Axios Admits Establishment Media Lost Control of Election Narrativeoct, 28, 2024

The establishment media’s control over framing the election narrative is “shattered,” Axios’s Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen acknowledged Monday.

The report confirms Gallup polling that shows Americans’ trust in the media is at an all-time low. For years, the media has pushed false narratives that involved Hunter Biden’s laptop story, Russian collusion, the source of the 2020 pandemic, the January 6 investigation, and numerous other hoaxes.

=Breitbart News’s John Nolte catalogued this list of media hoaxes:

Russia Collusion Hoax

Hands Up, Don’t Shoot Hoax

Jussie Smollett Hoax

Covington KKKids Hoax

Very Fine People Hoax

Seven-Hour Gap Hoax

Russian Bounties Hoax

Trump Trashes Troops Hoax

Policemen Killed at Mostly Peaceful January 6 Protest Hoax

Rittenhouse Hoax

Eating While Black Hoax

Border Agents Whipping Illegals Hoax

NASCAR Noose Hoax

The Georgia Jim Crow 2.0 Hoax

Trump Assaulted Secret Service Agents and Grabbed Steering Wheel of Beast Hoax

MAGA Assaulted Paul Pelosi Hoax

COVID Lab Leak Theory Is Racist Hoax

Hunter Biden’s Laptop Is Russian Disinformation Hoax

Joe Biden Will Never Ban Gas Stoves Hoax

COVID Deaths are Over-Counted Is a Conspiracy Theory Hoax

Mass Graves of Native Children in Canada Hoax

The Trump Killed All the Fish Hoax

Trump Told People to Drink Bleach Hoax

Hamas Hospital Hoax

If Reelected, Trump Will Execute People Hoax

The Alfa Bank Hoax

Libs of TikTok Murdered Non-Binary Teen Hoax

The Aaron Rodgers Sandy Hook-Truther Hoax

The ‘Bloodbath’ Hoax

The establishment media’s “dominance in narrative- and reality-shaping in presidential elections shattered in 2024,” due to the rise of alternative media in the era of new technology, streaming services, podcasts, and the liberated platform of X, VandeHei and Allen reported:

Both campaignshave targeted small, often little-appreciated shards to reach hyper-specific pockets of potential voters. The campaigns are doing this with unorthodox, sometimes lengthy media appearances and precision ad targeting.

Former President Trump reached way more potential male voters with his three-hour Rogan conversation (33 million views over the weekend) than he could have with a dozen or more appearances on Fox News, CNN and MSNBC combined. All three cable news networks skew very old in viewership, with median ages ranging from 67 to 70.

Vice President Kamala Harris reached more young women on Alex Cooper’s “Call Her Daddy” podcast, a show about sex and relationships, than she could on CBS’ “60 Minutes” and ABC’s “The View” combined. Both shows skew very old, too.

Americans’ trust in the establishment media to report current events “fully, accurately and fairly” plummeted to a record low in 2024, Gallup polling found in October. Only 31 percent of Americans have a “great deal” or “fair amount” of confidence in the media to tell the truth, one point below its low watermark of 32 percent in 2016 and 2023.

Gallup reported its findings:

Americans continue to register record-low trust in the mass media, with 31% expressing a “great deal” or “fair amount” of confidence in the media to report the news “fully, accurately and fairly,” similar to last year’s 32%. ==Americans’ trust in the media — such as newspapers, television and radio — first fell to 32% in 2016 and did so again last year.=+

For the third consecutive year, more U.S. adults have no trust at all in the media (36%) than trust it a great deal or fair amount. Another 33% of Americans express “not very much” confidence..

As has been the case historically, partisans have different levels of confidence in the media to report the news fully, accurately and fairly. Currently, 54% of Democrats, 27% of independents and 12% of Republicans say they have a great deal or fair amount of trust in the media. Independents’ trust matches the record low in 2022, while Democrats’ and Republicans’ are statistically similar to their historical low points.

Americans’ trust in the media in the 1970s ranged from the low 70s to the high 60s but sank to the low 50s in the Bush administration. During the Obama administration, it hovered above 40 percent and tanked to its lowest mark with the rise of former President Donald Trump.

(https://www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/10/28/axios-admits-establishment-media-lost-control-election-narrative/

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Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos wants conservative writers

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Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos has reportedly given the newspaper a mandate to add more conservative voices to its opinion section — even as he remains silent over the broadsheet’s decision not to endorse a candidate in the 2024 presidential election.

Bezos — the world’s second richest person with a fortune that Bloomberg Billionaires Index valued at $211 billion as of Monday —is keen on gaining a more ideologically diverse readership by expanding his newspaper’s reach among right-leaning audiences, according to a report in The New York Times.

The Amazon founder, meanwhile, has remained silent over the non-endorsement controversy. He has not spoken publicly amid protests from high-level staffers and prominent figures such as Watergate reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.

Marty Baron, who was executive editor of the newspaper when Bezos bought the Washington Post more than a decade ago, denounced the move as an act of “cowardice.”

Washington Post staffers were reeling over Bezos’ decision to block the Harris endorsement, a draft of which was said to be all typed up and ready for publication.

The newspaper’s own reporters published an article which claimed that Bezos himself made the decision to veto the endorsement — a move that raised eyebrows since it broke with a tradition of 36 years less than two weeks before the election.

Bezos hired ex-Wall Street Journal boss Will Lewis as his chief executive— despite protests from journalists at the newspaper who cited his alleged involvement in the UK phone hacking scandal.

Lewis, who said it was him and not Bezos who killed the endorsement, wrote a column in which he said that the decision was actually a return to a tradition the paper had years ago of not endorsing candidates.

He said it was “consistent with the values the Post has always stood for” and it reflected the paper’s faith in “our readers’ ability to make up their own minds.”

“We recognize that this will be read in a range of ways, including as a tacit endorsement of one candidate, or as a condemnation of another, or as an abdication of responsibility. That is inevitable,” Lewis wrote.

“We don’t see it that way. We see it as consistent with the values the Post has always stood for and what we hope for in a leader: character and courage in service to the American ethic, veneration for the rule of law, and respect for human freedom in all its aspects.”

The decision sparked a backlash among staffers and readership — with scores of social media users proclaiming that they had cancelled their subscriptions to the paper.

One Washington Post reporter said she was left “heartbroken” when her mother cancelled her subscription over the nixed endorsement.

Robert Kagan, a member of the opinions section, resigned in protest. He said that Lewis’ explanation was “laughable” and that the decision not to endorse stemmed from an alleged deal between Bezos and former President Donald Trump.

Bezos’ space exploration company Blue Origin has contracts with the federal government to build a spacecraft to transport astronauts to and from the surface of the moon.

“This is obviously an effort by Jeff Bezos to curry favor with Donald Trump in the anticipation of his possible victory,” Kagan told CNN on Friday.

“Trump has threatened to go after Bezos’ business,” Kagan added, referring to Amazon.

The drama engulfing the Washington Post mirrors the turmoil playing out in the newsroom of the Los Angeles Times, where at least three editorial staffers resigned in protest of owner Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong’s decision to block an endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris.

Soon-Shiong’s daughter recently said that the refusal to endorse Harris stemmed from dissatisfaction over the Biden administration’s Israel policies, though the billionaire denied that this was the case.

MSNBC “Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough blasted “billionaires” who own news outlets and social media companies for “bowing to” Trump.“The anticipatory kowtowing to a guy who is saying he is going to be an autocrat is the first step,” Scarborough said on his show on Monday. His comments were reported by Mediaite.

“It’s the billionaires versus us. It is the billionaires versus ‘We, the People.’ We can win. They can have their billions and buy their newspapers, but we the people can have the final word.”

“Bezos runs one of the largest companies in America. They have tremendously intricate relations with federal government. They depend on the federal government.”

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