The realization is finally hitting some on the Left. Americans no longer care what they think, nor do we pay attention to their minions.
Hardest hit has been the media.
From the day Trump declared the media, “fake news”, we’ve seen the constant and considerable decline thereof. Year after year, viewership, readership, even listenership has dwindled. At the current rate, the media may disappear altogether within a decade.
These are the September numbers according to AdWeek:
MSNBC was the No. 2 cable news network in primetime and total day in September, with 1.430 million and 921,000 viewers, respectively. The A25-54 demo had 165,000 viewers in primetime and 99,000 viewers during total day.
Compared to August, MSNBC was down -22% in total viewers and -33% in the demo during primetime. It was also down -10% in total viewers and -18% in the demo during total day.
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During primetime in September, CNN had 853,000 total viewers and 180,000 A25-54 viewers. When looking at total day, it had 541,000 total viewers and 99,000 demo viewers.
Compared to the previous month, CNN was down -21% in total viewers and -25% in the demo during primetime. The network was also down -12% and -20% in total viewers and the demo, respectively, during total day. When looking at its performance to the same month in 2023 during primetime, it was up +56% in total viewers and +65% in the demo. In total day, CNN grew by +18% and +16% in total viewers and the demo, respectively.
CNN finished as the No. 4 network during primetime and total day. Its position in the demo was also No. 4 in primetime and tied with MSNBC for third in total day.
While some of this can be attributed to the availability of so many media sources, the real culprit is the media itself.
But let’s not downplay Trump bringing to the attention of Americans that the media is mostly fabricated propaganda of the government.
Brian Stelter, now back at CNN said the obvious out loud:
Anonymous TV exec: “If half the country has decided that Trump is qualified to be president, that means they’re not reading any of this media, and we’ve lost this audience completely. A Trump victory means mainstream media is dead in its current form.” https://t.co/zWiIqKYx1b
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) October 30, 2024
I’ve written and spoken many times on this issue. I declared recently that the media has one chance to save itself. And that can be accomplished by simply telling the truth.
The Left claim that there are two sides on all our issues. And this is true. There is the Left and then there is the truth.
How many lies did the media propagate during the Biden administration? It’s honestly too many to count. And we aren’t talking little lies. Let’s begin with Biden’s mental health.
Notwithstanding Biden’s constant falling, but what of his obvious mental decline. Only now does the media admit that “maybe” there was something wrong. Which brings me to the next obvious lie.
Is Kamala Harris really that popular?
To watch Michael Steele pretend that Harris was as popular as 2008 Obama really showed Americans how far the media was willing to go to sell a lie. The least popular VP in modern history transformed into the most popular candidate within days.
Do they honestly think they sold that nonsense? But what of her competence?
Exactly how many cases did Harris prosecute as a DA and AG? She claimed hundreds, but when fact-checked she lied through her teeth. In her entire career, she might have barely hit double-digits in prosecutions. But to hear her tell it, well it sounds like something Biden would say.
The media challenged Harris on little if anything. And most of her interviews were orchestrated. At one point, the media covered Harris positively 78 percent of the time, and Trump negatively 85 percent of the time. And by today’s journalistic standards, those percentages are considered fair.
I have practically stopped referencing the fake news sites. I now get 90 percent of my news from Elon Musk’s platform X. And as they continue to refine the site, I can see that number increasing.
The fake news media as we know it today is “dead man walking”. Social media influencers now dwarf the major media outlets and one person can earn more than the entire newsroom personnel. So much for the so-called “journalists”.
People think for themselves these days, now that we realize that most of our news is propaganda. That’s not going to change back to buggy-whip news of yesteryear.
