to speak directly to the American people.
Posted on 01/05/2019 1:31:16 AM PST by vannrox
One prevalent theme of 2018 was the further deterioration of the mainstream news media. The meltdown began in late 2016, after President Trump won the election. The media went into full assault mode, bashing Trump and churning out fake news at a breathtaking speed. They could not handle this new type of Republican president who aggressively went about a conservative agenda and frequently attacked the press.
But Trump fought back, taking to Twitter to speak directly to the American people. He got his message out first, before the media could report on it. The media was forced to report afterwards on his tweets, which were difficult to spin when embedded in an article word for word.
Journalists in media were so blinded by their hatred of Trump that they could not see the constant negativity was backfiring. People dropped their subscriptions to biased newspapers and cable TV. People turned to news from bloggers, Facebook friends and conservative outlets in order to avoid the bias of traditional news sources. Instead of reading The New York Times, people visited the Drudge Report online. Instead of paying for CNN and MSNBC, people watched streaming news services like Newsmax and TheBlaze. Conservative Fox News was the most-watched channel on basic cable for the 29th consecutive month. Usually, when one party is in power, the opposition’s strength grows outside of the office, such as in the media and in tech. So it’s unusual that Fox News is doing as well as it is. CARTOONS | Henry Payne View Cartoon
The phrase “fake news” became wildly popular in 2017 and 2018 as Trump repeatedly caught the media reporting dishonestly. Some of the worst offenders have been the hardest hit. In November’s ratings, CNN failed to place even one show in the top 20 for cable news shows. The New York Times suffered a 23 percent decrease in net income during the third quarter this year as compared to last year. The paper began offering voluntary buyouts in early October, in order to downsize employees.
Trust in the mainstream media continues to erode. A Gallup poll from September found that 69 percent of U.S. adults say their trust in the news media has decreased in the past decade. Only 17 percent overall “trust most news organizations,” and 67 percent overall say they “trust only some news organizations.” A substantial 45 percent referred to things like inaccuracy, bias, “fake news,” and “alternative facts” as the reason why they don’t trust the media.
Yet with all this dismal news, the mainstream media isn’t letting up on its attacks on Trump. Biased journalists would rather see their jobs disappear than stop the Trump bashing. Stories about journalists becoming delivery drivers for Amazon and turning to other odd careers are popping up.
However, the demise of the mainstream media is being slowed by the big tech giants. Google and Facebook are censoring news sources on the right. Google recently banned Western Journal and The Gateway Pundit from Google News. This will sharply curtail much of their traffic. At the same time, Google prioritizes left-leaning news sites in its search results. Facebook changed an algorithm in January of this year which resulted in greatly reducing the traffic to conservative pages. Facebook next banned some of the most popular conservative pages this year, including Right Wing News.
But while the big tech giants may have stemmed the tide a bit, they are running up against a tidal wave. While lefty journalists depend solely on their writing jobs to make a living, conservatives are much more business minded. They can work a full time job in business while contributing articles on the side to a news publication. As the layoffs of journalists continue, part-time conservative journalists are stepping in to fill the void.
For example, in Arizona, the local newspapers are declining and slowly going out of business. They are being replaced by the Arizona Daily Independent, a conservative online paper with a business model that includes unpaid, part-time contributors. ADI now covers a lot of stories that the mainstream local newspapers don’t.
Media has become a very competitive area, due to the rise of the internet allowing anyone to become a blogger with their own platform. It’s hard to compete against a self-funded conservative journalist who isn’t affected by layoffs. The mainstream media doesn’t appear to be decreasing its hatred of Trump. At this rate, look to see even more of a decline in 2019 — along with the increasing rise of conservative news.
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I’d say it better but it is early
Print-media, in general, is dying. It goes beyond newspapers. Time and Newsweak are marginally having enough subscribers to survive (it’d help if they moved out of NY City and lower salaries by 50-percent). But lets not stop there...Readers Digest and National Geographic have also gone through a decrease in readers and subscribers.
If you go and look at the National Enquirer crowd....they’ve dramatically decreased as well. You can go and ask most 16-year old boys today if they read Sports Illustrated, and the answer is NO. Sporting News, which I used to read as a kid, no longer prints anything (just a digital version) and they’ve seen cutbacks on readers.
Page has since been deleted from Clinton Foundation archives.
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AND THIS......
Journalists Dined at Top Clinton Staffers Homes Days Before Hillary’s announcement of her candidacy
Wikileaks via Breitbart ^ | October 17 2016 | Ezra Dulis / FR Posted by grey_whiskers
Several top journalists and TV news anchors RSVPed “yes” to attend a private, off-the-record gathering at the New York home of Joel Benenson, the chief campaign strategist for Hillary Clinton, two days before she announced her candidacy in 2015, according to emails Wikileaks published from John Podesta’s accounts.
The guest list for an earlier event at the home of her campaign manager, John Podesta, was limited to reporters who were expected to cover Clinton on the campaign trail. —snip—
ITEM-—Wikileaks revealed earlier that late night talk host Stephen Colbert, and his team at Comedy Central, were making TV episodes at the request or order of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) back in April of 2013. So, viewers thought they were vote-smart because they’re informed by a comedian, yet same said comedian was doing Hillary’s bidding the whole time.
ITEM——Talk hosts Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Bill Maher, Seth Myers, Trevor Noah and Conan O’Brien better have their lawyers on retainer and speed dial.
ITEM....that the DNC and the Clintons were directly working with members of the media and their writing staff during the 2016 Presidential election, they could be charged with violating Federal election laws.
I wouldn’t say the MSM met any kind of demise in 2018. IMHO it was gone long before. It was bad leading up to the obama years, but basically checked out completely somewhere early on in there. There hasn’t been a mainstream “media” in probably a decade. All it is now is the propaganda arm of the leftist/fascist/globalist movement.
I predict this will be an interesting year for the media. I am a conservative ... so I hit the mute button when Obama comes on, Pelosi, Schumer, etc (And my mute button just stopped working this week, need a new remote). But as I listen to the “conservative” outlets, all I see are Democrat video clips, these may last 30 seconds, then the hosts talk about how “bad it is”. I’m not going to be spending my time this year looking at Democrat video clips. I’m predicting many will do as I’m doing, and just turn to music and reading or outside activities. I think the media is going to take a hit, no use in watching something that upsets you and that you can do NOTHING about. (Except vote every 2 years!)
I wouldn’t say the MSM met any kind of demise in 2018. IMHO it was gone long before.
Yeah she’s like 20 years later figuring it out. Hell remember the Bill Clinton era where the media didn’t know anything about the blue dress? Then the blue dress, in all its glory, was produced. Instantly the narrative flipped to it wasn’t sex. lol
Wow. Maria Bartiromo.
At the time, the foundation was a status symbol of do-good charity....many joined not knowing how crooked it was.
As mentioned, the page has been deleted from foundation archives——no doubt at the request of the journos.
CNN must be outraged at FDR’s fireside chats. How dare he bypassed the media.
Its like pre-internet twitter.
Probably not...
But the media of the day carried the chats.
(I wonder if ‘analysis’ of what he REALLY said took place afterward?)
theygave him the airtime, they weren’t doing color commentary or asking him questions after.
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