*Inserts Generic Think Piece About Donald Trump*
The rise of online streaming services, such as Netflix and Hulu, have dramatically and completely revolutionized the way that Americans consume media; especially young adults. According to the Pew Research Center, six-in-ten people from ages 18 to 29 (61%) primarily watch television now with streaming services on the internet. Only 31% said that they mostly watch via a cable of satellite subscription. However, 59% of U.S. adults say cable connections are their primary means of watching TV. The gag is, these streaming services either started or became popular in the 2000s, meaning that television and the way that we watch television has completely been changed within about 20 years for about 40% of the population. Ever since these streaming services were released, ratings for major news and television companies started to plummet because everyone is watching Netflix or reading their news online. But as of 2015, the ratings are higher than they ever have been. You know why? Donald Trump. Donald Trump is the best thing that could have happened to cable television, and honestly, if it wasn’t for him, I am 100% certain that Fox, CNN, and MSNBC would be filing for bankruptcy (okay that’s an exaggeration but they would be in deep s*$#&).
The three major cable news networks earned record profits and attracted record audiences as millions of Americans tuned in to watch the election between Donald Trump and Hillary. Fox News, which was one of the most unwatched networks prior to the election, benefited the most. Fox outperformed CNN and MSNBC consistently throughout the election and afterwards. In November of 2015, Fox averaged 3.3 million viewers in primetime, a 68% increase over November 2015. CNN averaged 1.5 million viewers, a 128% increase from last November. NSNBC attracted 1.3 million viewers, a 98% increase. Year after year, daytime viewership grew by 60% for Fox, 75% for CNN, and 83% for MSNBC. These increased ratings got these networks BIG BANK (take lil bank lol...I had to do it). Ad revenue for cable news reached about 2 billion dollars in 2016, which was a 15% increase from 2015...and it’s only increasing every year!
I'm sure everyone tuned into all of the debates between these two. This is when I truly began to accept the fact that he is a sexist narcissist.
Moral of the story: THESE MEDIA NETWORKS ABSOLUTELY LOVE DONALD TRUMP AND NEED HIM TO GET RE-ELECTED IN 2020. THIS IS THE BEST THING TO HAPPEN TO THEIR POCKETS IN YEARS! With millions of Americans continuing to switch to streaming services like Netflix, HULU, and HBO Go, Cable television and the News were about to be extinct like the dinosaurs. These networks were plummeting and their salaries were plummeting until Trump came along. And in my opinion, his re-election would be the second best thing to ever happen to these networks; the first best thing being his first election lol. There is no such thing as bad press…and these networks do his job for him. Publicizing his every move, sharing his racist tweets on their network…basically spreading his message for him and we are consuming it. And us as viewers are just…falling into the trap. They are profiting from him, all whist telling us how “bad” they think he is. STAY WOKE OUT HERE! BE AWARE OF THE CODING! These liberal networks are profiting from his as well!