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Who can forget the March day that will live in cable news infamy, when Beck invited embattled Democratic Congressman Eric Massa onto his show, for an entire hour, to blow the whistle on Democratic Party corruption? Or so Beck thought. Instead, Massa went on and on about tickle fights, and Beck became a laughing stock -- the butt of endless Geraldo-opens-Al-Capone's-vault jokes.
Prior to the Massa Moment, Glenn Beck was averaging 2.6 million viewers each week, and the show was still flying high. And in the short term, the wildly hyped Massa episode produced ratings gold, generating 3.4 million viewers that night, thank you very much. Long-term though, the effects have proven to be disastrous.
As I noted two weeks ago, Glenn Beck's ratings are down this spring. Now it's clear those declines Meddfaccelerating and there are no signs of a rebound. So what does that mean for Beck, Fox News, and the Tea Party movement? MediaMatters
Wow. Sounds bad for good old Glenn Beck. Right ? What could possibly be said to make these words sound "ok" ? We admit that the basic numbers are correct. Yes. Midknight Review admits to this. But what is missing? Well, maybe a few questions about the other news programs. . . . . . THATS what's missing. The losers at Think Progress and Media Matters fully support Keith Olbermann and that moron is down . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . wait for it . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28% since this same time last year. Glenn is down 30% since January BUT only 4% since this time last April. Campell Brown over at CNN ? Never heard of her !!?? Well, she is down 39% since a year ago, April. Hannity is down 17% and Rachel Maddow, who has no audience anyway, is down 8 % over the course of the past year.
Look, if we measured high tide and , two hours later, started crying because low tide was so much lower than high tide -- well, if we did that , we would be nuts. Apples for apples, dude !!! Glenn is down since January. Ok. Fine ! So how is he doing versus a year ago? Down a little but not bad. How is he doing compared to the competition? Actually better than most and considerably better than the folks at the Liberal Land Networks, MSNBC and CNN. You can check out our numbers at Media-ite .
While a lot of big name advertisers have refused to air advertisement on Beck's show, it is not because they do not want to. Not at all. It is because Media Matters has helped to organize a massive boycott of, primarily, SEIU union folks, 2.4 million strong but influencing some 12 million folks when you count family and friends. THAT'S why there is a boycott. The advertisers have been threatened by union thugs . Hey !! They don't want trouble, so they stay away from Beck. That's how that works. But Beck's show makes money and his commercial breaks are actually twice as long, time slot for time slot, than the competition at the same time of day. Understand that CNN is in serious financial trouble -- no advertisers !!! And MSNBC does not do news late at night and over the weekends beginning with Friday nights. Its just a parttime news channel. Don't forget that the liberal Air America went broke and never ran a profit. No profit for Al Gore's CURRENT TV, either.
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