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Trump’s return to power raises serious questions about the media’s credibility
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Trump’s return to power raises serious questions about the media’s credibility
CNN
By Brian Stelter
November 6, 2024
Donald Trump’s return to power is a hinge point for the American media – in ways big, small, and to be determined. His defeat of Kamala Harris is raising questions about the media’s credibility, influence, and audience. Some of the questions might not be answerable for years.
But journalists are asking each other: What does this “red wave” election say about the information environment in the United States?
In the hours after Trump won reelection Tuesday, some of his loyalists asserted that his victory is a complete repudiation of the news media. For a time on Wednesday morning, The Federalist’s lead headline was not about Trump, it was about the “corporate media industrial complex” being “2024’s biggest loser.”
Legacy media “is officially dead,” The Daily Wire podcaster Matt Walsh wrote on X overnight. “Their ability to set the narrative has been destroyed. Trump declared war on the media in 2016. Tonight he vanquished them completely. They will never be relevant again.”
That’s wishful thinking on Walsh’s part — Tuesday’s marathon election coverage was a testament to the media’s relevance — but the point is that many Trump voters share his wish. They believe the national news media is a big part of what ails America. Not only do they distrust what they read, they often don’t read it in the first place. Can anything be done to change that?
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https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/06/media/trump-reelection-media-credibility-trust/index.html
DefiantMassRINO:
This is what America thinks of MSM ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4jWAwUb63c
Smokin Joe:
What it says is that we no longer are held hostage by your filters at ABCNNBCBS, and can independently research, and thanks in no small part to Elon Musk, (and Nancy, of course), can compare notes and reveal the lies the legacy media are trying to push on us.
As for the complete loss of credibility of broadcast news, it is a self inflicted wound. No pity here, you sonsofbitches, you brought this on yourselves. You shit that bed, now sleep in it.
Bigun:
The media had no credibility to begin with if you ask me.
libertybele:
--- Quote from: Bigun on November 06, 2024, 09:44:07 pm ---The media had no credibility to begin with if you ask me.
--- End quote ---
Exactly. What credibility???
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