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Do you all think it's

artappraiser — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 04:53:35 +0000

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Do you all think it's possible Joe Rogan will be more influential than cable news in the future? It sounds preposterous, but people once said that the Internet couldn't compete with newspapers and we know how that turned out. pic.twitter.com/R1yt5xLThv
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) January 4, 2022

Chris Wallace's big surprise

artappraiser — Sun, 12 Dec 2021 20:04:55 +0000

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Chris Wallace's big surprise at the end of today's @FoxNewsSunday: He's leaving, effective immediately. pic.twitter.com/S1ON6JkTXx
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) December 12, 2021

Here's our @reliablesources discussion about Chris Wallace's Sunday morning surprise exit from Fox pic.twitter.com/GGrerIiClK
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) December 12, 2021

We’re thrilled to welcome Chris Wallace to CNN as an anchor for @CNNPlus. His new weekday show will feature interviews with newsmakers across politics, business, sports and culture & will contribute to CNN+’s slate of live programming available at launch. https://t.co/6dgFzBd2QT pic.twitter.com/h8djkxClsB
— CNN Communications (@CNNPR) December 12, 2021

A lot of people in that age

Orion — Sun, 05 Dec 2021 00:26:44 +0000

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A lot of people in that age range seem to think the whole world is having the arguments that are going viral on cable news.

Cable news is much different from a site like this one, where people sure do disagree but it isn't a nonstop argument. I once watched Tucker Carlson and watched the guy literally say, "Okay, I'm mad now" and literally start screaming until the guest left. Cable news is hell.

important to note the size of

artappraiser — Sat, 04 Dec 2021 19:45:41 +0000

In reply to Jack Shafer: "Time to Pull the Plug on Cable News"

important to note the size of the audience as well:

Why all this attention when cable news barely matters to most Americans? The average audience commanded by Maddow and Cooper and Hannity and all the others slithering down your cable cord is so tiny you can almost get away with calling cable news a niche media. According to October numbers from TV Newser, the three major cable networks attract an average audience of only 4.2 million viewers during primetime, which is when viewing peaks. In a nation of 330 million, that’s just a little over 1 percent of the population. Meanwhile, the three nightly news broadcasts together can reliably pull in 21.5 million viewers a night. The cable numbers pale even more when you analyze individual networks ratings. Cuomo’s erstwhile channel, CNN, drew, according to TV Newser, an average of about 700,000 viewers during primetime in one October week, which is about equal in size to the population of El Paso. Or compare the cable news audience to that of country music (31 million listeners daily) or Netflix (74 million subscribers) to gain another perspective. If country music vanished in a rapture, you’d have to deal with some pretty ornery people. But if cable news disappeared tomorrow, who would notice?