MSNBC, the cable arm of NBC News, has been losing grounds in the ratings war. Now, in a desperate bid to make up ground lost to Fox News and CNN, the network has dismissed a star host.
Or did the network fire him simply due to the footage where he described non-Muslims as “animals”?
For a stunning 34 consecutive months, Fox News has been the highest-rated cable news network. MSNBC remains in second. Rounding out the top five are CNN, Newsmax, and NewsNation.
In November, “MSNBC averaged 1.14 million total viewers in primetime. That’s -14% from the network’s October average and No. 4 overall behind ESPN, Fox News and Hallmark Channel, which is now in full-fledged holiday movie mode,” TVNewser reported.
The left-wing network averaged 109,000 prime demographic viewers on average during primetime throughout November, a 17 percent decrease from October.
After the news was released Thursday, far-Left liberal star Mehdi Hasan was fired from his job as host of a Sunday night show. Hasan will remain at the network only as a fill-in host and an on-camera analyst.
Hasan’s show on the streaming service Peacock was also canceled.
Will there be more shakeups at the network? So far MSNBC has been quiet.
Ratings aside, some believe Hasan’s show was canceled over footage of him calling non-Muslims “animals.” In this video, he also said homosexuals were linked to “pedophiles” and “sexual deviants.”
That footage, originally from 2009, was recirculating on social media this week.
Hasan apologized for the comments long ago, but they were recently resurfaced by a New York Post writer .
Take a look —
MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan has compared non-Muslims to "animals" and homosexuals to "pedophiles" and "sexual deviants"
Hard to imagine MSNBC allowing someone on television who said similar things about a different religion — let alone giving them a show! pic.twitter.com/CGBo4suQdh
— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) November 27, 2023
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