Posted on 11/14/2023 1:22:22 AM PST by thegagline
There has been plenty of talk lately about Silicon Valley abandoning the news business.
That’s largely true, but it doesn’t get to an even deeper problem: the utter erosion of public confidence in the media, which stems from a long history of self-inflicted wounds, high-profile errors and unmistakable bias.
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The newer iterations – TikTok and YouTube influencers – are now stealing some of their market share, so this blame game isn’t convincing. The mainstream media, which once monopolized the industry, have blown it. *** As Charlie Warzel put in the Atlantic: "Readers are breaking up with traditional news." *** Though I think a key missing factor here is Donald Trump. During his tumultuous presidency, circulation, clicks and ratings shot up for all news outlets. People who didn’t usually follow politics were riveted by the controversy and chaos.
It was inevitable, and Trump used to predict this, that these numbers would plunge once he gave way to the low-key presidency of Joe Biden. *** Republicans have long had less faith in the press than Democrats, but that exploded from 2017 through 2020. From the media’s hostility toward Trump during his first campaign to acting like the opposition party when he was in the White House, and intensifying after Jan. 6 and his subsequent indictments, the blatant bias against Trump was overwhelming.
Of course, he deserved some of the negative press, but most of the media began a virtual crusade against him. *** And third, Trump’s "enemy of the people" attacks on the media, and individual journalists, helped cement the narrative that the press was part of the deep state, constantly trying to undermine him.
His supporters, who generally despise the media, relished these attacks as reinforcing their world view. ***
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It all starts with Trumps declaration that “FAKE news is the enemy of the people”
The media has been the fifth column for decades.
Forget TikTok (China) & YouBoob (Controlled Speech & Censor), join #Twitter & Rumble, platforms for FREE SPEECH. Has FreeRepublic entertained opening a Rumble Channel?
“Fake but accurate” is all you need to know.
The fraudulent media has been called out long before Trump. Rush Limbaugh, Brent Bozell (Media Research Center, since the mid 1980s) etc etc. You can even go back to the 1800s where newspapers would excoriate their competitors for publishing fraudulent stories.
We’d change The New York Times “All The News That’s Fit to Print” on the masthead to “All the News That Fits, We Print.”
...relished these attacks as reinforcing their world view.
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True but misses the target. It’s simply great to hear a leader say out loud what is *obviously true* for a change.
I'm not sure if you are being facetious.
In any case, I will bite: Signing legislation that increased the national debt by over $7 trillion ($7,000,000,000,000+)
I’ve seen folks here claim media is over 15 years ago
It’s not
And it’s the biggest arrow in their quiver
Newsrooms whether print or tv tend to be run at editorial and publishing level by the same folks
Largely urban elites often Jewish secularists or not and their worldview which has become even more leftist and woke is hostile to the wellsprings of western civilization
Even with anti semitism and anti Israel sentiment alarmingly high they are trending towards the Hamas sympathetic or proportional response side and were all in on uniparty wars and woke politics
Some of these media properties are owned by conservatives like John Malone at CNN parent majority stock guy but he’s been unable to budge them much sadly
When I was young it was still there but not as flagrant or extreme
Kurtz when describing a less than trustworthy media is describing himself.
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