Monday night’s coverage drew 18.1 million viewers across 12 broadcasters and cable networks
  • slurpeesoforion
    64·
    2 months ago

    Did something happen to those viewers to prevent them from viewing? Maybe catch a contagious disease?

    • Delusional@lemmy.world
      91·
      2 months ago

      Nah trump is really only responsible for about a couple hundred thousand of those deaths. Not anywhere near 5 million.

      But he is most certainly responsible for hundreds of thousands of American deaths.

  • Feathercrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    2 months ago

    Being stupid on TV just doesn’t pull the same audience anymore. Also, use relative measurements for these headlines! “5 million” is useless without context. That’s over 20%!

    • Pronell@lemmy.world
      9·
      2 months ago

      But that audience is the cult.

      If they aren’t tuning in to watch the cult leader, that’s potentially good news down the line for turnout.

      Maybe just hopium, but if their enthusiasm drops, we win.

  • tacosanonymous@lemm.ee
    16·
    2 months ago

    Seems to be going around.

    I know I used to watch them just to see what to prepare for. Now I don’t even want the Clif Notes.

  • mctoasterson@reddthat.com
    3·
    2 months ago

    It is also Allstar week in Major League Baseball, and night 1 of the RNC coincided with the Home Run Derby.

    Of people who still watch broadcast or cable TV as their source of nightly entertainment, I’m going to guess most people were watching dudes hit homeruns instead of watching a glorified political ad.

  • synae[he/him]@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    21·
    2 months ago

    In 2016 there was an actual race to be won, a question to be answered, a reason to watch.

    Ever since then, the party has been all in on trump. No serious challenge has been made, and it turns out that doesn’t make for very good TV.

    • NevermindNoMind@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 months ago

      Yes, there was a lot of talk of a delegate revolt to prevent Trump from getting the nomination. Ted Cruz took to the convention floor to tell delegates to “vote their conscious”. Everybody wondered whether Trump, this joke of a candidate who actually won, would have the sense to pivot away from hard right rhetoric during his speech to appeal to the swing voters he would need to win over, given the seemingly insurmountable obstacle the Clinton Machine posed.

      This year there is no drama, we all know who Trump is, to the point where we can all just imagine what his speech will be and it will accurate. What’s the point of watching?