The fact that the NYT, WaPost, WSJ, USA Today, NBC News and CBS News all put the H. Biden news as their leads or above big developments in a US president's trial for INSURRECTION is proof that no only is there no liberal media but that said media is hopelessly broken
And speaking of broken, I know I sound like a broken record on this point. But it is beyond clear that the capitalistic desire to not alienate the right (and to, in fact, cater to it) drives so much of this. It's less secret M*GA in MSM and more job-preserving cowardice.
That, and many of the so-called moderates in positions of power in the media really believe in 'both sides' and refuse to see the nature of the threat from Trumpism.
It's all just incredibly depressing.
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It’s been clear since for a while that TV’s evolution from linear to digital was not going smoothly. Since February, @LaneBrown and I have been digging into the story of how it all went awry, why those who make TV are so angry, and what comes next. vulture.com/2023/06/stream…
We talked to scads of writers, producers, execs and agents during our reporting, and our tale starts with some of the more striking things they told us. I could fill another story with the quotes we couldn’t fit in. Needless to say, there’s a lot of pessimism out there.
Part of our mission was to look at what Peak TV is looking like on the way down. In 2016, @writerchica and I did a deep dive into what the great Netflix boom was doing to Hollywood. Think of today’s story as a sort of sequel to this one. vulture.com/2016/05/peak-t…
Fact-check on NBC Olympics claim that the "TV-only" audience average of 10.7M viewers is more than any non-NFL primetime show.
Yes, excluding DVR replays, no entertainment shows average more than 9M viewers. But DVRs aren't "streaming"; they're tied to linear TV!
NBC Entertainment has spent close to 20 years loudly arguing that DVR views count. NBC Sports now wants to make DVR replays sound as cagey as digital views, but only for the purpose of this one stat. It ignores that huge swaths of the audience watch scripted shows via DVR
Now, if the point is that a live, or near-live, sporting event has more urgency than an ep of NCIS, and thus had a bigger same-day audience--- well, yes, that's true. For some (most!) advertisers, knowing viewers are watching live is important, so the stat isn't irrelevant
Seeing some folks talk about Goldie Hawn as if she's some radical Trumper or even anti-masker. But if you dig a little, you'll find that the UK tabloids and folks like John McCain's Daughter™️ warped her words on FNC to fit their agenda. (Shocking, I know.)
THREAD AHOY:
I forced myself to sit through her appearance Friday on Fox and Friends. The framing begins at the start, with the usual "FREE OUR KIDS" propaganda and even some flat-out lies, like including NV in the states which have mask mandates for kids (as of Friday, it didn't)
FNC's whole approach: Kids are being damaged by liberals and their masks! But Hawn, who for 20 years has been focused on improving kids' mental fitness, is trying to say something else: The very fact of the pandemic, and the way it's been politicized, is the problem.
BEING THE RICARDOS attracted more viewing than Netflix's DON'T LOOK NOW the week of 12/20, per Nielsen. It was the No. 1 original movie for the week as well.
BTR: 604 million minutes
DLU: 521 MM
Some context below....
BTR debuted 3 days before DLU, so it had more time to grab eyeballs. On the other hand, DLU is 20 minutes longer, which helps pad its total minutes tally.
Don't know exactly how many Prime Video subs there are in US, but Netflix is generally seen as bigger (@RichLightShed ?)
In any case, Netflix movies usually outperform Prime Video titles, so this is a bit of an upset.
Also interesting: Nielsen says the demo skew of BEING THE RICARDOS was old---36% of the audience was over 65. Lesson: Make more movies for people who don't go out to movies!
Just wanna put this out there before the flood of numbers and spin: The best way to compare Super Bowl audience size is by household ratings, i.e., the percent of TV homes which watched, and not total viewers.
The reason: Population grows! Ratings are static
Nets of late love to put out releases that say "A Record 110 Million People Watched SB," which...yes, that could be true.
But there are 330M+ potential US viewers today. In 1980, just 220M.
110M in 2021 is 1/3 of America. 109M in 1980 is half.
More than two years in the making, it's finally #AppleTVPlus launch day. There's been a lot of focus on its new shows (understandably so!) and what it doesn't have (old stuff.) But what's Apple's bigger play with TV+ --and the TV app? I wanted to find out (thread ahoy)
Since Apple hired two former Sony execs to run TV, people in Hollywood have been trying to figure out what the heck was going on in Culver City (where Apple video is based.) Was the plan to buy a studio/network & knock off Netflix? Maybe it just wanted to sell a few more phones?
As it started assembling creative execs and spending the now-required Crazy Sums of Money, I started talking to sources close to Apple about what the strategy was. TBH, many admitted they had no clue. But one thing I heard from a few was: "Pay attention to the TV app."