Saturday, March 30, 2019

MSNBC Keeps Mueller Story Alive, But the Public Is Done

The timeline below shows the total percentage of airtime by day in 15-second intervals across MSNBC, CNN and Fox News that mentioned Mueller since January 2017 through March 28, 2019, as monitored by the Internet Archive's Television News Archive.

Fox News was the quickest to move on from the Mueller investigation, with CNN also shifting to other topics after briefly beating MSNBC in its Monday recap of the Barr summary and reactions from across the political sphere.

As with the Mueller investigation as a whole, "Obstruction" was a favorite topic of MSNBC's, with the channel devoting 0.1 percent of its airtime since January 1, 2017 to mentions of the word, followed by 0.07 percent of CNN's and 0.04 percent of Fox News'.

Surprisingly, even MSNBC has largely shifted away from mentioning obstruction this week, moving attention back to the overall Mueller investigation.

Putting this all together, all three news channels have shifted their coverage away from obstruction and collusion over this past week, even MSNBC. CNN and Fox News have largely ramped down even their coverage of Mueller, but MSNBC appears to be trying to keep the story alive for as long as it can.

In the end, it seems that with the exception of MSNBC, the Mueller story is finally over for both television news and the public.

The only question is how much longer MSNBC will try to keep the story alive.


https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/03/30/msnbc_keeps_mueller_story_alive_but_the_public_is_done_139909.html

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