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TAH's avatar

Brilliant. I was trying to explain to a friend the difference between streaming and legacy media, the different influences, accessibility and more, to make your point. I’ll forward this to her right now.

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Richard Donnelly's avatar

"but it also renders the conservative media ecosystem fragile" Don't know how fragile they are. Although they'd love to trade places with the MSM.

"it’s YouTube and its Charlie Kirks, not ABC and its Jimmy Kimmels, that dominates living room TV Nielsen ratings." I'm open to numbers, but I believe TV numbers dwarf YouTube.

Other than insensitivity, Kimmel didn't do anything all that wrong. One hardly noticed his, and most of the MSM's leftward slant. Kimmel's crime was falling ratings. For any for-profit entity, this is unforgivable.

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Sem Sath's avatar

No it's pretty forgivable, considering the circumstances. If only garnering two million viewers a night is a cancelable offense without any warning, then why even have TV? Pretty much every show on tv is falling in ratings, cancel them all.

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Richard Donnelly's avatar

More like one million, half of what it was a year ago, with little hope for recovery. The writing was on the wall

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Sem Sath's avatar

Well, it looks like somebody wiped that writing off the wall because he's back on the air now.

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Richard Donnelly's avatar

Good for him. It might have even been planned. Nothing like a controversy to gin up interest

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Sem Sath's avatar

Huh? Planned by whom? Dude there is no plan.

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Richard Donnelly's avatar

"Planned by whom?" I don't know. The writers? The network? The network and Kimmel? His show was dying, and now he'll get at least a temporary boost. Put two plus two together.

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