Slow collapse of the MSM shows the majority of Americans waking up to the reality that biased national media is indeed the enemy of the American people

In the late 1970s the national American media had the trust of the majority of the people, but as they gravitated to the left of the political aisle over the years, that trust slowly dwindled, and by the end of 2023 only 7% of adults have a “great deal” of trust in news media, with 38% saying they have “none at all.”

In 2015, after Donald Trump announced his candidacy for President, the media became the “enemy of the people.” Not because Trump called them that, but because to stop Trump from being elected instead of Hillary Clinton, they started pushing fake news.

This isn’t opinion, it was documented with links, and screen shots, by Sharyl Attkisson, where she kindly referred to the false news presented by the MSM as “mistakes”. No less than 151 items from August 2016 to January 16, 2021, with an addition six added in after Trump was no long in the White House.

Please note that this doesn’t includes the lies, misrepresentations, and misinformation published from 2015 when Trump announced up until August 2016. An example of that would be the headline lies after Trump’s announcement claiming he called all Mexican’s rapists, when his actual words seen within the publications showed he mentioned that some of who come here illegally over the border are rapists.

News reports since then proved Trump right.

I would detail more of that, but I’d like to jump forward to present day, as one of the largest American news outlets, Washington Post, is now losing $100 million per year. Not only that, but their online engagement has been cut in half over the last four years.

Four years ago, the Post boasted 139 million monthly visitors. By the end of last year, it had less than 60 million.

Of that audience, less than one in five read more than a single article per month.

Top that off with the fact that in early December 2023, Washington Post Guild went on a mini strike, where 750 members walked out for a day, which almost no readers even noticed. Their demands, considering how often WaPo and other liberal news outlets lie to the American people they are supposed to inform, are outrageous.

The Guild wants a minimum salary of $100,100 for reporters, and management is offering only $73,000. The parties are also separated by annual cost-of-living demands.

WaPo is not the only outlet suffering from self-inflicted wounds.

2023 was a horrible year for national liberal media outlets, and 2024 is likely to continue that trend.

Some of the key points from a TheWrap article published on MSN:

• Broadcast, print and digital outlets collectively saw 2,681 journalism job cuts in 2023, up 48% from 1,808 in 2022 and 77% from 1,511 in 2021.
• In Nov.-Dec. alone “Condé Nast, G/O Media, Vice Media and Vox Media have all cut staff, most of whom already had layoffs earlier this year. (Vice filed for bankruptcy in June.)”
• A research study in 2022 by Northwestern University’s Medill School found that some 2,500 dailies and weeklies have shut down since 2005. The study predicted that a third of American newspapers that existed roughly two decades ago will be out of business by 2025.

Of course, the handwringing by the likes of some such as Ashanti Blaize-Hopkins, the national president of the Society of Professional Journalists, is nothing short of tone deaf.

“The health of the journalism industry is closely tied to the health of our democracy,” Blaize-Hopkins added. “When layoffs occur, the public becomes less informed, which puts our very democracy at risk.”

Still, let us all say it, America is a Republic, not a Democracy.

In my opinion, after having spent years documenting many of the MSM lies, misinformation, selectively edited video, and retractions after the fake news already filtered throughout America, the Republic is better off with less, honest media, than more dishonest media outlets.

Media defenders will claim that “mistakes take place,” but when every mistake flows in one direction, against one political party, it becomes less a mistake and clear media bias, lies to get the political result they want.

Author: Susan Duclos

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January 19, 2024