Thread by @ggreenwald

It's hard to overstate how severely the audience for MSNBC has collapsed with Trump gone. For the key demographic of 25-54, they barely can get 150,000 to watch even their prime time shows (outside of Maddow). More people watch a YouTube show.

adweek.com/tvnewser/thurs…

CNN's problems are a little different but just as bad. For their prime-time shows, they can barely get 1 million people *total* to watch, including all the old people who make up the vast bulk of cable news watchers for the two liberal networks. Look at this:

Liberal media outlets were dying before Trump came along. He was like some artificial 5-year sugar high that saved all their jobs. But now that he's gone, they're doing as badly as digital liberal media, with *zero* self-critique or attempt to figure out why.

By comparison, the YouTube show Rising with @krystalball & @esaagar gets roughly 1 million viewers a day -- almost all in the young demographic. Why? Because they debate, air dissent, aren't enslaved to DNC/liberal orthodoxies. So with a tiny fraction of the budget, people watch.

Let me show you how liberal media functions to see why it's failing. Yesterday, we published at my Substack platform an article by a veteran freelance reporter that questioned whether "reformist" prosecutors have caused a big increase in violent crime.

outsidevoices.substack.com/p/mounting-vio…

The article was one of the few we put behind a paywall, for subscribers only. Nonetheless -- based solely on the headline -- liberal journalists rose up to condemn an article they hadn't read. Why? Because they think journalism should propagnadize for liberalism and hide dissent.

I made clear in the tweets I posted and in the editor's note accompanying the freelance article that I didn't agree with many of those views, but believe the role of journalism is to give readers all information & views so *they* can assess.

Liberal writers think that's a crime.

That's why liberal media sectors are failing, and will all consolidate in NYT & WPost. The belief of standard liberal newsrooms is their core role is to propagandize for US liberalism & DNC: no dissent, no reporting against it, etc. They all sound alike, so nobody reads/watches.

The freelance article we published Sunday by veteran reporter Ralph Cipriano -- "Mounting Violence Casts Doubt Over the Project of Progressive 'Reform' Prosecutors," a critique of Larry Krasner's record as Philadelphia DA -- is now freely available here:

outsidevoices.substack.com/p/mounting-vio…

A critique of that article by @BenSpielberg -- "With Larry Krasner Facing Re-Election Tomorrow, Don't Fall For Bad Faith Attacks on Reform Prosecutors" -- is here, with a short response from Cipriano. Airing debates like these is important for journalism:

outsidevoices.substack.com/p/with-larry-k…