The Associated Press reported, "Outlets hurt by dwindling public interest in news in 2021."


Given that AP's customers are the news media which pays for AP's services, one can hardly expect objectivity when AP reports on the media.
The data in this report are grim. In the last 12 months, the Washington Post's online traffic is down 44%. The New York Times is down 34%.

Prime-time viewership is down 38% at CNN, 34% at Fox, and 25% at MSNBC.

Nightly news viewership is down 14% at NBC, and down 12% at both ABC and CBS.

AP spun this as an off-year.

It began its story, "The presidential election, pandemic and racial reckoning were stories that drove intense interest and engagement to news outlets in 2020. To a large degree, 2021 represented the inevitable hangover."

The spin was both laughable and a symptom of the disease that is laying the media low.

"Racial reckoning"???

Really?

They were riots.

Oh, the media called the riots "mostly peaceful protests," which is why people tune the media out.


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Then there is the vaccine. I have been vaccinated twice and likely will get a booster next month.

But, man, did the media oversell the vaccine.

In a March 29 broadcast, Rachel Maddow said, "Now we know that the vaccines work well enough that the virus stops with every vaccinated person… The virus does not infect them…It cannot use a vaccinated person as a host to get more people."

She is the reason I don't call PhD's doctor.

It is not that the public is no longer interested in the news. It is that the public no longer believes the news media is delivering the news.

https://donsurber.blogspot.com/2021/12/2...-lies.html

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