Tuesday, November 16, 2021

Book Tour

This explains Chris Christie on CNN, MSNBC, talking to the New York Times, what have you. And a reminder: fewer and fewer people are watching cable. Audience decline there is massive. So it's more and more clear to me Christie is talking to journalists who watch and report on what cable news says. Sort of like the same journalists who tell me what Steve Bannon just said on his podcast. I'm sure Bannon has a larger audience than this blog does (paint drying on YouTube has a larger audience than this blog has), but twice nothing is still nothing.

Besides, I'm old enough to remember when Christie was the darling of broadcast media, and a sure thing to be the GOP nominee because New Jersey is close to NYC (mostly), and he gave good TeeVee.
Yeah, there was that. He was about as popular in the GOP primaries as prickly heat. Turned out news producers loved him for their news talk shows, but nobody else did. What's changed? Oh, gee, why didn't we all think of that? The Lincoln Project has been pushing that idea for 2 years now. It's not clear they've effected any electoral outcome, although they claim they stopped the sky from falling on numerous occassions. Mostly I think of the Lincoln Project as the GOP version of James Carville: not nearly so important or influential in their heyday as they think they were; and certainly not nearly so important or influential now.

Sorta like Chris Christie.
CNN has 168 hours a week to fill. Haven’t you noticed?
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