Anonymous ID: 0658c0 Nov. 5, 2024, 2:57 a.m. No.21907052   🗄️.is đź”—kun

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/no-matter-final-vote-elections-biggest-loser-may-be-legacy-news-media

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A Gallup Poll revealed last month that a record low of only 31% of voters expressed a “great deal” or “fair amount” of confidence in the media to report the news “fully, accurately and fairly,” while a larger 36% expressed no confidence at all in traditional newspaper, TV and radio coverage, Another third expressed “not very much” confidence in the professional media. Gallup noted the trend of an increasingly unpopular media has been years in the making, dating to the advent of the Trump era if not earlier.

 

The 2024 election provided a chance for traditional media reporters to reverse the slump. Instead they doubled down on a coverage so anti-Trump (85% according to the Media Research Center) and slanted and inaccurate that it made public sentiment worse.

 

Anchors "fact checked" candidates with inaccurate information. Headlines, town halls and stories revealed a clear bias toward Democrats and against Republicans. And reporters did one of the biggest switcharoos in American electoral history when – after months of insisting President Biden was not cognitively impaired – they had to acknowledge in the end that Old Joe was, well, old and forgetful and confused after a disastrous June debate with Trump.

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“The media has lost a great deal of credibility by and large,” New York pollster John McLaughlin, whose clients include Trump, told Just the News.

 

“But there are some people, you know, they're looking for the truth and just the news. And there's many other media outlets that are trying to emerge, that are trying to be fair, you know, and that's all there is. They want fairness,” McLaughlin added in an interview on the John Solomon Reports podcast.

 

The failure – or at least the perception of failure – to deliver that kind of fairness or open-mindedness may convince historians that legacy news media was this election’s biggest loser. It may also embolden Trump – should he win – to carry out that plan hatched in summer 2020.