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In reply to the discussion: You know, I've been on DU for sixteen years... [View all]kstewart33
(6,551 posts)Joy's most recent ratings published early this month indicates that she's on a roll. She's outpacing CNN in her weekend time slots, reaching a total of 1.3 million viewers.
Black Americans comprise 12.3% of the US population. Let's be generous and assume that 18% of her viewership is black. So she is reaching 234,000 black viewers each week.
There are approximately 37 million black Americans. Joy's reaching about 6 tenths of one percent of the black population.
We tend to think that more people are interested in what we are because we have a passion for it. Most people aren't. The sad truth is that Joy, while doing a great job building her base, has about as much of a chance of singularly stopping the blue wave as the odds of a snowstorm in Cuba. And I'd bet if we asked her about her chances of doing so, she'd think we're crazy.
We can hope, but for now, it just isn't going to happen.