The decline of legacy media

 Candace Hathaway:

President-elect Donald Trump's overwhelming victory on November 5 appears to have marked the end of an era for the corporate press. And that is certainly something worthy of gratitude this Thanksgiving.

The outcome of the election revealed that the vast majority of voters were unswayed by the liberal media's relentless attacks against Trump and the Biden-Harris administration's persistent lawfare.

Instead, America largely rejected the barrage of propaganda and negative coverage directed toward the Republican nominee, including outlandish comparisons to Adolf Hitler and desperate warnings of fascism.

Even with the most prominent news networks behind it, the Democratic Party still failed in its mission to instill widespread fear among Americans about the prospect of a second Trump administration.

So while the lights may still be on — for now — at the once-powerful media giants, Trump's landslide victory undoubtedly marks the greatest decline in their influence to date. The election results even prompted Elon Musk, a now-Trump supporter who voted predominantly Democrat in the past, to declare to the public, "You are the media now."

Whether the reporters at the legacy media outlets will continue with their bogeyman narratives of Trump throughout his upcoming presidency remains to be seen. Though this scenario seems the most likely, at least for the moment, this holiday season provides a brief respite from the fearmongering as these wildly out-of-touch networks evaluate their missteps and strategize on how to bail out their collective sinking ship.

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Close to ninety percent of the coverage of Trump leading up to the election was negative in the legacy media.  That was a clear demonstration of just how out of touch they were with voters.  Since then, after Trump got a sweeping victory, some have tried to make amends for their ridiculous allegations of Trump being another Hitler and his supporters being fascists.  At the Prarie Pundit, I never bought into that nonsense.  If you had just examined Trump's record when he was president, it would have refuted the allegation.

See also:

MSNBC Continues to Crash and Burn, With No Idea What to Do

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