Young people aren’t watching CNN and MSNBC.
Hell, even millennials aren’t watching them.
Harris threw in her lot with a dying media format while not hitting the YouTube/podcast circuit hard.
I’m not saying she needed to go on Rogan, fuck Rogan. I’m saying the numbers bear out that not that many people are watching traditional media outlets in traditional ways.
Here’s an article crowing about 6 million viewers on election night. How do you think MSNBC fares on a non-election night? It’s a joke.
The same article admits that the MSNBC live YouTube channel of their election coverage had about 30 million viewers, which is, let’s just say quite a few more, and yet those numbers still pale in comparison to massive YouTube channels like MrBeast (slight retch) which clocks in at 330 million subscriptions.
The reality is that the YouTube and podcast sphere of influence absolutely fucking dwarfs traditional cable television networks and over-the-air networks.
And despite that, even if she had hit the YouTube and podcast circuit, I’m not sure how much it would have moved the needle because I think the real issue is that Republicans succeeded with No Child Left Behind actually gutting our education system. I don’t think talking policy works with people who read and speak at less than a sixth grade reading level, which at this point is a significant portion of the country. Trump spoke in word salad, but he never used big words that made them feel dumb. In fact, I’d wager the arguments that came from the right that Kamala spoke in a word salad are entirely related to the fact that they didn’t understand half the words she said, so to them, that’s a “word salad” of words they don’t understand.
Good luck with that, idiots. Enjoy an entire wasted life of being a temporarily embarrassed billionaire.