- Canceled Colbert's Message On Monday: It's All About Me
by
Adam Buckman
(TVBlog on
07/23/2025)
Tony - Colbert is not the highest rated talk show on television. His ratings have been declining since 2019 and that has nothing to do with Trump not liking him.
Do a little research to see who's number one in late night.
- The Trump-Colbert Conspiracy: The Case For And Against
by
Adam Buckman
(TVBlog on
07/22/2025)
The problem for legacy networks like NBC and CBS is they've been behind the trends in viewing for the past 20 years. We've been watching the slowest train wreck in history and it's incredible how many industry experts act like this was all unavoidable and want to inject politics into these decisions.
- Canceled Colbert's Message On Monday: It's All About Me
by
Adam Buckman
(TVBlog on
07/23/2025)
He's trying to get fired. Smart.
He'll launch his own independent late nite Trump hating channel on YouTube, talk to anyone and everyone to play his self-pity fiddle, and make pittance compared to what he used to while claiming victory. At least Stewart can call balls and strikes. But Colbert's all grievance all the time is eye rolling.
I truly loved him on Stewart's show and enjoyed watching him when he was given his owm show on Comedy Central. His move to CBS - he was unwatchable after week one.
- TV Viewer Petition: Keeping The 'Late Show' Around?
by
Wayne Friedman
(TV Watch on
07/23/2025)
How about a staff of 200 for a show that continues to decline in ratings?why is it MediaPost as far behind as the legacy networks in realizing production costs have decreased by leaps and bounds thanks to modern technology and that these late night shows have morphed from good entire family entertainment into hour long political diatribes that nobody wants to watch.
Kimmel and Fallon won't be far behind - 200 people to produce a show that's one long, unfunny, not training political rant is not a good business model for any company. This nonsense about a Trump lawsuit is just fodder to ignore the truth.
- And Now For Our Next Guest: The Demise Of Late-Night TV
by
Adam Buckman
(TVBlog on
07/21/2025)
Colbert's show is losing $40 million a year, it's estimated Fallon's show loses $10 million a year, and Kimmel loses about $10 million a year.
Nobody ever started a media company to lose money. Maybe if these programs didn't become so nauseatingly political, they could have lasted longer. Even their social media IMPs on YouTube and other platforms are deteriorating because the schtick is old and tired. People want to laugh and be entertained late nite - not listen to an hour long political diatribe.
- CBS Cancels 'Late Show' Days After Colbert Jokes About Trump Deal
by
Wayne Friedman
(Television News Daily on
07/18/2025)
Colbert's ratings are down 36% since its peak in 2019 and continue to trend down. Maybe the network execs are tired of his all Trump all the Time humorless show too.
- Its Master's Voice
by
Joe Mandese
(Red, White & Blog on
07/15/2025)
I won't go into all of the flaws in your approach, and there are many, but maybe, just maybe, that at the same time, the news that some on Biden's staff admitted he wasn't aware of the individuals getting pardons from the autopen and his doctor taking the fifth in closed door meetings about Biden's health might have something to do with more mentions of Biden.
And I hope you search "Epstein Hoax" on other news sites - there are several of them that have five figure results.
Mediapost search results for "Donald Trump" = 3,000
Mediapost search results for "Joe Biden" = 769
I guess clicks matter :D
- Dentsu: Gaming Is The New Social, Brands Remain Cautious
by
Colin Kirkland
(MediaDailyNews on
07/03/2025)
While I applaud brands embracing the gaming space, it is odd to me how many agencies over the last few years present their findings around gaming and social engagement like it is a new phenomena.
Reminder: XBOX launched two years before Facebook and MySpace. XBOX was actually the first social network connecting people and creating communities on a global scale almost 25 years ago.
If you're an agency and the lightbulb just went off that gaming is a very social activity and it is a "burgeoning success," you're already 15-20 years behind.
- Trump Lawsuit Against '60 Minutes' Is Theater Of The Absurd
by
Adam Buckman
(TVBlog on
05/30/2025)
I've been an avid reader of MP for the past 20 years and the complete abandoment of objectivity covering the media has become absurd ever since Trump was elected president.
The "story" is not the lawsuit or the money. What your entire staff fails to recognize is that these lawsuits are exposing the actual truth. Your piece last week referred to this as a "tiny" edit. Now you refer to it as a "small" edit.
Anyone who is reasonably objective who sees Harris' unedited comments and what was aired are two VERY different things. They never felt the need to edit Trump's answers, but they took absolute word salads and incoherent verbal vomiting to make Harris sound resolute and confident - and that is NOT how she responded.
The lawsuits force the legacy news outlets to disclose internal documents guiding "journalists" to proclaim a narrative vs. truth. The lawsuits force disclosure of emails and discussions and texts that prove objectivity was not the goal, but to present the story that the network wanted to present. ABC memos reveal Stephanopolous was repeatedly warned not to call Trump a convicted rapist, CNN memos reveal the Covington Kid story was absolute horsesh-it, and CBS doesn't want to answer why these "editing" decisions were made to show Harris as articulate when she was anything but.
So now, CBS has settled. If all of these people quit and CBS really felt it was in the right, it would keep fighting.
MediaPost is no longer an industry watchdog or objective bystander. Its continuous defending of malpractice by legacy news outlets illustrates that the entire staff's agenda is to promote an agenda and not provide objective guidance to its audience.
In closing, study after study proves that the American people don't give any credence to legacy news outlets and the majority of Americans, especially those under the age of 40, get the majority of their news from influencers and independent outlets.
Legacy news outlets are not being demonized. They've dug their own graves and MediaPost and it's agenda driven staff further reinforces why the general public has largely turned its back on legacy "news" outlets. And also reinfoces how MediaPost has gone from a trusted source to water-carrying monkeys with no vision for the future of the media.
- Media Modeling Of Masculinity
by
Gord Hotchkiss
(Media Insider on
05/27/2025)
Having worked directly with male influencers for the past decade, the headline immediately caught my eye. And I read the article. Not once. Not twice. But three times. Scratching my head even more after the third read.
You never outline, define, or explain what a "masculinity influencer" actually is. Nor do you actually cite any specific responses in this study, but you make a lot of your own personal assertions without any proof or merit to substantiate the claim (and I get that it's an opinion piece, but still).
I found this question the most odd, yet on point, but not in the way you would assume, "Why do young men need influencers to tell them how to be a better man? For that matter, why do any of us, regardless of age or sex, need someone to influence us?"
Men's Health, Muslce & Fitness, Maxim, Cosmopolotin, Glamour, Good Housekeeping...we (men and women) have been looking to influencers for well over half a century, so why this is presented like some new phenomena seems disengenous.
The difference between then and now is that thanks to the digital age, influencers get real-time feedback through their feeds. Whether they read through their feeds or they have software assistance, they know in the fraction of the amount of time what their audience wants, likes, dislikes, etc.
There are absolutely good and bad outcomes from social media and there are influencers who are helpful and influencers who are hateful (seems like the same can be said of a lot of news pundits these days as well), but the focus on some kind of misguided masculinity and questioning as to why men of any age would look to others to offer guidance, advice, support, or just some entertainment in general, is a bit derisive.
Finally, "These are relationships without any reciprocity. No price will be paid for passing on potentially harmful advice."
You are incorrectly assuming reciprocity is required. Research shows the vast majority of people who follow influencers or consume online content do not engage. As far as no price being paid for passing on potentially harmful advice, you're just opening up the can of worms that's been opened countless times - who is to say what is "potentially harmful" while ignorning that a lot of truthful and helpful information was supressed over the past 5 years from very well-known sources and "influencers."
We spent the past five years debating what defines a woman and men were told that masculinity is toxic, and yet we wonder why young men in this country are seeking assistance while struggling to find themselves and find worth?