1), dailycaller.com, Westernjournal (2), Westernjournal (3), Westernjournal (4), Westernjournal (5), Westernjournal (6), Westernjournal (7), Westernjournal (8), Westernjournal (9), Westernjournal (10), Westernjournal (11), usatoday.com