Media Week's Anthony Crupi provides an excellent sum-up of the election night cable game.
Crupi gives us the ratings data--Fox #1, CNN #2, MSNBC #3 among news outfits--but then adds, without further comment, a mention of a memo that MSNBC general manager Dan Abrams wrote to staffers, in which Abrams claimed that the network "had the best competitive ratings in recent memory for a major news event," and added, "the last two months represent a major turning point at this network."
Crupi keeps a straight face through such posturing, but then adds at the end that MSNBC not only finished behind Fox and CNN, it also finished behind Comedy Central. So finishing fourth counts as a "major turning point" for MSNBC?
Now that is a laugh!
