Friday, March 28, 2014

Almost nobody watches cable TV news


Full disclosure: I stopped watching TV in 2009. Lots of reasons, including the insanely biased, hyped and superficial news coverage of the political scene, especially the trash, tripe and tasteless stuff offered by the cable news talking heads.


Now I see that the Pew Research Center says the prime time audience for the three big cable news channels—Fox, MSNBC and CNN—is only about 3 million people, and the daytime audience is only about 2 million.

Wowee. Roughly speaking, 99% of American adults don’t watch those cable channels.


More or less, almost nobody is paying attention to Rachel, and Joe, and Al, and Charles, and Bill, and Megyn, and Gretchen….





There are about 242 million adults in the United States. As a very rough approximation, only 1 per cent of adults are watching any of the three channels at any particular time.





For most of us, the grotesque power, pride and prejudice of cable TV news is only hearsay.

I’ve stopped listening.









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