Heading into America’s election day, the mainstream media wrote repeatedly that the race was neck-and-neck, a dead heat. When Donald Trump won decisively it was another standout example – remember his 2016 win over Hillary Clinton? – of him making the American media wrong again.
For all the beatings Mr. Trump has laid on the Washington establishment, few can match the thrashing he has given the traditional media complex.
Panic engulfed MSNBC headquarters on Wednesday after parent company Comcast confirmed a massive spinoff of its cable properties — with a top executive even suggesting the left-leaning network may be forced to change its name.
MSNBC stars Rachel Maddow, Chris Jansing and Katy Tur joined a tense 10 a.m. meeting at 30 Rock in Midtown led by NBCUniversal chairman Mark Lazarus, who will lead the new company, sources told The Post.
Liberal legacy media outlets are attempting to pivot to the political centre amid declining public trust, shrinking audiences, and tightening margins.
Yesterday, the Los Angeles Times announced that it is forming a new editorial board in an effort to win back trust. “When the President has won the vote of the majority of Americans then ALL voices must be heard,” Pat Soon-Shiong, the outlet’s owner, wrote. “I will work towards making our paper and media fair and balanced so that all voices are heard and we can respectfully exchange every American’s view, from left to right to the center.”
They couldn’t abide him.
And they made no secret of it.
The “they” here is the so-called “mainstream” media – aka in reality the liberal media.
“Him” of course is Donald Trump. That would now be President-elect Donald Trump. A president-elect who won his race in a landslide, winning both the Electoral College and, in a first for a GOP candidate since 2004, the national popular vote as well.
“I have one thing to say to Kamala supporters…
Stand back and stand by”
They’re gonna do an insurrection, aren’t they? pic.twitter.com/MWd2kGWWtk
— shellshock (@shellshockkk) November 11, 2024
The establishment media’s control over framing the election narrative is “shattered,” Axios’s Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen acknowledged Monday.
The report confirms Gallup polling that shows Americans’ trust in the media is at an all-time low. For years, the media has pushed false narratives that involved Hunter Biden’s laptop story, Russian collusion, the source of the 2020 pandemic, the January 6 investigation, and numerous other hoaxes.
It appears the decision by many papers to abandon the tradition of candidate endorsement was guided at least in part by the market forces hammering the media.
Kamala alone is good reason to take a pass but some owners have decided that in a tough market it no longer makes sense to alienate a huge segment of the public by reporting your bias rather than the truth.
Jeff Bezos says yes: No One Trusts Journalists and It’s Journalist’s Fault
We must be accurate, and we must be believed to be accurate. It’s a bitter pill to swallow, but we are failing on the second requirement. Most people believe the media is biased. Anyone who doesn’t see this is paying scant attention to reality, and those who fight reality lose. Reality is an undefeated champion. It would be easy to blame others for our long and continuing fall in credibility (and, therefore, decline in impact), but a victim mentality will not help. Complaining is not a strategy. We must work harder to control what we can control to increase our credibility.
Thankfully The Star, a mouthpiece of the Liberal gov’t and the recipient of involuntary tax payer funding, explains that the Washington Post and LA Times are bending the knee in fear of TrumpHitler who surely will silence all critical media! Case closed. Science settled. You are Hitler.
Billionaire owners of Washington Post and L.A. Times are bending the knee to Donald Trump
… The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times — or more precisely the billionaire owners of those papers — announced late last week that they won’t endorse a candidate in the presidential election now only days away. Both organizations issued statements along the lines of “not telling our readers how to vote.” But it’s not much of a leap to conclude their owners are worried about retribution against their other business interests if they endorse Kamala Harris (as their editorial staffs wanted to do) and Donald Trump is elected.
Oh my … h/t DS
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans continue to register record-low trust in the mass media, with 31% expressing a “great deal” or “fair amount” of confidence in the media to report the news “fully, accurately and fairly,” similar to last year’s 32%. Americans’ trust in the media — such as newspapers, television and radio — first fell to 32% in 2016 and did so again last year.
For the third consecutive year, more U.S. adults have no trust at all in the media (36%) than trust it a great deal or fair amount. Another 33% of Americans express “not very much” confidence.
h/t DS
CBS News is facing a civil war over presenter Tony Dokoupil’s interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates. Accusations are coming from within the network that Dokoupil, who pushed back on Coates’s more dramatic claims, was overly aggressive. The interview earlier this week, centred on Coates’s latest book about the Israel-Palestine conflict, has triggered some tortured internal debate about what the role of a journalist is — and if there’s a double standard at work when subjects such as Coates, a darling of the social justice movement, are involved.
People have more access to information than any time in human history and it’s literally at their fingertips. They are also being exposed to more misinformation than ever as well.
The role of sifting through a constant barrage of breaking events to provide citizens with a concise and accurate summation of it should fall to media outlets. However, many media sources have been failing in that task and people are losing trust. This is a dangerous trend in tumultuous times as citizens try to make informed decisions in polarized elections.
Rogers Communications Inc. is calling on federal lawmakers to extend newsroom subsidies to include TV and radio employees, arguing that current tax credits unfairly exclude broadcast journalists.
Blacklock’s Reporter says the telecommunications giant emphasized that broadcast journalism plays a crucial role in delivering the country’s most sought-after news content.
The obvious prejudice shown by debate moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis should surprise no one.
After Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice Beetlejuice grossed $110 million for its opening weekend of haunted-house antics, the week’s biggest carnival-ride shock and exasperation came from conservative media observations about the Donald Trump and Kamala Harris debate. Conservatives are always surprised that mainstream media always display their bias.
Conventional television in Canada continues to struggle, with revenues and viewership both on a downward trajectory, according to recent data from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC).
Blacklock’s Reporter says last year, English-language TV revenues fell by 7%, from $1.2 billion to $1.1 billion.
Never has gaslighting gone so far, for so long, with such high stakes. Over the last four years, the establishment media has propped Biden up, pushed Biden out, and now it seeks to ram Kamala Harris in.
There is a reason why Americans no longer trust the establishment media. A year ago, Gallup found that just under one-third (32 percent) of Americans had a “great deal” to “a fair amount” of trust that the “mass media” reports “the news in a full, fair and accurate way.” That matched “Gallup’s lowest historical reading, previously recorded in 2016.” At the time, “29% of U.S. adults [had] ‘not very much’ trust, while a record-high 39% register ‘none at all.’” By roughly two-to-one, Americans distrust the establishment media.
Last week in this space the focus was on Time magazine’s glorification of now Democrat presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris.
The point was that the then-current cover of Time – an illustration of Harris that, as noted, presented her as “a cross somewhere between Miss America and a religious icon” – was in reality an illustration of just how the “mainstream media” was thoroughly in the tank for Democrats and the Left in general, and, this election year, Harris in particular.
Since Joe Biden exited the 2024 presidential race four weeks ago, the liberal networks have delivered an unprecedented boost of positive publicity to his successor in the race, Vice President Kamala Harris. Not only has Harris received 66% more airtime than former President Donald Trump, but the spin of Harris’s coverage has been more positive (84%) than any other major party nominee, even as Trump’s coverage has been nearly entirely hostile (89% negative).
Not that many years ago, the best way to find out about businesses in town was through your local newspaper. Your local newspaper is still a great source of advertising information, but if you’re looking for something, chances are you’re going to start by “Googling it.” Have you ever wondered why that’s become our go-to move? Well, a recent court ruling has shed some light on this, and it’s not a pretty picture.
