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By Jeff Reynolds
For once, the Right and the Left agree: It’s time to sign the papers and pull the plug on the mainstream media.
The 2024 election cycle had many remarkable elements. Perhaps none captured the spirit of the age, the utter collapse of the regime narrative, and the thorough ransacking of the legacy media’s control on information quite like this post-Election Day anecdote from the New York Times. The corporate gatekeepers of the Official Regime Narrative™ turned their newsroom into a circus—literally. According to a report by Heather MacDonald at City Journal:
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Before the election, the New York Times newsroom had brought in popcorn and cotton candy machines, fake sparklers, and goodie bags in anticipation of the coronation of “Madame President.” On November 6, the popcorn machine stood unceremoniously in a corner behind yellow police tape and an orange rubber traffic cone. Undaunted, executive editor Joseph Kahn and managing editors Marc Lacey and Carolyn Ryan sent a memo to their colleagues on November 6 praising the paper’s election coverage.
This revealing anecdote stands alone as the most potent example of how out of touch the media has gotten with its customer base. And its customer base responded in ways that should, but probably won’t, frighten corporate media bosses into a soul-searching after-action report to determine where they went wrong and how to fix it. MacDonald concluded her article by accurately referring to the legacy media as impotent, blinkered, and unrepentant. And they still don’t know what happened on Nov. 5.
The Media Missed the Greatest Political Comeback in a Century
Donald Trump, in completing possibly America’s greatest political comeback after four years in political purgatory, won the popular vote with more votes than any Republican candidate in history. He won the Electoral College vote—the only tally that matters—by leaving the vaunted Blue Wall in shambles. Trump seized the electoral votes of the normally reliably blue states of Michigan and Wisconsin, while also sweeping the swing states of Pennsylvania, Nevada, and Arizona. Trump won despite a 3–1 spending advantage for Kamala Harris, Big Tech censorship on a scale we’d never before seen, debates openly rigged for his opponent(s), multiple attempts to throw him in jail or have him shot, the entire array of the Deep State institutions aligned against him, non-stop propaganda about his supposed “fascist” plans, and every other gun—both literal and figurative—trained on him in order to stop him.
The institutional left thought they had this in the bag. Their ace in the hole? The corporate media ecosystem, over which they had complete control. They controlled the message. They controlled the narrative, and the narrators. They controlled what was reported—and what was left out.
But a funny thing happened on the way to dragging Trump through the mainstream media mud. The voters saw through their slime. According to Brent Bozell of Media Research Center, only seven percent of Americans trust the news—fully 93 percent hold the media in such low regard they will not listen to its messages.
The leftist media’s coverage of Donald Trump was 85% negative, even after someone shot him in the head.
Americans’ trust in the media is the lowest in recorded history.
The media’s negative coverage of Donald Trump backfired.@BrentBozell @Marklevinshow @FoxNews pic.twitter.com/xcIkoEklwp
— Media Research Center (@theMRC) November 11, 2024
The Left and the Right Unite in Their Distrust of the Media
The Right has railed against the exclusively radical, “progressive” bias in mainstream media for decades, and rightly so. We have more examples than we can count to demonstrate the utter lack of fairness or honesty in coverage. Since the Obama years, however, we’ve seen them take it much further with their campaigns against what they call “misinformation” or “disinformation,” which generally boils down to opinions from the Right they refuse to acknowledge or consider.
Something has shifted since Nov. 5, however, on the Left. They’ve begun to realize the reasons their control over the dominant narrative has disintegrated. In a series of revealing post-mortem accounts of Kamala’s loss, the New Republic does some deep dives into how the Left lost control of the message. Their analysis points to the conservative media ecosystem as having gained superiority for the first time in recent memory:
