Donald Trump stabbed the media years ago, but it’s taken almost a decade for the wound to fester.
They nearly flatlined in 2024, gasping for relevance and credibility. In 2025, they’ve finally been moved to hospice care. The majority of Americans no longer trust the media—and for good reason. They’ve participated in massive lies, not just of omission but of manipulation. And all their lies were designed to shape narratives and control thought.
Elon Musk declared on X that “the people are now the media.” Predictably, the corporate media responded with defensive indignation. But their implosion is undeniable. CNN’s ratings are in free fall, and Jim Acosta, once the network’s prized attack dog against Trump, has been demoted to the graveyard shift. Hosting a show from midnight to 2 AM is less a career move and more an exile—a fitting end for a man whose entire journalistic brand was confrontational posturing.
CNN anchor Jim Acosta, a longtime thorn in the side of President-elect Donald Trump, just got some bad news.
In his latest move to shake up the ratings-deprived network, CNN chief Mark Thompson is reportedly considering moving Acosta out of his relatively successful morning slot and burying him to host a show running from midnight until 2 am ET.
The news comes via Oliver Darcy, writing for his Status newsletter. Darcy, himself a former CNN journalist, with his influential “Reliable Sources” newsletter, indicates that his own reliable sources have told him Thompson floated the idea in a phone call that shocked Acosta.
“The move would effectively exile Acosta to the Siberia of television news. He’d be manning down a shift when much of the country is fast asleep and viewership is at its lowest,” he writes.
While Thompson could effectively defend such a move as he shuffles lineups in an attempt to revive the dying network, it’s impossible to avoid the obvious — it would make Trump happy.
“They want to get rid of Acosta to throw a bone to Trump,” one source explained to Darcy. “Midnight is not a serious offer when his ratings are among the best on the network.”
Meanwhile, over at MSNBC, the carnage continues.
Rashida Jones, the network’s first Black female president, stepped down—a move that would’ve been unthinkable in the DEI-obsessed Biden era. Her replacement? Rebecca Kutler, the architect of CNN+, a streaming service so disastrous it collapsed in under a month. If this is the best the media can do, they might as well start writing their own obituaries.
MSNBC President Rashida Jones is stepping down and the network will replace her with Rebecca Kutler, a key architect of the failed CNN+ streaming service, The New York Times reported Tuesday.
Jones spent nearly four years as the network’s president. She took over in February 2021, following a year the network averaged nearly 1.6 million primetime viewers, according to Pew Research. That number dipped to under 830,000 after 2022, but bounced back to 1.23 million after 2024, according to Adweek.
As for Jones’ replacement, take a look at Kutler’s stellar resume. The article continues,
Kutler is leaping up from the position of senior vice president of content strategy. Before that she was head of programming at CNN+, the media conglomerate’s $300 million streaming service, which they shut down after one month.
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In an effort to recover, the network announced Monday that Maddow would be temporarily broadcasting her show nightly at 9:00 p.m. through the first 100 days of the Trump presidency.
The parent company Comcast plans to sell the network and spin it off into a new venture, which as of right now is set to be called SpinCo.
The media’s self-destruction is poetic justice.
For years, they masqueraded as truth-tellers while shamelessly peddling propaganda. They ignored stories that didn’t fit their agenda and inflated scandals that did. They became extensions of the Democratic Party, cheerleaders for leftist policies, and attack dogs against anyone who dared dissent. And now, the people have turned on them.
But conservatives can’t just celebrate the media’s demise; we must offer alternatives. Platforms like X, Substack, and independent news sites are already filling the void, but the fight isn’t over. Leftists will double down on censorship, desperate to control the flow of information. We need to be ready, not just with platforms but with principles. The truth must be unbannable.
The media’s death rattle isn’t a complete victory—it’s an opening. The question is: will we seize it?
