Oh happy day, Glenn Beck drops 30% of audience
Glenn Beck has lost 1/3 of its TV audience since January
Should we blame it on the Massa Moment?
Will that Hindenburg performance soon be seen as the turning point for Glenn Beck: the pivotal moment when the Fox News show began to permanently leak viewers?
Who can forget the March day that will live in cable news infamy, when Beck invited embattled Democratic Congressman Eric Massa onto his show, for an entire hour, to blow the whistle on Democratic Party corruption? Or so Beck thought. Instead, Massa went on and on about tickle fights, and Beck became a laughing stock – the butt of endless Geraldo-opens-Al-Capone’s-vault jokes.
Prior to the Massa Moment, Glenn Beck was averaging 2.6 million viewers each week, and the show was still flying high. And in the short term, the wildly hyped Massa episode produced ratings gold, generating 3.4 million viewers that night, thank you very much. Long-term though, the effects have proven to be disastrous.</em>
Freedom of speech, diversity of opinion, blah blah blah. Glenn Beck is a cancer upon our nation, and the sooner he goes belly up, the better for all.
