Former MSNBC Host Mehdi Hasan Starting His Own News Service To Fill Progressive 'Gap In The Market'

If you're one of the literally dozens of people who was a regular viewer of Mehdi Hasan's show on MSNBC and have been left bereft since Hasan's abrupt departure from the network in early January, fear not! Hasan is returning to the role all 30 of you so adored him in, that of progressive journalism! Okay, more than 30 people watched MSNBC's 'The Mehdi Hasan Show', but in the world of television rating not THAT many more all things considered. Mehdi's show rarely cracked 500,000 viewers, and in the 18-49 demographic he was generally lucky to get 50,000 at most because a lot of the time he was being watched by between ~13,000 and ~40,000 people in that key demographic. But despite this clear indication from the market at large that nobody's really all that interested in what Mehdi has to say he's coming back to the news business… now in Substack form!

After MSNBC Exit, Mehdi Hasan Launching Media Company Zeteo. Why does Mehdi feel that this… news product is needed? Well there's a gap in the market you see: Just not enough progressives in journalism! Ex-MSNBC Mehdi Hasan Launching His Own Media Company to Fill Progressive 'Gap in the Market.' You see the problem with Mehdi's show on MSNBC was he was being constrained by the corporate suits who wouldn't let him say the 'uncomfortable truths' or whatever! That's it! There's a gap in the news market for firebrand Progressive political reporting and only Mehdi Hasan can fill it! Looking at the gap: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GHbx4uzWEAI2AeJ?format=png&name=small -- If the political media landscape lacks anything, it’s left-of-center commentary. Every one of the news networks and nightly news crews are chock full of rock-ribbed Republicans who won't give the Democratic Party a fair shake! Everyone knows it, right?

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