Trump’s win signals the end of the left’s
control of the mainstream media
American Thinker,
by
Patricia McCarthy
Original Article
Posted By: Hazymac,
11/24/2024 2:00:56 PM
Trump’s electoral victory has advanced the demise of MSNBC and CNN for good reason.
The fall of NBC, ABC, and CBS should follow.
Each of these so-called news outlets has betrayed their viewers for as long as they have been on the air. They consistently misled their viewers day after day to the point that Trump’s victory was a major shock to their systems. Those blinkered viewers sadly believed what those networks told them -- that Trump could not possibly win, that Harris would win in a landslide. They misled their viewers so egregiously that those who only watched those outlets were understandably shocked by Trump’s win.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
SweetPea3 11/24/2024 2:13:11 PM (No. 1842064)
Don't bet on it. I'm not buying any of these articles about the end of the 0bamas, liberal press, wokeism, etc. Nope.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Northcross 11/24/2024 2:35:26 PM (No. 1842071)
I agree heartily with #1. The secular forces have too much at stake to just meekly walk away. They still have virtually total control over many American institutions such as the media, academia, and Hollywood.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
jalo1951 11/24/2024 2:44:14 PM (No. 1842074)
I certainly don't think it is the end but they have been cut off at their knees. And their credibility is at issue. My main concern was the fact that they looked into the camera, all of them, and swore that FJB had no dementia problem, swore he was the best he has ever been, political genius who was running rings around everyone in the room. They lied until the cows came home and lied some more. We all have family or friends who suffer from a dementia condition. We know it when we see it and still they persisted in telling us we were wrong in our conclusion. After all the gaffs and mistakes and disasters on video that we all saw. I do not watch the msm but I knew what they were saying and pushing on the voters. I believe nothing that comes out of their mouths and never will trust them. So they called Trump Hitler and every other bad guy they could think of. I guess they forgot a lot of us actually know world history. They cannot be trusted to tell the truth. It escalated with covid, piled on with the BS climate change and then they lost it completely with abc123 sexually confused people. But they are not through because they still believe they were right and they must reeducate us and steer us down the liberal/progressive path. They will regroup and we will be waiting.
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No, the msm is still the same propaganda drivel.
What’s happened is the demand for real news was unsatisfied and found supply elsewhere.
The msm survives in cable company bundling. Let people pick their channels and dump abccbsnbcpbscnnmsnbc.
Should be first order of business for the FCC is to outlaw bundling and let people pick the channels they want.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
DVC 11/24/2024 3:31:58 PM (No. 1842092)
Now, if the NYT could just collapse financially and either just disappear for good, or be converted into an actual news source with two sides of each issue, that would be a huge boon to the country.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 11/24/2024 3:43:24 PM (No. 1842094)
The MSM got a bloody nose but is far from dead. There are still millions of people who faithfully watch the newtwork news every night and believe every word of it. Kamalala got more than 220 electors. Not a good showing but not a McGovern/Carter/Mondale/Dukakis level wipeout.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
tech10171968 11/24/2024 3:58:09 PM (No. 1842096)
I have a different take: I think the left still controls mainstream media. The real difference is that they've lost control of the *narrative*. As the article correctly points out, people basically got so tired of being gaslit and fed BS by the MSM that they turned to alternative sources for their news (social media/Fox/Newsmax/et al).
Why else would DJT do an interview with Joe Rogan (at the suggestion of his son)?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
The Remnants 11/24/2024 5:01:10 PM (No. 1842123)
I was happy to see that Comcast was uncoupling from MSNBC because people are sick and tired of all the hate that comes from the people on MSNBC.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 11/24/2024 5:13:09 PM (No. 1842128)
I think the Left "controlling" the media is a misstatement. The media is a willing part of the Left. They share the same ideas and opinions. However, the components of the media are separate corporate entities with fiscal responsibilities to their shareholders, like any company. The actions of the media are causing their profitability to collapse. Further, because of the damage they have done to themselves, there are no viable plans that will save them. They are dying and their use to the Left is over. AND, the public KNOWS what they media has been doing and thinks they have NO credibility. THAT is why they have been ineffective in swaying public opinion. No one is listening to them.
So, the dems have been voted out. The media is rapidly imploding. As soon as Trump is inaugurated, the Deep State will be on life support. The pillars of the Left's power are crumbling. Their "control" of anything is fading away. As it does, their previous actions will be uncovered and we will know the depths of their betrayals. That knowledge will vaccinate us against their return anytime soon.
There is only one thing we have to do to make it all happen. Go after them and hold them accountable. No mercy!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 11/24/2024 5:32:13 PM (No. 1842129)
The new world order peasants are programmed to keep going to the death in this life. While Obie and Mike might be passe these days, liberalism and the msm still aren't gone. Their sponsors, lefty corporatism, will sustain them. The battle between the old order and the new world order will rage on and expand. Until the Rapture. But lefty non-believers, your souls won't be invited.
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I wouldn't be too hasty about declaring the end.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
mc squared 11/24/2024 6:40:19 PM (No. 1842146)
Wow!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
DVC 11/24/2024 7:07:25 PM (No. 1842158)
I'll bet that there isn't one iota of change in ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS or NYT. Possibly the ComPost may be forced by Bezos to change, and perhaps CNN and MSNBC may be under enough financial pressure to change. LAT? Perhaps, the new owner is at least talking a good game.
But most of the Enemedia today will still be the Enemedia in a year.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
cThree 11/24/2024 11:47:32 PM (No. 1842246)
If progressives aren't bothered that vicious felons are literally flown into the U.S., and if they're not bothered that Soros prosecutors repeatedly release these felons to victimize Americans, why would these progressives be bothered that a "convicted felon" should be elected President?
Shouldn't they be satisfied to know "sometimes things happen"?
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#9 correctly points out that media are not mere hired guns - they are part of the ideological collective ie the hive mind.
Speaking of hired, the problem is larger than a dyed-and-made-up harpy sneering at the public through a camera lens. Most if not all of these media entities have sugar daddies and rich uncles. Comcast, Disney, Viacom, Time Warner et al. They've been throwing good money after bad for some time but it's obviously worth having the means of propaganda and simply being power players in DC.
It's also worth noting that these entities also have studios, production facilities and, crucially, even own or control the means of transmission - cable, satellite, internet, cellular. It is a top-to-bottom antitrust nightmare. Chinese state TV can only dream of this sort of information silo. But our FCC, FTC and Congress won't touch it with a barge pole.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 11/25/2024 8:30:11 AM (No. 1842351)
I'd like to agree with you, Patricia. But the last thing that the msm will allow is public disapproval of its news products. Their news hour indoctrinators and advertisers will see to it. They know that much of their audience consist of ignorant sheep who can't and won't think for themselves and rely on what to think and when to think it while the gummint goodies and free money continue to roll in the door.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
janjan 11/25/2024 8:47:36 AM (No. 1842366)
The leftist media isn’t going away. The networks, CNN, MSNBC are all way too infested with liberal ideology for any meaningful change to happen. But their credibility is very low, their ability to influence voters is rapidly fading, and their viewership is cratering. If that were not so Kamala would have won. Podcasts and alternative media will fill the void.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
JimBob 11/25/2024 9:49:18 AM (No. 1842424)
So many good posts!
To me, the Left IS the Lamestream media, when looking at the people writing the stories, selecting what does -and what does not- get reported, and the 'talking head' news readers ('presenters' as they call them in Britain). Are they a division of the Democ'RAT party, or is the Party a division of the Lamestreams? I do not know. I think it is one big family, drunk on political power and united in the common goal of destroying the America as a free country with limited government. They all want to RULE, not govern.
My belief is that there are a fair number of normal people -the engineers and technicians actually making the machinery work- but they have to keep their views to themselves or lose their jobs.
The difference is that there is now enough alternative media to sway the opinion of those interested enough to seek it out. However for 'the masses' (as the Communists call them) who just blindly watch or listen -and believe what they're being told- nothing has changed.
I think that Kammie lost because she was a uniquely poor candidate. Biden chose her as his 'insurance policy', just as Zero chose Biden. When the 'Rats (Obama/Schumer/Pelosi etc.) forced Biden to withdraw, he retaliated by giving his delegates to Kammie, thus sinking the 'Rats for this election.
On the other hand, if the 'Rats had selected someone who was a better speaker -a better liar- they may have easily won. The difference in many states was only a couple of percent. Such is the combined power of the Lamestreams.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Zigrid 11/25/2024 9:54:35 AM (No. 1842429)
Poster #2...as for media..they are losing viewers...and academia is struggling for applicants...and as for Hollywood...when did they have a film at theaters that anyone wanted to see....and their endorsement of the "word salad"...they couldn't get her into the Oval Office...and turned more Americans to MAGA than ever before...so I'm thinking that the lefties that have caused four years of chaos are not in a very good position now....
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 11/25/2024 10:25:04 AM (No. 1842458)
Since the broadcast networks (not cable) use public controlled air waves they legally are required to provide for the good of the public, back in the 1950s they used to have to prove that. Obviously they have not been doing that for a long time. They need to lose the rights to our frequencies.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Venturer 11/25/2024 10:33:39 AM (No. 1842466)
BS. The liberals OWN the media
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