MAGA-Coded CBS Anchor’s Historic Ratings Disaster Exposed | New ratings data demonstrates that the network’s evening news program is struggling to keep viewers.

Agree with you 100% These two used to be the two best news programs available. My last straw was when she refused to air the story about CECOT. Can't watch what I don't trust.

I can't do the CBS nightly news, Saturday Morning or 60 minutes anymore. Sunday Morning is still fantastic. I'll keep watching as I have for decades until they mess with it too.

I had watched CBS Sunday Morning for years. I now haven't watched it for a couple of months. I watched the Evening news. Until they took off John Dickerson and Maurice Dubois. I miss Steve Hartman.

Indeed. It's a dual edged sword. Take over CBS, use its journalistic integrity to push MAGA nonsense. Also to eliminate a source of actual reporting on this administrations insanity. No no, can't report on that, that's biased. They can either keep it around now to do the above, try to give some credibility to MAGA viewpoints (while funneling money to it to do so) or close it down, oh so sad nobody trusts the media despite our best attempts. And then, gone is another source of independent journalism.

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The mierdas touch

She doesn’t exactly have a history of showing profits at her business ventures. It’s been highly profitable for her personally, which is all anyone seems to care about.

Correct. She’s there to neuter CBS and has done so.

At least Jerry was just trashy. MAGA is hateful and stupidity incarnate

Ironically, MAGA would probably not like Jerry Springer's politics

MAGA really wants Morton Downey Jr.

MAGA doesn't want Springer, MAGA wants a fun house mirror that makes them look beautiful and loved.

Facts get in the way of their fiction

Yeah, they aren't watching the "news". They're watching the 8 PM talk shows or listening to MAGA podcasts.

You're right. Current state is they just miss all the stories. No idea what's happening.

Time and time again we see that the conservative market is fairly small. We see this time and time again, with movies, shows, music, news, that despite how vocal conservatives are, they are a niche market. And especially with news (Fox, AON, Newsmax) that market is covered. So when you see CBS or CNN try to pivot to appeal to the conservative demo, they don't gain an audience, they just lose their viewers. Target tried to appeal to conservatives and they have struggled ever since. Daily Wire created a conservative movie studio and have never had a hit. All of these "conservative" answers to the mainstream flop every time.

The sad fact is, MAGA doesn't need CBS News either. It can be a right-wing propaganda network, or it can die. Either of those options suit their interests just fine.

Replace the entire CBS Evening News with longform Meanwhile. I’d tune in

Probably just a shallow opening of the jaw for that one.

Agreed. I’m one of the older generation and I don’t know anyone who watches the evening news. I’m guessing the death spiral will accelerate.

CNN is getting pretty dicey and I wouldn't trust it any more...not that I had a ton of trust in it to begin with. Best news today comes from NPR. Low bias, high accuracy. 10/10.

CNN is about to be basically the equivalent of a secret Fox News, now that David Ellison owns it.

>But it can always come back.  Narrator's Voice: No, it cannot Broadcast network news has been on a slide down for years as competition from other media sources has taken over. Over the air and cable viewership are down. The broadcast media that we all grew up with, for better or worse, will not come back. This is because no company will be willing to invest a lot of money into bringing it back because they see the writing on the wall. Paramount and Ellison have zero interest in saving their news franchise. Could someone buy CBS News for a fraction of its current value and attempt to revitalize it? Yes. Would it work? No. News organizations have only one true asset: reputation. And CBS has squandered theirs. Nobody would be willing to buy it (if Paramount were even to consider selling) and then sink more money into it in the hopes to grow the business in a market segment that is shrinking. It just won't happen.

This has always been the plan. To destroy and credibility the media has, but there in no coming back. They want the news people get to be whatever AI c*** that comes out of the Whitehouse. Keep the populace dumb, it's good for business.

Independent journalism won't disappear, it'll just disappear from television 

We already have one fewer actual news source under the current leadership. Of course it's deliberate. The Associated Press is the last real news source we have.

Just steal money from somewhere else when you need to. As long as the propaganda flows. I’m actually really impressed how the right continues to do stuff like this, get away with it, and how well it’s working.

Billionaires always care about losing money. At some point even Ellison is going to get tired of it, or else he’ll be forced to sell the empire for pieces. 

Exactly. People keep looking at old playbooks to deal with this c*** and I don’t think people understand the situation we’re actually in right now.

There's not a whole lot of places to go aside from the internet, which they also control most of. Eventually if every source of news and discussion is dominated by far right billionaires then you'll just be quietly upset and not really know what's going on anymore.

Tell him his ratings suck because he has alienated the real regular people in this country.