The establishment media’s control over framing the election narrative is “shattered,” Axios’s Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen acknowledged Monday.
The report confirms Gallup polling that shows Americans’ trust in the media is at an all-time low. For years, the media has pushed false narratives that involved Hunter Biden’s laptop story, Russian collusion, the source of the 2020 pandemic, the January 6 investigation, and numerous other hoaxes.
It appears the decision by many papers to abandon the tradition of candidate endorsement was guided at least in part by the market forces hammering the media.
Kamala alone is good reason to take a pass but some owners have decided that in a tough market it no longer makes sense to alienate a huge segment of the public by reporting your bias rather than the truth.
Jeff Bezos says yes: No One Trusts Journalists and It’s Journalist’s Fault
We must be accurate, and we must be believed to be accurate. It’s a bitter pill to swallow, but we are failing on the second requirement. Most people believe the media is biased. Anyone who doesn’t see this is paying scant attention to reality, and those who fight reality lose. Reality is an undefeated champion. It would be easy to blame others for our long and continuing fall in credibility (and, therefore, decline in impact), but a victim mentality will not help. Complaining is not a strategy. We must work harder to control what we can control to increase our credibility.
Thankfully The Star, a mouthpiece of the Liberal gov’t and the recipient of involuntary tax payer funding, explains that the Washington Post and LA Times are bending the knee in fear of TrumpHitler who surely will silence all critical media! Case closed. Science settled. You are Hitler.
Billionaire owners of Washington Post and L.A. Times are bending the knee to Donald Trump
… The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times — or more precisely the billionaire owners of those papers — announced late last week that they won’t endorse a candidate in the presidential election now only days away. Both organizations issued statements along the lines of “not telling our readers how to vote.” But it’s not much of a leap to conclude their owners are worried about retribution against their other business interests if they endorse Kamala Harris (as their editorial staffs wanted to do) and Donald Trump is elected.
Oh my … h/t DS
