Jonathan Bernstein: “It’s no longer simply that they have got no monetary or skilled pastime within the birthday party profitable elections. It’s that their incentives run the opposite direction. In a well-known trend, since Joe Biden become president, Fox Information rankings are up and MSNBC rankings are down. Unfavorable partisanship is the most important for media intake; not anything will get partisans taking note of political information greater than strongly disliking the president and different elected officers.”
“And whilst I doubt that Sean Hannity (at Fox) or Rachel Maddow (at MSNBC) actively need their events to lose, the truth that skilled incentives name for simply that can not assist however make a distinction to what the ones networks do total.”
