It’s now just been reported that Chris Wallace is leaving CNN to “explore podcasting”. With the recent new CNN is firing hundreds of employees after going from 13.3 million average viewers in 2016 to… 800k in 2024. Comcast is looking to ditch their dumpster fire MSNBC, CNBC, Oxygen, Sci-Fi, and Bravo networks because they’re probably putting out the same or worse decline as cnn. Peacock, NBCs streaming service has yet to turn a profit. And the icing on the cake? “According to Forbes, there were only three cable networks in 2023 with an average audience above one million viewers, down from five the previous year and down from 19 in 2013.” They’re dying on the vine, their streaming services can’t make money, and they are too useless to even keep around as propaganda rags. With the potential death of the first AAA game publisher on the horizon (Ubisoft) we are seeing largest consequences of “get woke go broke” in our lifetimes.
Update: The Guardian is no longer posting on X, Don Lemon is leaving X, expect more to follow suit. This is just hilarious.
Edit 2: numbers reflect an average from last Wednesday to Friday. That marks a 54% decrease in the network's viewership average in the month of October (1.765 million viewers) as well as a 51% decrease in the network's year-to-date 2024 average (1.655 million viewers). Additionally, on Friday MSNBC saw 636,000 viewers and 61,000 in the demo, making it the network's lowest rated non-holiday night of the year.
I've said this multiple times both here, and on reddit. The left is going to be gunning so hard to get people off Twitter/X, and to outright destroy it now. They absolutely cannot stand the fact that they no longer have complete control over the messaging/narrative going out to the masses. Those "Community Notes" corrections that now appear every time some entity like The Guardian, The Washington Post, The New York Times, etc. tries to set the narrative (to a BS spin of what really happened) infuriates them. Think about how they used this control during the first Trump presidency. That is now (currently) not available to them, and they are shitting themselves.
The left cannot stand on its own without having total control of the messaging the public is being fed. Once again - normal people don't come to the ideological conclusions that the left has tried to propagandize everyone into having. They are indoctrinated into all the crazy shit (the trans stuff, the hating your own race stuff, the hating your own country stuff, etc). Thus, they need Musk/X to fail. They're entire existence depends on having the control that he (and others) are taking away.
Maybe they can make their own platforms