report: Americans are exhausted by political news. TV ratings and a new AP-NORC poll show they’re tuning out
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What's real: Weeks after USA election, MSNBC & CNN are still down 50%.
After election night through Dec. 13, the prime-time viewership of MSNBC was an average of 620,000, down 54% from the pre-election audience this year, the Nielsen company said. For the same time comparison, CNN’s average of 405,000 viewers was down 45%.
But people are not "exhausted by political news".
Fox is up. & "alternative media", Twitter/X & independents, are way up.
Fox has LOST many of its older viewers to independent media - even as Fox picks up new viewers who flee CNN & MSNBC.
At Fox...the post-election average of 2.68 million viewers is up 13%, Nielsen said. Since the election, 72% of the people watching one of those three cable networks in the evening were watching Fox News, compared to 53% prior to election day.
Remember, Associated Press is also part of "Fake News" system which suffers.
AP wants to say "Oh, it's not any of us, it's our audience being lazy & tired" - rather than truth.
Truth is: Fake News system - AP, MSBNC, CNN, ABC, CBS, NYT, BBC. NPR, WaPo - has lied, for years. & people are sick of it