Yet, much of new media seems focused on chronicling the decline of old mainstream media: linear television, cable news, and the like. Since the election, the biggest news in the media world has been not just the continued collapse of cable television—fueled by Comcast spin-offs—but the implosion of cable news networks not named Fox News. Viewers of CNN and MSNBC, however, are turning off their screens. Both MSNBC and CNN are collapsing across the board. In the short term, Fox News benefits from the failures of MSNBC and CNN, but the long-term viability of cable news is in question.

Source: CNN November 22, 2024 16:01 UTC