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Mainstream media’s influence waning fast
The American Spectator:
Voters ignore anti-Trump narratives as traditional news loses its grip on public opinion.

Mainstream media’s influence waning fast
The American Spectator: Voters ignore anti-Trump narratives as traditional news loses its grip on public opinion.
The 2024 presidential election results reveal the diminishing influence of legacy mainstream media, whose relentless campaign against Donald Trump - unprecedented in scale and hostility - has largely backfired.
Over half of American voters have shown that they’re no longer swayed by the daily narratives from ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, and PBS. They’re no longer buying what’s published in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal (editorial page excepted), or other prominent outlets. Trump’s decisive victory underscores the waning power of this era’s “Yellow Journalism,” though it’s doubtful the media will change course.
But it’s not just the media’s ideological stance that has eroded public trust; it’s also the condescending attitude many mainstream outlets display toward everyday Americans. Those who hold traditional values or come from middle America are often portrayed as backward, “dangerous,” or “uneducated.” Such dismissive arrogance has only widened the divide, reinforcing the belief that the media serves an elite echo chamber rather than the American public.
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Now, however, the legacy media competes with a vast landscape of alternative news sources: Joe Rogan, Tucker Carlson, Steve Bannon’s War Room, Charlie Kirk, The Free Press, Newsmax, Real America’s Voice, Breitbart, Substack, Elon Musk’s X, Fox News, The American Spectator, and more. This diverse media ecosystem has given Americans choices, challenging the narratives and viewpoints of legacy media in ways unimaginable just a few decades ago.
Commentary:
As I've previously written Legacy media is no longer able to compete and lie to the public.
It used to be said that you could not compete or go after the newspapers because they can drown you in barrels of printers ink.
Those days seem to be long passed.
Even Democrats are now angry at the Legacy media....
There are new choices to garner information and if the media will not give the truth to the people, the people will go else where and allow them to wither on the vine.