http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5962153Oh my.
krawhitham (1000+ posts) Tue Jun-30-09 07:15 PM
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Rachel Maddow's Audience Down Nearly 55%
http://tvbythenumbers.com/2009/06/30/msnbcs-rachel-madd...
MSNBC’s 9pm Rachel Maddow Show has seen its adults 25-54 audience, the demo that cable news advertisers target, fall by nearly 55% from Q4 2008 through Q2 2009.
after which a downward-winding chart
jefferson_dem (1000+ posts) Tue Jun-30-09 07:16 PM
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1. Ouch.
That's not promising.
JamesA1102 (917 posts) Wed Jul-01-09 09:18 AM
Response to Reply #1
133. That's cause she forgot who her audience is.
If people want to see the President bashed every night, they'll turn on FAUX.
Well, that starts it off, and as it's a really enormous bonfire, from here on out I'll quote just the Primitives of Prominence.
The shadowy primitive:
shadowknows69 (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-01-09 09:36 AM
Response to Reply #133
139. Oh ****ing please. Rachel is one of the more thorough journalists on TV
Sorry if she keeps bringing up inconvenient truths about our President. I think her numbers speak more about her audience than her ability. People don't like hearing bad things about their side and you just proved it with your post.
The mountain man primitive, being sure Pa Kettle in the White House doesn't mess with his social security retirement check:
ThomWV (1000+ posts) Tue Jun-30-09 07:17 PM
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2. She is the only one I watch regularly and the only one I trust to be honest with her viewers
The Joanne98 primitive, the primitive who wears double-wide thong underwear:
Joanne98 (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-01-09 09:16 AM
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130. That's because businesses play FOX on their TV's. It's FORCED viewing.
The high-fructose corn syrup primitive:
HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Tue Jun-30-09 07:18 PM
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5. I've stopped watching.
And I'm the only viewer that I care about.
ThomWV (1000+ posts) Tue Jun-30-09 07:27 PM
Response to Reply #5
14. Any particular reason or it just sort of work out that way?
As it is light later in the evening we find ourselves outside later and eating later so that means some missed Rachael, but its not because we have tired of her or anything like that.
HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Tue Jun-30-09 07:29 PM
Response to Reply #14
18. Any particular reason?
Just her being a stupid sack of shit.
HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-01-09 11:59 AM
Response to Reply #70
161. Actually, no, I don't care for vapid, dipshit cable news talking heads.
That's why I don't like Rachel Maddow.
Don't even get me started on her viewers.
ThomWV (1000+ posts) Tue Jun-30-09 08:35 PM
Response to Reply #30
39. Your attitude surprises me and to be honest I find it a bit appalling
Because all you are really saying is Obama right or wrong.
The mountain man primitive's not for Pa Kettle in the White House, if Pa Kettle touches his social security retirement check.
The grouchy old primitive:
NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Tue Jun-30-09 11:58 PM
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89. I admit she lost me a few months ago
When she got all dramatic about putting a phone call into Pelosi's office about what she knew about torture under the Bush administration.
And the sources she was using to question Pelosi were scummy Republicans like Cheney.
I didn't remember her publicly talking about putting calls into any Rethugs offices before on live TV.
I thought to myself "What the **** is going on here?"
Stopped watching her.
Pedro Picasso, who needs no introduction:
Atman (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-01-09 08:55 AM
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128. I'm fatigued by the time she comes on.
Face it, after a couple of hours of Ed and KO, Rachel is just another re-hash, nothing really unique or compelling enough to make me stay and watch. I don't dislike her or her show, I just can't/don't want to devote an entire evening to hearing the same "Republicans suck!" stories repeated over and over by a revolving palette of talking heads.
Atman (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-01-09 10:27 AM
Response to Reply #146
154. I pretty much agree with your viewing priorities.
Part of what is appealing about Rachel's show is that she isn't just a cheerleader. We had eight years of the media telling us everything was okay, that George knew what he was doing and was a good, decent man, when everyone knew it simply wasn't true. If I agreed with every story Rachel did I'd have to start wondering why and start looking for something else to watch, because like you said, KO is fun to watch, but it's pretty much all fluff. I like Ed because he gets pissed off and actually brings some passion to this crap.
Hmmmm. Two posts in a row, and no misspellings by Pedro Picasso. Remarkable.
Joanne98 (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-01-09 09:18 AM
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132. I love her show but she needs to tweak the format. That pop culture thing at the end. stoopid.
Well, that's all the Primitives of Prominence, although there's plenty of
unterprimitiven alleging the ratings are cooked.
