Why the "Border crisis" is getting so much coverage

[tenderfoot]

CNN "has lost 45 percent of its prime-time audience in the past five weeks", MSNBC down 26%, Fox News "has essentially regained its leading position by standing still"

Trump predicted news ratings would ‘tank if I’m not there.’ He wasn’t wrong.

Of all Donald Trump’s prophecies and predictions — that Mexico would pay for a border wall, that the coronavirus would spontaneously disappear, that he would be easily reelected — at least one wasn’t entirely wrong.

“Newspapers, television, all forms of media will tank if I’m not there,” he augured in 2017, “because without me, their ratings are going down the tubes.”

Barely two months into the post-Trump era, news outlets are indeed losing much of the audience and readership they gained during his chaotic presidency. In other words, journalism’s Trump bump may be giving way to a slump.

After a record-setting January, traffic to the nation’s most popular mainstream news sites, including The Washington Post, plummeted in February, according to the audience tracking firm ComScore. The top sites were also generally doing worse than in February of last year, when the pandemic became a major international news story.

The Post, for example, saw the number of unique visitors fall 26 percent from January to February, and 7 percent from a year ago. The New York Times lost 17 percent compared with January and 16 percent over last February.

The story is largely the same for cable and broadcast news. Audiences grew during the pandemic last spring and summer, remained high in the fall as Trump tried to fight his electoral defeat with false claims of voter fraud, and swelled in the first few weeks of 2021 when a mob attacked the Capitol and Trump became the first president in history to be impeached and acquitted twice.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/media-trump-bump-slump/2021/03/22/5f13549a-85d1-11eb-bfdf-4d36dab83a6d_story.html

Time for the NYT, WaPo and the networks to commit some arson for stories!

[Bev54]

1. I am so happy to see them calling out cable news on their bullshit

[louis-t]

2. Watching cable news was self-defense in the dump years.

We had to see what fresh Hell awaited us every day.

[kacekwl]

3. Shows how lazy these "news" organizations are.

There are many real stories out there but instead of doing the work they prefer to grab low hanging fruit. Do your job and your ratings $$$$$$ may come back.

[TigressDem]

4. Because FAKE news is showing "kids in cages" claiming it's happening NOW.

Biden is working with the system he inherited.

https://www.npr.org/2021/03/18/979014713/hundreds-of-migrant-children-held-in-border-detention-for-more-than-10-days

Making changes as fast as he can


https://www.npr.org/2021/02/25/971425227/fact-check-biden-reopens-border-shelters-for-teens-but-its-not-kids-in-cages


He's sending help to Mexico and Guatemala

https://www.npr.org/2021/03/22/979989195/biden-sends-top-officials-to-mexico-to-address-migration-flowsa



NOT EVEN 100 DAYS and they expect BIDEN to FIX the immigration system that tRUMP spent 4 years ripping to shreds.

[bdamomma]

6. Ripped

and gutted.

[TigressDem]

7. I wish it were that simple.

AND if tRUMP had given BIDEN access when he was TRANSITIONING .... MAYBE some preparation could have been made in advance.

BUT HE HAD NO ACCESS before and it hasn't even been 100 DAYS

https://www.npr.org/2021/03/22/979886083/white-house-scrambles-to-deal-with-migrant-influx-at-southern-border

[bdamomma]

5. this is a pile up

on the Biden administration.

Watch and listen

https://democraticunderground.com/100215256581