Rachel Maddow Takes Pay Cut In Mainstream Media Exodus

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Can MSNBC make it through the year? Can CNN even make it through the year? Right now, Farron, you looked, I looked at to verify, our views are higher than CNN right now. They're higher in prime time. They're even higher than MSNBC. But those folks believe that they have such huge impact on the politics of this country. Take it from there. You've been a long critic of this for a long time. Go ahead.

Rachel Maddow has agreed to take a pay cut. That's how bad things are. Because MSNBC has purged, I think, what, 53% of their viewership, CNN, 47% of theirs. So they're just hemorrhaging viewers in the last month. And to be honest, something similar happened on YouTube with all of the people on the left. There were massive subscriber exoduses, I guess you would call them and then within about two weeks, everybody had gained everything back. Everything's back to normal and fine.

Not MSNBC and CNN.

But not with the corporate media. And I think there is a good reason for this. I was actually talking to my wife about this yesterday. I think what sets this apart, why these corporate media outlets are dying and not Fox, of course, because Fox's audience wants to tune in for the rabble, for the crazy. This is what we believe. But on the left here, you don't want to sit there and have these CNN hosts or MSNBC hosts lecture you. You don't care to sit there and watch them talk to the politician of the day.

They're not even journalists.

Right. Because when they're talking to the person of the day, they're not really getting news. They're getting that person's talking points about why they're good, this side's bad, blah, blah, blah. Thank you. But they're talking to each other. Now, what I do every day.

The bubble, the Democratic bubble.

Right. Well, what I do every day is I look into the camera and I'm talking to the person. Whoever it is that is watching that video, I'm talking to you, I'm having a conversation with you. When you listen to a podcast, people feel like they're part of the conversation instead of just watching two people talk about things you don't understand on tv. That's the difference. That's why YouTube has become far more popular. That's why podcasts are surging. It gives you a sense of feeling like you're a part of the conversation instead of being lectured by people who talk down to you.

Well, not only that, you're good at what you do. Okay. That's one reason they watch. Second of all, you are not committed to a baseball team. You understand this is not. Now you absolutely have nothing but awful things to say about Trump and you have for years and years, and you regularly attack Republicans, but you also attack Democrats. When the Democrat comes out with boneheaded ideas and they're so far out there, you're not afraid to do that. They will not do that on MSNBC. They won't do it on CNN. And there's another thing that I read, I thought was.

They'll attack the hell out of Bernie Sanders, though.

Yeah. Well, or course.

They'll absolutely go after that guy.

Because he's not a real Democrat. So, I read something I thought was really interesting, and it is, the American public is tired of being hustled and lied to by MSNBC and CNN. Here they talked about Biden is fine. Right. Everything's fine with Biden. Russiagate, most people don't even believe it happened now and now they're opening up to that. That Kamala is winning. Yeah? These are all lie after lie that corporate media, they turn on Rachel Maddow and she's saying all of this, and they're thinking, oh great, everything's fine. But it's all a lie and it's a lie that's being told because they pay Rachel Maddow $30 million. So she says, okay, I know that this is all nonsense, but I'm gonna say it anyway. That's one of the big factors that I read that people are reacting to. They say, I don't feel like turning into MSNBC and knowing that what they're telling me is nothing but a big hustle because corporate is telling them to say that.