Posted on 11/04/2024 4:54:22 PM PST by John Semmens
Growing signs that Trump may win the election are unnerving media moguls. One network executive told New York Magazine writer Charlotte Klein "as a group, 85% of our coverage of Trump has been negative. In contrast, 78% of our coverage of Harris has been positive. How can this not have doomed Trump's candidacy? If half the country has decided that Trump is qualified to be president, that means we've lost this audience completely. A Trump victory means mainstream media is dead in its current form."
"The partnership we've had with the Biden Administration to discredit and censor dissenters from the progressive way of thinking will be shattered," he went on. "All kinds of misinformation will be permitted to pollute the minds of Americans. Once trusted authorities will be distrusted, challenged, or even mocked. No one will know who to believe. In hindsight, I guess we should've gone 100% negative on Trump and 100% positive on Harris. It seems that trying to give an appearance of balance and fairness undermined the more important objective of unifying the nation behind a single way of thinking."
Byron York, political correspondent for the Washington Examiner newspaper, suggests that the media's heavy bias against Trump may have backfired, saying "the wildly negative media coverage is actually causing many Americans to view Trump more favorably. After all, the media is one of the least-trusted institutions in American public life, and if top media figures say something, millions of Americans are likely to believe the opposite."
In related news, CNN dinged Harris for running pro-Israel ads in Pennsylvania where a lot of Jews reside and anti-Israel ads in Michigan where a lot of Antisemites reside, saying "such blatant duplicity is not an admirable quality for a person seeking the nation's highest office."
I have trouble seeing the downside.
I used to get my news strictly from Rush, and Free Republic. Now that Rush is gone, it’s just Free Republic. The Mainstream Media can die for all I care.
Another reason to vote for Trump that I didn’t need, because I had so many already.
I think I see the problem.”
There is a whole generation or two of Leftist journalists who are going to disappear. Dan Rather goes back to JFK. Doris Kearns Goodwin goes back to LBJ. James Carville goes back to Clinton. The list is really very long. All of these people have passed their Sell By date. No one cares what they think. The industry will cast them aside after this big loss.
Younger journalists will step up, but they won’t have gravitas, they won’t be such household names, and they won’t be as artful. Many will be woke little crazy people. They won’t really make a mark.
And, in general, the public has soured on Mainstream News. It’s a bad industry, no one really cares about it anymore, and the familiar faces will be gone.
They’re done. I see no recovery.
I hope he destroys liberal indoctriaction. Get rid of tenured lib profs too.⁸
Can this be a real quotation? The level of ignorance and self-deception is galactic.
So 90% of employees will have to be laid off.
Jeff Bezos is a Democrat. But I don't think he's a progressive.
They will just relocate.
The power to influence others will not disappear.
Those who sell the power to influence others will migrate into the new territory of influence.
It’s already happening.
yo john,,
reading this , i had to go check to confirm my suspicion this was a Bee piece.
it wasnt.
wow.
If you notice, this thread and the posted article are SATIRE. It is clearly labeled that it is Satire.
Don’t take my comment harshly. You are not the first to think the articles by JOHN are real. I’ve made that mistake, and more than once.
JOHN SEMMENS is very skilled at these SATIRE articles and almost invariably someone is fooled. Blame it on his skills, not yourself or anyone similarly surprised.
didn’t they already destroy themselves?
lol !!! Did they save the gallows from J6 ?
It’s not that they “lost” the audience, so much as their credibility has evaporated.
The so called news media pepolple pepale are too stupid to know that they are stupid. period
what part do you believe is SATIRE ?
If Trump wins, his first tasks are: clean out the FBI, clean out the CIA, clean out the national security establishment, clean out the Justice Department. That is all.
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