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MadameButterfly

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11. They are losing viewers because we are depressed
Sun Dec 29, 2024, 10:04 AM
Dec 29

and it's hard to watch what is going on. Plus, viewership always falls off for some time after a presidential election. MSNBC was panicking over lost ratings right after Obama got elected. That recovered, of course.

Most of us are having to change our media intake to just survive the next 4 years. The problem is, where do we get our information if we desert the most liberal news network? We need strategies to keep them alive, not take them down.

Please explain to me how Rachel Maddow or Chris Hayes, or the any of the evening anchors, could be more progressive than they are. I don't even think Bernie Sanders could be more left than Rachel and Chris these days. Is he left enough for you? What would it take? I'm just hoping they survive the Trump presidency without going to jail.

What needs to change is the conservative ownership. The anchors who have had to walk the tightrope between their viewership and their conservative owners have a harder job then ever. A demoralized viewership that just want's a break, and a fascist government that wants to silence the the whole network. But we are going to trash them because they aren't left enough? With friends like these....

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