Tuesday’s Biggest Loser: The Corporate Media
In the wake of an historic American election let’s discuss winners and losers.
President-elect Donald Trump won, of course, but the biggest winner was the country, which will be unburdened by woke ideology, inflationary policies, open borders, new foreign wars and public health run by Big Pharma.
Hallelujah.
The losers were Kamala Harris and the Democrat Party. Both lied about the alarming mental condition of the president. Once they were found out, party bosses deposed Biden and replaced him with an empty, unlikable vessel.
But the biggest loser - and this gives me almost indescrible pleasure - is the legacy media.
Cancel your newspaper subscriptions and turn off network news. No one believes or pays attention to their relentless biased blather anymore.
Proof? The sweeping election of Trump.
Notice, I don’t refer to these anachronistic outlets as the “MSM” (mainstream media) because there is nothing mainstream about them. The Washington Post, The New York Times, virtually every other newspaper in the country and most network and cable news channels are run by brainwashed products of Marxist college professors and are far to the left of normal Americans. Sure, journalists claim their newsrooms are “diverse.” Don’t believe them. They’re talking race and gender. When it comes to political leanings: Go left or go home.
Throughout this presidential campaign these corporate media outlets feverishly cranked out dark stories about Trump and flattering pieces about Harris.
Yet the voters ignored the propaganda and voted Trump.
Major news broadcasters displayed an unprecedented level of political bias this campaign cycle, according to a new study by Media Research Center an organization that tallied the number of value-laden statements made about each candidate by news anchors on the three major networks, according to The National Review.
Across ABC, CBS, and NBC, coverage of Kamala Harris was found to be 78 percent positive and 22 percent negative, according to the study conducted by the Media Research Center, a conservative-leaning media watchdog group. By contrast, Donald Trump received 15 percent positive coverage versus 85 percent negative, trailing Harris by 63 percent in terms of positive coverage.
This unprecedented edge topped the previous record of +58 for President Joe Biden in 2020.
This blatantly negative coverage of Trump began as soon as he took office in his first term, according to CNBC. A Harvard study of the coverage of Trump’s first 100 days in 2017 analyzed unfair stories published in newspapers.
The Trump presidency is “setting a new standard for unfavorable press coverage of a president,” according to the report from Thomas E. Patterson, professor of government and the press at the Harvard Kennedy School and Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy.
The study looked at Trump’s first 100 days and examined coverage in the print editions of The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post, as well as broadcast outlets CNN, CBS, Fox News and CNBC parent NBC, and European news outlets the Financial Times, BBC and ARD in Germany.
Of the total news stories examined, 41 percent focused on Trump, which was triple the coverage for previous presidents for the same period
And of that group, the tone was resoundingly negative — 80 percent of all stories, to be exact. That would be just shy of double the first 100 days of Barack Obama and significantly more than George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton.
Remarkably, despite a deluge of negative coverage - including stories that accused him of being a fascist and Hitleresque, American voters sent Trump back to the White House for a second term.
What does this tell us? That the news-hungry public no longer trusts nor looks to 20th-century news-gathering dinosaurs for information.
That’s a good thing. They deserve to wither and die.
Instead of reading newspapers or watching television news, the engaged public tunes in to websites and podcasts that are not controlled by leftist overlords.
For instance, Joe Rogan is America’s number one podcaster. His Spotify audience numbers 14.5 million and his Youtube reach is even broader, 16.4 million.
Rogan’s three-hour, free-ranging interview with Trump last month was seen by an estimated 40 million people.
Harris declined to go on Rogan’s show. Her much-ballyhooed - but heavily edited - 20-minute appearance on CBS’ “60 Minutes” had only a 5.7 million audience.
Yawn.
The tsunami of negative news about Trump from the corporate media failed to dissuade voters, because those outlets are no longer trusted.
That should give network executives, publishers and shareholders incurable heartburn.
As long as the legacy media shovels manure at the public, pretending it's news, their audiences will shrink until they disappear entirely.
The sooner the better.
