Democrats aren’t the only ones in need of soul-searching after November 5. A big-box media apparatus that endlessly told Americans Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump posed a dire threat to democracy only to see him win the Electoral College vote in a rout and capture the popular vote outright is struggling to cope with its transparent irrelevance in the outcome of what it deemed “the most important election ever.”
Dark days are on the horizon at two of the most notorious cable TV news Trump bashers. CNN staffers are “very sad and deeply frustrated” as massive layoffs loom for a network that has seen its ratings crater, one employee told Fox News. The cuts will be made “by March” and will be “very meaningful,” the source told the network.
Puck’s Dylan Byers says the layoffs “will impact hundreds of employees across the organization,” with “on-air talent” “likely to be affected.”
Media Maelstrom
How bad are things at CNN? It was beaten out by leftist rival MSNBC on Election Night, the same MSNBC that has seen its ratings collapse to such an extent that parent company Comcast is looking to sell it off.
CNN averaged “just 5.1 million primetime viewers, and was bested by its liberal rival MSNBC for the first time ever with six million viewers. Fox News Channel trounced both of them with over ten million viewers,” Fox gleefully related. […]
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