Welcome, everybody, starting today with what is really disastrous news for corporate and legacy media.

And the news is quite simple, which is Americans are bailing out of following the news at all.

And those that are going to come back are not likely to come back and follow the very same

corporate media that they were following before.

Now, if you've been watching the show for a while, you've heard me say before that corporate

media is sort of losing its grip. And many of the

people who are tuning out right now are not coming back at all. The latest data confirms it.

There's a new APNORC poll that Americans on both sides of the aisle are stepping back from political news.

MSNBC and CNN have seen these massive drops in post-election ratings.

MSNBC down 54 percent, CNN down 45 percent.

Now, meanwhile, I told you that Fox has gained viewers or at least more or less held steady.

So what's going on?

Is it partisan or not?

I want to break it down and then talk a little bit about it.

At a top level, people are burnt out.

After months of relentless campaign coverage, the punditry, the endless panels talking in circles having

to fill 24 hours a day, many Americans are understandably mentally exhausted.

That's in general.

And some of them are realizing something critical, which is you don't need corporate media anymore.

The whole idea of corporate media

and 24-hour cable news is it's kind of on all the time. You're not necessarily actively

listening the way you might to a 55-minute podcast episode with a discrete beginning, middle,

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