Another one of the Trump hating castoffs from Faux News, went to NBC and is becoming an epic failure. This seems to be a pattern. First it was Greta Van Susteren, then it was Megyn Kelly, now it’s the piece of trash Shepard Smith. CNBC hired him for “straight news”, and his ratings have been an epic fallure just as expected. It’s gotten so bad for Smith that he is reportedly throwing routine temper tantrums at his staff.
You know it’s bad when even the left-leaning Daily Beast is writing about your decline. Shepard Smith, the liberal former Fox News host famously left his network after 23 years, is running into trouble at CNBC. The Daily Beast warned of low ratings, a difficult environment for staff, and “temper tantrums” endangering the show.
The story by Lachlan Cartwright and Maxwell Tani created a gloomy picture for the liberal journalist: “CNBC insiders have a lot of reasons for why Shepard Smith’s show has failed to capture major ratings. But one thing many agree on is that it has not met the bosses’ expectations…. The viewers never seemed to show up.”
They wrote:
According to Nielsen Media Research, the show averaged just 197,000 total viewers in June, losing a third of its viewers since the show’s peak in February, which saw an average of 296,000 nightly viewers.
The darker claims about Smith describe a very difficult person to work for. Cartwright and Tani described, “But amid a wider re-evaluation of bullying in media workplaces, some staffers have complained that he is difficult to deal with.”