{"id":28766,"date":"2020-05-21T21:07:57","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T02:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=28766"},"modified":"2020-05-21T21:07:57","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T02:07:57","slug":"a-renaissance-ctd-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/05\/21\/a-renaissance-ctd-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A Renaissance?, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in the land of mainstream media resurgence<\/a>, Margaret Sullivan of WaPo<\/strong><\/em> continues – without any hint of schadenfreude<\/em> – to talk about where people’s loyalties are moving<\/a> in this time of crisis and turmoil:<\/p>\n

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For the second week in a row, \u201c60 Minutes\u201d was the No. 1 prime-time show in the country, with an audience hovering around 10 million. (By comparison, a show like MSNBC\u2019s \u201cMorning Joe,\u201d which generates so much buzz, is lucky to score an audience of 1 million; and even the most popular prime-time cable shows rarely hit 5 million.)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Sure, direct comparisons are always a chancy affair, but ten million viewers for a news show that specializes in deep dives rather than rapid skims, featuring deeply respected and highly experienced journalists – compare to Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson of Fox News<\/strong><\/em> – is a good sized audience, although I’d argue there’s a lot of audience to go in a nation with 254 million adults (as of 2018<\/a>) – that is, they have the attention of 3% of the adult population.<\/p>\n

I suppose I should hurry up and admit I’ve never watched 60 Minutes<\/em> <\/strong>myself, and I’m not sure why not. Maybe I didn’t have the attention span for it, yet I’ve read Lord Of The Rings at least half a dozen times, so you’d think I could last through an hour long deep dive news show.<\/p>\n

That said, what I’d dearly like to see is a survey of 60 Minutes<\/strong><\/em> viewers with pertinent questions: Do you watch cable news? If not, did you in the past? Why did you stop, or why don’t you now?<\/p>\n

Is it a matter of trust? Is it a matter of overt or covert political slanting of the news? What are the political inclinations of 60 Minutes<\/strong><\/em> viewers, and have they changed over the past five years?<\/p>\n

I remain fascinated to see if Americans continue to watch broadcast national news by the big three broadcasters in bigger and bigger numbers, or if this is a tidal phenomenon. If it’s not, that portends a major change in American society – a change that fringers on both the right and the left will hate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in the land of mainstream media resurgence, Margaret Sullivan of WaPo continues – without any hint of schadenfreude – to talk about where people’s loyalties are moving in this time of crisis and turmoil: For the second week in a row, \u201c60 Minutes\u201d was the No. 1 prime-time show \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28767,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28766\/revisions\/28767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}