MSDNC’s Chuck Todd Hardest Hit After Announcement is Made About ‘Meet the Press Daily’ – Opinion

As we’ve noted before, Chuck Todd is the quintessential Democrat party apologist/Republican basher of the Beltway press corps.

There is not a Democratic scandal nor any other type of “Dems in disarray” story that he won’t try to put his best spin on, whether it is declaring it “overblown,” a “made-up issue,” or insulting the majority of Americans who give President Biden low approval ratings by suggesting they are too dumb to see all the great work Biden has supposedly done.

In rare instances, Todd will reluctantly acknowledge the legitimacy of a “bad news for Democrats” story while also using his powerful platform as an anchor on the once-prestigious Sunday “Meet the Press” program to offer Democrats his advice on what to do to get beyond the latest bad news cycle.

Todd has his fair share of critics on the far-left. They think that he is too friendly with Republicans, which Todd denies. It’s not uncommon to see them get Chuck Todd’s name to trend on Twitter because of their desire to get him canned from the NBC News network.

Though Todd’s liberal critics haven’t yet gotten what they wanted, surely the news that came out of NBC News Friday on the fate of his MSNBC “Meet the Press Daily” show will please them nevertheless. This program appears to have been doing so badly in key demographic ratings that it has been removed from the cable news channels and transferred to the streaming service.

Meet the Press Daily: Chuck Todd, MSNBC will transition to NBC News Now.

On June 6, his daily broadcast will begin as Meet the Press Now. This marks the latest initiative to broaden the offering on the site.

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Todd has moderated Sunday’s Meet the Press, the longest running show in TV history, since 2014. In 2015, he launched Meet the Press Daily (MSNBC), a spinoff of the show. It started in late afternoon with D.C. newsmakers. In 2020, the show was moved to its early afternoon time slot.

MTP Daily, a one-hour cable news channel, has trailed its rivals in total viewers as well as the 25-54 age group. According to Nielsen, it averaged 681 000 viewers per hour in April. Fox News’ America Reports has won the slot, drawing an average of 1.6 million over its two-hour time frame, while CNN posted 776,000 for CNN Newsroom with Ana Cabrera.

The move comes amidst other line-up changes at MSNBC, including the recent announcement that the “star” of MSNBC – Rachel Maddow – would only be returning to the network for a once-a-week show, a big departure from her previous five-days-a-week role.

Also, White House press secretary Jen Psaki will soon be departing the Biden administration in the next week to take her own seat at the table at the liberal news network, with an as-yet-to-be-announced program in a new gig on MSNBC’s “Peacock” streaming service.

I must confess that I was a little worried when I read that MTP Daily would be moving to streaming. I was relieved to find out where Todd’s daily show was going would be “free” to watch, because the thought of having To payAs a media critic, watching Todd trash Republicans as well as pillow-plumping in support of Democrats makes my stomach hurt. As the old saying goes, though, it’s a tough job but somebody has to do it…

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