TV news ratings, online readership plunge during Biden's first 100 days

[left-of-center2012]

Broadcast and cable news ratings, along with website traffic, are all taking a hit in the post-Trump era. During President Biden’s first 100 days in office, weekly full-day cable ratings for CNN and MSNBC have been trending down, according to statistics from ratings company Nielsen.

On average, 1.3 million household viewers were watching MSNBC in the last week of January, shortly after Biden took office. For the week ending April 25, that number was 868,000. At CNN, those figures went from 1.2 million to 749,000. Network evening news isn’t faring any better. Ratings leader “World News Tonight” at ABC had 1.8 million fewer viewers in the seven days ending April 25 compared to the last week of January. NBC’s “Nightly News,” in the No. 2 slot, lost 1.7 million viewers in that same period, while CBS is down 1.2 million.

Traffic is also down for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, the Los Angeles Times, Reuters, the Boston Globe, Vice, Vox and BuzzFeed. Some of those sites had more traffic in March than in February, but all are down since the start of the year.

Media experts like Scott Robson, a research analyst with S&P Global Market Intelligence who studies cable news said the recent decline might suggest that
“people are relieved they don’t have to check the news every night to see what the latest crisis is.”

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/551210-tv-news-ratings-online-readership-plunge-during-bidens-first-100-days

[FalloutShelter]

1. My time is way down...

SO Thankful I don't have to spend my days doom scrolling.

[YDogg]

2. I know I don't obsessively check the news every 30 mins

It's kind of nice.

[left-of-center2012]

3. I used to wake up every morning thinking "What has Trump done now?"

Now I wake up thinking "What do I want for breakfast?"

[a kennedy]

8. I know, it WAS SOMETHING EVERY DAMN DAY WITH THE ORANGE PIECE OF SHIT.

[greenjar_01]

4. GOOD!

[GemDigger]

5. Yea, we don't wake up in the morning

wondering if he started a war, sexted with vlad, racist comments etc.

We aren't worrying nearly as much as we were for 4 years and when we do it isn't because of the President.

[mucifer]

6. I still have a news addiction

[spanone]

7. The results of having a sane man in the white house.

[Ilsa]

9. I bet people are taking lower doses of

antihypertensive drugs, and possibly fewer drugs for anxiety.

[FlyingPiggy]

10. As it should. The news should not be so central to our lives.

It was obscene and thoroughly exhausting the amount of gaslighting we had to endure. Pretty sure the whole country was going to go completely mental had the former one won again. I am extremely thankful for this period of peace and normalcy.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

12. Same here!

It was like worrying about a toddler, and hoping that the guardians were keeping the most destructive materials away before it caused even more harm to everyone.

[FlyingPiggy]

15. yes! I felt like democracy was hanging on by a thread and I was scared to death that

at any moment, we were going to see it collapse. It was awful. One of the things I am reveling in right now is knowing that there is a semblance of law and order and that appropriate people have been put back into place to ensure that democracy lives another day. But it still worries me to see so much of the force that is working hard to try and push authoritarianism in our country. It's very much alive and a threat. We still have much work to do, but this little reprieve is much needed and much appreciated that's for sure.

[Wounded Bear]

11. People are going back to work...nt

[Midnight Writer]

13. I once read that the way you know you are living with someone with a personality disorder

is that it is exhausting.

It is one drama after another and another and it never ends.

Trump and his personality disorder have moved out of our House and it is a relief to be able to relax a bit.

[Peppertoo]

14. This is to be expected

Boring is good.

[boston bean]

16. I stopped because I needed to stop fretting over covid.