February 25, 2003
THERE'S YOUR LIBERAL TALK RADIO HOST:
MSNBC axes Phil Donahue (AP, February 25, 2003)MSNBC fired Phil Donahue on Tuesday, abruptly ending the veteran talk show host's return to television after six months of poor ratings. [...]The move was not a surprise. MSNBC hoped "Donahue" would provide a liberal counterweight to Fox News Channel's competing "The O'Reilly Factor," but the ratings started poorly and didn't improve. [...]
The political talk show format has yet to prove -- and may never -- that it can support a liberal voice, said Andrew Tyndall, head of ADT Research, a television news consulting firm.
As the great Yogi Berra once said: "If the fans don't come out to the ball park, you can't stop them." Posted by Orrin Judd at February 25, 2003 10:18 PM
Even at the pro-wrestling forum I post at, it's fairly obvious the people most knowledgeable about politics are either libertarians or conservatives, not liberals.
Why would anyone think a liberal political voice would draw any ratings?
Here's our recent thread on the coming war for anyone interested in what we like to discuss when not seeing large men hit each other over the head with steel chairs.
http://www.rajahwwf.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=48638