The problem the country faces is the loss of credibility of the old media outlets (the networks, cnn, nytimes, washpost, msnbc, etc). It takes time for people to understand that most if not nearly all journalists of integrity have left the old media and are working on sites like substack, and via podcasts. It is probably already true ho…
The problem the country faces is the loss of credibility of the old media outlets (the networks, cnn, nytimes, washpost, msnbc, etc). It takes time for people to understand that most if not nearly all journalists of integrity have left the old media and are working on sites like substack, and via podcasts. It is probably already true however that 18 months later, more people are now getting their news from the new sources than from the old media. The Greenwalds and the Rogans and Kirks and Weisses and the Taibbis, are generating enormous box office, at the direct expense of the old media.
The old outlets were caught lying so often, and so flagrantly, that people have simply stopped watching them. You can't tell the country that the President is a traitor, as CNN and MSNBC did for years; or that he used foreign aid for personal reasons, while video of Biden clearly using foreign aid for personal reasons is ignored and even publicly buried; or that capital policeman Brian Sicknick was bludgeoned to death with a fire extinguisher and then somehow not follow up on the biggest story in the world for months, only to then announce... "oh, that never occurred at all." Seriously? You couldn't find out about the biggest story on Earth? For months? "Mostly Peaceful Demonstrations" and "Let's Go Brandon" became memes of global proportions. Then censorship started around C19 and that was the last straw. These were such flagrant violations of the most bedrock, fundamental American sensibilities that yeah..... people turned off those outlets and never went back.
So when people saw the flagrant inconsistencies and unprecedented events happening before their eyes, and the same media that said "The President is a traitor," "Sicknick was bludgeoned," "Ukraine aid was an illegal act," "Smollett is innocent and so is Foxx, and you have to believe it or you're a racist,""Ritterhouse murdered innocent protestors"............... when that media said 'this is the most secure election in history" they simply were not to be believed.
People no longer believe the old media, because the old media lied in their faces for too long. Once people determine someone is a liar, the people turn away - always. And the exposed liar can never regain their standing in society.
Ratings are only one method of learning this, although they are indeed unbelievably low. Have some general conversations with people you know, not just your friends but associates, and you will find a broad shift to the new media outlets has already occurred. It will only accelerate.
The problem the country faces is the loss of credibility of the old media outlets (the networks, cnn, nytimes, washpost, msnbc, etc). It takes time for people to understand that most if not nearly all journalists of integrity have left the old media and are working on sites like substack, and via podcasts. It is probably already true however that 18 months later, more people are now getting their news from the new sources than from the old media. The Greenwalds and the Rogans and Kirks and Weisses and the Taibbis, are generating enormous box office, at the direct expense of the old media.
The old outlets were caught lying so often, and so flagrantly, that people have simply stopped watching them. You can't tell the country that the President is a traitor, as CNN and MSNBC did for years; or that he used foreign aid for personal reasons, while video of Biden clearly using foreign aid for personal reasons is ignored and even publicly buried; or that capital policeman Brian Sicknick was bludgeoned to death with a fire extinguisher and then somehow not follow up on the biggest story in the world for months, only to then announce... "oh, that never occurred at all." Seriously? You couldn't find out about the biggest story on Earth? For months? "Mostly Peaceful Demonstrations" and "Let's Go Brandon" became memes of global proportions. Then censorship started around C19 and that was the last straw. These were such flagrant violations of the most bedrock, fundamental American sensibilities that yeah..... people turned off those outlets and never went back.
So when people saw the flagrant inconsistencies and unprecedented events happening before their eyes, and the same media that said "The President is a traitor," "Sicknick was bludgeoned," "Ukraine aid was an illegal act," "Smollett is innocent and so is Foxx, and you have to believe it or you're a racist,""Ritterhouse murdered innocent protestors"............... when that media said 'this is the most secure election in history" they simply were not to be believed.
People no longer believe the old media, because the old media lied in their faces for too long. Once people determine someone is a liar, the people turn away - always. And the exposed liar can never regain their standing in society.
Ratings are only one method of learning this, although they are indeed unbelievably low. Have some general conversations with people you know, not just your friends but associates, and you will find a broad shift to the new media outlets has already occurred. It will only accelerate.