Morning Joe Ends the Week With a Ratings Slide

Morning Joe ended a tumultuous week with a precipitous ratings drop. Since co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski disclosed their in-person meeting with President-elect Donald Trump, the MSNBC morning show has seen a steady erosion in viewership. While that dovetails with the larger post-Election Day ratings woes facing both MSNBC and CNN, it also suggests that the Morning Joe audience didn’t exactly embrace the duo’s argument that it was “time to do something different” in regards to covering Trump.The controversy surrounding Scarborough and Brzezinski’s trip to the president-elect’s Florida headquarters started almost…