Trust in the mainstream media is at an all-time low and just keeps sinking. They are just flabbergasted about it too. What went wrong?
Did they actually think bloviating about "low information voters" and that screaming the word fascism (ahistorically, I might add) would elect Kamala Harris?
Haaving an Ivy League diploma doesn't necessarily make you smart.
The Deplorables won!
2024’s Biggest Loser Is The Corporate Media Industrial Complex
The corporate media industrial complex has spent Donald Trump’s entire political career trying to destroy him. Hand-in-hand with triple-letter government agencies and Democrats, they ran a hoax painting Trump as a Russian stooge based on ridiculous rumors commissioned by his opponent’s campaign in 2016. They continued to spread the lie for the duration of his presidency, awarding each other Pulitzers for it. And they’ve only ramped up their efforts since then.
The problem they’re reckoning with tonight is this: those efforts didn’t work. They’re no longer able to control Americans by controlling their information intake, because their credibility is farther deep-sixed than the Clinton family’s enemies list.
A TV executive anonymously fretted last week that “If half the country has decided that Trump is qualified to be president, that means they’re not reading any of this media, and we’ve lost this audience completely. A Trump victory means mainstream media is dead in its current form.”
The Establishment media is dead. They just don't know it.
The Establishment Media Is Unaware of Its Growing Irrelevance
Last week, the news media went ballistic after the owners of the Los Angeles Times and Washington Post blocked each paper’s editorial boards from formally endorsing Kamala Harris for president. The Times editorial editor resigned in protest. Two other members of the editorial board followed her lead. Two Washington Post columnists resigned as well to signal their disapproval of the move, and many readers from both publications have reportedly canceled their subscriptions in response.
The assumptions that underlie these concerns are worth unpacking. The first, and perhaps most foolish notion, is that an endorsement from the LA Times or Washington Post will be a consequential factor in this election. The audience of both papers already skews heavily Democrat. Also, it is no mystery to anyone who spends as little as thirty seconds scrolling through editorial headlines that the papers’ editors support Harris over Trump, and why.
Maybe they should've tried delivering a product people can trust. But what do I know?
Ode To GeezerMedia
[T]he most viewed podcast episode of all time was the 2018 Rogan/Musk interview, which pulled in 69 million views over all platforms, including live and recorded streams. The Rogan/Trump interview has already taken second place with 45 million views in five days only on YouBoob. This doesn’t include Spotify or TwiX, for which I don’t yet have numbers.
In comparison, ABC/NBC/CBS nightly news programming pulls 18.9 million combined average views per night. The combined average daily viewership of the top four cable news networks is 2.5 million across all platforms, with FOX getting roughly half of it.
My peers in the GeezerMedia still grouse about “broadcast quality” and “production value,” but clearly the world doesn’t care about those things. Voting with their eyeballs and wallets, folks are obviously more interested in diverse opinions and eyewitness reporting, than anything the networks can offer.
Eighty years is a good run, and the GeezerMedia has produced some iconic moments and personalities, but it’s time to lay that corpse in its eternal rest.
The Propaganda Arm of the Executive.
The Fourth Branch of Government Faces a Reckoning
Overall, the news sector must come to terms with the fact that confidence in the media is at an all-time low and while regaining trust will be an uphill battle, it is one that must be fought. Americans have access to more information than ever before, but it seems we are far from being truly informed. In his book Who Governs?, Robert Dahl notes that an informed and engaged electorate is ideal, but reality often reveals constituents to be a far cry from policy experts and apathy to be commonplace. It is for these reasons that the media matters—the media can (and should) help to educate and energize the electorate.
Don't count on it.
Jeff Bezos Is Right: Legacy Media Must Self-Reflect
... Jeff Bezos, who owns the Washington Post and is the largest shareholder of Amazon, suggested in an op-ed in his own newspaper that legacy media may have themselves at least partly to blame for the loss of public trust in the media.
The owner of the Washington Post does not offer an especially penetrating diagnosis of the problem. However, he does point out some relevant facts that may be worth pondering if we are to come to a deeper understanding of the fact that the Joe Rogan podcast, with an estimated audience of 11 million, now has nearly 20 times CNN’s prime-time audience:
The Washington Post and the New York Times win prizes, but increasingly we talk only to a certain elite. More and more, we talk to ourselves. (It wasn’t always this way — in the 1990s we achieved 80 percent household penetration in the DC metro area.)
More and more, we talk to ourselves. Much of the legacy media has become an ideological echo chamber, as I pointed out in an op-ed in the Irish Times a few years ago. Conversations go back and forth between journalists about things they care about, while a substantial number of ordinary citizens, whose minds are on other things, like paying their mortgage, getting a medical appointment, or worrying about the safety of their streets, switch off.
We the People are breaking free.
MSM's Matrix Cracked This Election Cycle As Americans Woke Up In Droves
The censorship and manipulation of political information by Big Tech companies led by "woke" white-collar activists, corporate media, fact-checkers funded by far-left billionaires, a web of leftist-controlled non-profits, and the censorship blob in Washington, DC - all working in unison to combat free speech and control public narratives is at its worst: election interference.
But for the first time in any election cycle, the Democratic machine's matrix glitched and Deep State-approved narratives were instantly shattered by Elon Musk's X and citizen journalist who waged a 'meme-war' against the censorship blob.
The biggest takeaway from this election cycle is that an increasing number of Americans have broken free from the MSM's matrix.
The excuses are coming.
Russia, ‘Misinformation,’ White Women: Corporate Media Blames Everything Under Sun But Kamala
If past behavior is any indicator of future behavior, we know for sure that Democrats will a.) learn nothing on purpose from their historic election defeat and b.) incorrectly identify a cornucopia of scapegoats to blame their failure on instead of their untalented and sociopathic candidate who laughs like she needs a good old-fashioned exorcism.
They’ve already got a working list of scapegoats, in fact, beginning with obviously with the low-hanging fruit of racism and sexism a la the Confederacy.
So far, here’s the working list of parties at fault for not delivering the first diverse historic whatever to the Oval Office, in no particular order:
- Russia
- Jill Stein
- White racism, per professional CNN racist Van Jones
- Black racism AND black misogyny
- White women, per MSNBC Race Lady and cultural appropriator of blonde hair, Joy Reid
- Hurricane “misinformation” (in North Carolina, specifically)
- “Americans who apparently didn’t go to civics class, apparently didn’t learn the basics of this Constitution,” according to Joe Scarborough
We can expect the list to grow with time...
Politics... It's America's religion.
Liberal tears are flowing, and we found the craziest female meltdowns ever…
Dump DC.
