LEMON DROP | Corporate Media is in CRISIS!
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Why does Don say 'Corporate media is in crisis' and how bad are recent ratings declines?
Corporate media is in crisis. No other way to spin it, okay? MSNBC, CNN, their ratings have reportedly been slashed in half, collapsing to their lowest levels in nearly 30 years. Let's talk about MSNBC first. Their primetime audience has taken a staggering 53% hit, dropping from 1.34 million viewers before the election to just 632,000. That's according to the latest Nielsen reporting, the latest reporting from the media. CNN hasn't fared any better. The reporting's showing that they have lost 47% of its primetime viewers, down to 398,000. On some nights... The Nielsen ratings are showing that these networks aren't just losing to Fox News. They are losing to channels like the Food Network, the Hallmark Channel, Bravo, right, home of the Housewives.
Viewers are tuning in to the real housewives of Potomac, Atlanta, Beverly Hills, more often than they're tuning into CNN's reporting on the news of the day. And that's sad because there's big international news happening and CNN is the best. What is behind this? Well, there are a few things.
How large were MSNBC and CNN primetime audience drops according to Nielsen?
But first and foremost, corporate media is in the midst of a credibility crisis. And perhaps it is because of situations like this. Watch.
ABC News and George Stephanopoulos have reached a settlement with President-elect Trump in his defamation lawsuit. The network agrees to pay $15 million as a charitable contribution to Trump's presidential library. ABC and Stephanopoulos will also issue statements of regret as an editor's note to the March 2024 article and television segment that prompted Trump to file the lawsuit earlier this year. Trump sued Stephanopoulos after he asserted in an interview that, that Trump was found, quote, liable for rape in a civil case, despite the fact that a jury actually determined Trump was liable for, quote, sexual abuse, which has a distinct definition under New York law.
$15 million. $15 million. $15 million in order to what? Make a problem go away? Is it to admit guilt? Or is there perhaps another motivation here? Why do I say that? Because there are some very prominent legal minds who believe that this was an entirely winnable case for ABC News. One of those legal minds is, you know him, George Conway, the husband, former husband of Kellyanne Conway, riding on blue sky. George Conway says this about the ABC settlement. He says the ABC News settlement makes zero sense from a legal standpoint. It assumes there is a moral or reputational difference between forcibly penetrating a woman's vagina with fingers and doing so with a penis. It also assumes that Trump has a reputation that could suffer damage.
That is according to George Conway. Over on the Midas Touch Network, Ben Mycelis, he is just besides himself. Watch.
This is utterly outrageous what ABC just did. One by one, we've seen corporate media fold, kiss the ring, and not just obey in advance, but go through humiliation ritual after humiliation ritual. Here is what happened.
What unexpected channels are beating cable news in viewership and why does that matter?
ABC has announced that it will be paying $15 million to a charitable foundation controlled and or run by Donald Trump for Trump's future presidential library as part of a settlement when Donald Trump, in my opinion, filed what might have been the single most frivolous lawsuit against abc and george stefanopoulos i am waiting to hear what george stefanopoulos has to say but shame on you stefanopoulos shame on you abc and anybody who works at abc utterly atrocious and despicable what caused all this uproar in the first place about this settlement here's part of the exchange between abc anchor george stefanopoulos and congresswoman
Nancy Mace. Pay close attention.
I still get judged for it today. I'm asking you a very simple question. And I answered it.
You're shaming me for my political choices. I'm asking you a question about why you endorse someone who's been found liable for rape.
It was not a criminal court. It was a civil court that found him liable for rape. And by the way, she joked about the judgment and what she was going to do with all that money, and I find that offensive.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
Why does Don say 'Corporate media is in crisis' and how bad are recent ratings declines?
0:00–1:13
2
How large were MSNBC and CNN primetime audience drops according to Nielsen?
1:13–3:40
3
What unexpected channels are beating cable news in viewership and why does that matter?
3:40–5:56
4
What did ABC and George Stephanopoulos agree to in the Trump defamation settlement?
5:56–11:14
5
Why do legal commentators like George Conway call the ABC settlement legally questionable?
11:14–11:58
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