Jen Psaki is a ratings disaster for MSNBC.
The Psaki bomb has turned into a major Psaki dud for left-leaning MSNBC.
The embattled cable news network -- which is expected to be spun off by parent company Comcast later this year -- has seen ratings plunge nearly 50% in the pivotal 9 p.m. slot since Jen Psaki took over full-time hosting duties from Rachel Maddow last month.
The 46-year-old anchor, who made a name for herself with her quick-witted "Psaki bombs" while serving as former President Joe Biden's press secretary -- but has since insisted she never saw signs of his mental decline -- has drawn an average of 971,000 viewers since "The Briefing with Jen Psaki" debuted on May 6 through May 28, according to the latest Nielsen ratings.
That's a staggering 47% falloff from the eyeballs attracted by Maddow and Alex Wagner in the timeslot.
The drop-off is even more pronounced in the critical 25--54 age demographic prized by advertisers, where she drew just 78,000 viewers -- a 52% decline compared to the 161,000 that Maddow and Wagner drew during their shows this year.
Joy Reid was fired by MSNBC earlier this year due to her own plummeting ratings.
The Race Lady now says that MSNBC fired her because... Can you guess?
This is too dumb to even write, but she says MSNBC fired her because they wanted to appeal to Trump and were afraid that Reid was getting too close to taking Trump down.
Ex-MSNBC host Joy Reid spoke out about her show being canceled on Monday, speculating that her race and network "anxiety" surrounding President Donald Trump played a role in her ultimately being fired from the liberal network.
"I try not to speculate too much publicly because, again, I can't get inside the minds of other people. But I can tell you what other people have speculated about... There are lots of people at the network who are critical of Donald Trump. I mean, and they're still critical of him, I'm assuming, you know. So I don't think that's [it], but I do know there is a lot of anxiety both there and, I think, in every media. We're seeing it at CBS," she said, referring to Trump's lawsuit against the network over a "60 Minutes" interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris.
Reid spoke with Katie Couric in a video posted on her Substack page and on her YouTube channel. Reid's MSNBC show was canceled earlier this year.
"We're seeing it at ABC, where allegedly 'The View' hosts were told not to go so hard on Trump. There's a push for people to, hey, do less Trump. Do more entertainment. Don't be hard on him," the former MSNBC host said, noting reporting that ABC's "The View" hosts were told to tone down their political discussions.
Oh, and she insists that Trump really, really thinks about her all the time, Because Racism.
Couric pointed out that there was no difference between Reid and liberal hosts Nicolle Wallace or Rachel Maddow, to which Reid responded, "only in one way was I different. I'm a Black woman doing the thing."
"I think that there is a difference for Trump in hearing the kinds of criticisms specifically out of a Black woman, it bothers him in a way it doesn't bother him like anything else. He's got this sort of tick about race, you know, and about, sort of criticism coming specifically from a Black woman because we've seen him lay out and dish out real abuse against Black women journalists," Reid said during her conversation with Couric.
The sad! thing for MSNBC is that the group of DEI zeroes (including former RNC chairman Michael Steel) they put together to replace the overtly racist Joy Reid are doing even worse in the ratings than she did.
At 7 pm, "The Weeknight" was down 36 percent compared to Joy Reid's 1.2 million average last year.
On to CNN.
CNN already had bad ratings, but now the Coddled Antifa Viewers who rely on CNN to cover them in Bubble-Wrap and protect them from all information that might trigger them are abandoning them.
CNN, a far-left propaganda outlet that spreads disinformation and promotes violence against Jews, hit an astonishing ratings low during the week of May 26 to June 1.
CNNLOL averaged only 374,000 primetime viewers, which is six times -- six times -- lower than the Fox News Channel average of 2.3 million primetime viewers.
John Nolte points out that Fox News, a cable station, is beating all of the broadcast networks:
Fox News topped all three broadcast networks during the week of May 26-30. NBC and CBS averaged only 2.4 million average primetime viewers, while CBS earned just 2.3 million. Fox News grabbed 2.7 million.
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CNN cannot survive much longer in its present form. As people move from cable to streaming, CNN is losing billions in the left-wing affirmative action called "carriage fees," and CNN's advertising revenue must be dismal. If the Trump administration outlaws Big Pharma ads, that might be the silver bullet.