MSNBC just falsely declared that voting rights legislation is “all but dead.” These fucking liars just make shit up to scare you into staying tuned in so they can hit their ratings marks. If you want to know what’s going on, start by turning that fictional bullshit off.
Now MSNBC is hyping the “rise of DeSantis.” Again, a fictional narrative. Back in the real world, DeSantis is unpopular enough he’s at serious risk of losing reelection in 2022. But because he’s scary and thus good for ratings, they’re falsely hyping him for 2024. It’s fiction.
There’s just no way you can square being a regular MSNBC (or CNN) viewer with being knowledgeable, savvy, or in any sort of position to fight and win political battles. These networks have always been hyperbolic in the pursuit of ratings. But these days they’re literally fiction.
The sad reality is that Fox News won. Its business model – finding whatever fictional narratives will keep the target audience’s blood pumping and thus keep them tuned in – has proven to be so profitable, the other two networks are now increasingly using the same business model.
The only difference is in the target audience and thus the psychology. Fox targets right wingers by telling them every other demographic is out to get them but they’re going to win anyway, because that’s what keeps them tuned in…
…while MSNBC and CNN target liberals and moderates by yelling them that all hope is lost and the right wingers are going to win no matter what, because that’s what keeps liberals and moderates tuned in. Speaks to the psychology of each group. But it’s how they each get ratings.
This is nothing new. MSNBC and CNN spent every single day of the 2016 election lying to you, by hyping a supposed Hillary email scandal for ratings when they knew it wasn’t even real. But in 2021 and now 2022, they’ve gotten much worse. It’s not just lies, it’s TOTAL DOOM.
The hurt and anguish you hear in the voices of these MSNBC hosts these days when they’re telling you you’re doomed, sounds like the tone of voice you’d have heard from a newscaster on 9/11 or something. Except it’s not real, because they know we’re not “doomed.” It’s all an act.
It’s one thing for an MSNBC host to focus on bullshit to drive ratings. It’s another for an MSNBC host to put on an acting school level display of feigned anguish in order to sell a bullshit ratings-driven narrative. That’s literally Fox News stuff.
The bizarre part is that even as MSNBC and CNN have spent the past year pushing doomsday hysteria, their ratings have ranked. It’s dishonest and unprofitable. Yet they keep doubling down on it. Why not just try portraying the day’s news honestly, and be constructive about it?
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