I am a journalist. I haven’t been on the air in years but still freelance articles.
My feeling is that newspaper owners took a look at that election map and realized their business model is to sell to a minority. If they want to survive, they’re going to have to start covering and presenting real news to a wider audience.
Also, and very importantly, if they’re watching Trump, and covering his presidency, no one will take their criticisms seriously. The public is now obviously immune to their Trump bashing. If they want to present legitimate reporting on Trump’s presidency, they’re going to have to start appearing fair and balanced. Otherwise, perceived fair criticisms will never be taken seriously. They’ve set a horrible precedence that anything they say about Trump is a lie, with the purpose of destroying him. They’re now in a position where they can’t convince the public that anything they say is legitimate.
Newspapers and most media are just mountains of lies, and they know we know it.
I’m truly doubtful they’ll ever be able to change our perceptions of them no matter what they do. It’s too late.
Some of them have realized that their focus on identity politics has been a failed strategy. The majority of resentful Americans are not listening to them anymore and are looking to alternatives rather than to legacy media. The scamdemic helped to fuel that shift.
We will have to wait and see whether they can turn their ships back around to a more balanced style of reporting. Without a complete gutting of their organizations, I doubt they will be able to change. It will take time to regain trust after they have so alienated the majority of Americans who seem unlikely to ever trust them again. As you stated so well, they have made themselves irrelevant with their biased propaganda and many Americans have simply moved on.
I am a journalist. I haven’t been on the air in years but still freelance articles.
My feeling is that newspaper owners took a look at that election map and realized their business model is to sell to a minority. If they want to survive, they’re going to have to start covering and presenting real news to a wider audience.
Also, and very importantly, if they’re watching Trump, and covering his presidency, no one will take their criticisms seriously. The public is now obviously immune to their Trump bashing. If they want to present legitimate reporting on Trump’s presidency, they’re going to have to start appearing fair and balanced. Otherwise, perceived fair criticisms will never be taken seriously. They’ve set a horrible precedence that anything they say about Trump is a lie, with the purpose of destroying him. They’re now in a position where they can’t convince the public that anything they say is legitimate.
Newspapers and most media are just mountains of lies, and they know we know it.
I’m truly doubtful they’ll ever be able to change our perceptions of them no matter what they do. It’s too late.
Then again, Americans have short memories.
Some of them have realized that their focus on identity politics has been a failed strategy. The majority of resentful Americans are not listening to them anymore and are looking to alternatives rather than to legacy media. The scamdemic helped to fuel that shift.
We will have to wait and see whether they can turn their ships back around to a more balanced style of reporting. Without a complete gutting of their organizations, I doubt they will be able to change. It will take time to regain trust after they have so alienated the majority of Americans who seem unlikely to ever trust them again. As you stated so well, they have made themselves irrelevant with their biased propaganda and many Americans have simply moved on.