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LEFT WING LOONS Title: MSNBC Viewership Surges Amid Trump Chaos In recent days, Rachel Maddow has had more in common with Bill OReilly than the average MSNBC viewer might suspect. For the first three nights of this week, Maddows 9 p.m. broadcast on MSNBC was the most-watched on cable-news in primetime a position that had long been enjoyed by the 8 p.m. hour in the Fox News schedule, where OReilly had a roost for more than two decades,and where Tucker Carlson now holds court. Maddows recent gains are part of a viewership surge at the NBCUniversal-owned network that comes as a chaotic White House has driven viewers to MSNBC in ways the executives really havent seen since the days of Keith Olbermann. Last week, MSNBCs primetime schedule was tops in the demographic most coveted by advertisers people between 25 and 54 for the first time since the week of December 29, 2008. MSNBCs Maddow, The Last Word and 11th Hour are all leading in that viewership category for the month to date, according to data from Nielsen. Related rachel-maddow-msnbc As MSNBC Makes Shifts, Rachel Maddow Presses On MSNBCs ratings surge is entirely due to the ongoing crisis of fake news the more that news designed to deceive plays a role in politics and our lives, the more people hunger for news they can trust and which is demonstrably true, said Paul Levinson, a professor of media studies at Fordham University. The onslaught of news surrounding President Trump a Washington Post report that he may have shared classified information with Russian visitors and a New York Times scoop that he had asked former FBI Director Comey to end an investigation into former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn has rallied viewers to MSNBC and Time Warners CNN. But in recent nights, those stories have not inspired the same rabid interest in viewers of Fox News Channel. For the month through May 16, Fox News total schedule has attracted more viewers overall and in the demo than MSNBC or CNN. On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, however, the network came in third in primetime among viewers between 25 and 54. CNN often thrives in periods of breaking-news. Its viewership surges when a national crisis unfolds. MSNBC has for the past few years placed more of an emphasis on breaking news during its daytime schedule, while maintaining its progressive-themed primetime lineup. The question: is MSNBC gaining a new reputation as a place for breaking news, or are liberal viewers motivated to watch more closely while conservatives are not? Maddow has been leading the charge. In April, her Rachel Maddow Show was the most-watched cable-news program in the demo. Overall viewership of her program grew 98% last month while her 25-to-54 audience surged 89%. Her program, which launched on MSNBC in 2008, is currently the fastest growing primetime show in cable news nearly a decade into its tenure on the air. Poster Comment: Who can bear to look at him let alone listen to it blabber the faked news. Madcow is just a lesbian echo chamber for the losers to go. Its their safe place. Conservatives such as myself understand these things as Fox was our hangout the past 8 years. Its okay. We understand your need. She is over the top, inaccurate at times apologizing many times for misinformation, and a flaming Liberal opposed to practically anything conservative; but half the country is brain dead when it comes to issues and listen like department store dummies programed to clap at anything they hear without checking the facts. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top Page Up Full Thread Page Down Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 3.
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Ah. So Maddow regained all the viewers she lost after that "Big Reveal" of Trump's tax returns? Stupid liberals clinging to anyone who can make them feel better about their humiliating loss last November. Overturn New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964) and the liberal MSM would be out of business in a year. All they have are lies from anonymous sources.
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