This is a bloodbath and I need to bathe.
Lester Holt, who NBC claims is a "Republican" despite being yet another aggressively mediocre liberal, is stepping away from the anchor desk to go back to
hosting Dateline.
Lester Holt is stepping down as anchor of NBC News' "Nightly News" after a decade. He announced the move in a memo to staff, revealing plans to take on an expanded anchor role at NBC's crime news drama show, "Dateline." Holt will continue anchoring "Nightly News" until the summer, and NBC News has not yet named his replacement.
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Holt will transition to a full-time anchor role at "Dateline," where he plans to expand his influence and craft in-depth segments on topics he is passionate about.
Is that what this is about, his "passion"?
That's one theory. Here's another one: All of these media companies see a huge decline in their ratings and are offering their "talent" deep pay cuts if they want to keep their jobs.
John Sexton has more on the Night of Long Axes at MSNBC.
From the New York Post: Racist MSNBC actually is getting rid of all their minority hosts.
Or, at least, getting rid of their shows while keeping them in diminished roles.
MSNBC's new president continued to shake up the embattled network Monday -- canceling shows hosted by left-wing anchors Ayman Mohyeldin, Katie Phang and Jonathan Capehart, The Post has learned.
The overhaul follows the ouster of rabid anti-Trump anchor Joy Reid after reports surfaced Sunday that the Comcast-owned network is canceling her show, "The ReidOut."
On Monday, an MSNBC insider told The Post that staff working for Capehart and Phang were informed that their weekend shows will be canceled.
The source spoke shortly after The Guardian reported that Mohyeldin's program will be taken off the air. His show "Ayman Mohyeldin Reports," which airs on the weekends at 7 p.m., will broadcast its final episode on April 20, according to the UK paper.
An MSNBC spokesperson confirmed the shakeup when contacted by The Post.
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Mohyeldin, Capehart and Phang will remain at the network, with the two men hosting shows in new time slots, the rep said.
From a previous Sexton report: Joy Reid lost 47% of her ratings since Trump won the election. I can't imagine she was highly rated before the election, either.
"The ReidOut" has shed 47% of its total audience, averaging just 759,000 viewers after averaging 1.4 million viewers throughout 2024 leading up to Election Day, according to Nielsen Media Research.
Reid lost even more viewers among the advertiser-coveted demographic ages 25-54, losing a whopping 52% of them, now averaging only 76,000 key demo viewers.
Clay Travis mocks Reid and other liberal #Resistance propagandists:
Clay Travis
@ClayTravis
The most remarkable thing about people like Joy Reid, Don Lemon and Jim Acosta is they have been paid millions of dollars for years to talk on TV and yet they have developed no actual fan base. The minute they leave TV, their careers are over. Do you know how hard this to do?
You are gifted an incredible opportunity to enter people's homes and talk to them directly for YEARS EVERY NIGHT. Yet the moment you aren't on TV, your audience vanishes. That means none of your "audience" actually likes you. It's all just platform/network based.
This is fascinating to me because the Internet arena is the exact opposite -- your audience is directly connected to you because the audience has an infinite array of choices and picked you. It's far more competitive & authentic online so the connection is much deeper.
I'm not sure how many people realize this, but Don Lemon's career is a perfect example. He went from a show competing with two other networks every night to competing with the entire Internet. No one followed him online. His career is essentially over.
It's way harder to win online, but when you do, you have a career for life. Your audience will follow you anywhere. Because you are the platform. Anyway, I still don't think most realize this. Joy Reid will soon. Her career is over.