People may be ditching the news, but it’s not because of the results of the election. It’s because people are sick and tired of corporate media covering Joe Biden’s choice of footwear with more zeal than Donald Trump’s threat to democracy.
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Actually, I think the headline is true. Many posters on Threads said that felt so depressed and exhausted after TFG's win that they were not going to watch the news for weeks (or longer). I was one of them, but I fear I couldn't resist continuing to consume some (but not as much) news.
It’s more important than ever to support ethical news organizations. That’s the only way we’ll have any hope of knowing what’s going on. I recommend @propublica.org
I don't know where you got that from but, I personally, am sick to death of hearing about Trump and all the misfits he's naming to lead his government and all the other shit swirling around him. That's all that trash bag does is stir up shit and all the press does is talk about it. 🤢🤮😱🤬😒
Yeah. Maybe something new will rise from the ashes. But watching msm sane wash for 4 fucking years culminating in this outcome I’ll be damned if they see another dime or view from me at least.
Exactly. Do you think they’ll start interviewing us now and try to understand why we voted for Harris? Maybe our answers are too predictable .. like we like presidents who aren’t convicted felons.
I've almost given up on all news due to corporate media and client journalism. People like Rupert Murdoch and the 4th Viscount Rothermere of the Daily Mail have turned news into Trump propaganda that would make Kim Jong Un's state media blush.
… Worse, he’s bringing in a menagerie of crooks and cretins to help him hurt every one of us, including the imbeciles and fellow traitors who voted him in again. It’d be funny if it weren’t all a danger to end the experiment that this country has been.
Yep, I was a news junkie for many years. Always had it on as I worked. But I can’t stand it anymore. No one held the crim’s feet to the fire. Now he gets to come in and do his best to destroy the Constitution and our imperfect democracy. …
This is it exactly. Thank you. I think the pile on after the debate about "age" and "fitness" then when Biden stepped down there was no talk about Trump's age. They treated him like he was a normal candidate instead of a threat to our democracy's continued existence. They failed us all.
Actually, let me take that back. They didn't treat Trump like a normal candidate, they treated him with kid gloves. He was incoherent, obscene, refused real interviews, had no policy answers. Harris every word was picked apart and criticized. They held her to impossible standards, and Trump to none.
Exactly! Even the ones who've spent years taccidly calling trump out are now kissing the ring. Mainstream media is an inept part of why Amerixa is in this state rn
For me too, they wanted this. CNN and MSNBC are already salivating to be outraged at everything Trump does .... I am not rewarding them for failing to defend democracy properly.
I'm tired of being told by Democrats that Trump is a threat to democracy then doing absolutely nothing about it. I guess it was a good fundraising tool. Seeing Biden meet with Trump was so galling. Biden honors tradition when Trump pisses all over the country.
Also, fear mongering on the left that was broadcast by msm. Everybody’s hair was on fire about Trump getting elected and now here we are. I have friends that don’t want to live in our country anymore. Doomsday has arrived—now what? Perhaps we can just have a nice holiday season with our families?
There was fear mongering on the right as well and yet it helped Trump. Fear mongering doesn’t work as well on lefties. They’re less motivated to vote AGAINST someone than FOR someone
Dead right. NYT wrote 100+ stories on Biden's age & 3 on policy last spring. I cancelled then and will never resubscribe. Same with WAPO and billionaire-owned journalism. Guardian, Economist, Atlantic, FT are my sources. No cable news TV at all. PBS & the Tennis channel are all I watch on cable.
This is what they want you to do ... give up on MSM. Don't fall for that. I will continue to support Local Journalism, starting with @azcentral.bsky.social, because a well-informed Electorate is the best Defense Against Tyranny.
1000% and the network you appear on a lot spent everyday Sane washing Donald Trump attacking Joe Biden, and never covering any of the accomplishments of the Democrats and the Biden administration. And I for one I’m not coming back as a viewer.
I was on the phone today with a family member who voted for Trump. We talked BlueSky, X and MSM. She was open to me sharing about Trumps inaction on the transition and I’ve sent her Elizabeth Warren’s memo. Hopeful. She never knew from MSM.
I’m so fucking tired of Democrats being held to the Standard as the only group that has agency and accountability while everyone just expects Republicans to be toddlers in a China Shop…. Hahaha nothing matters
I also cannot stand to see tRump’s face so I can’t watch the news. They keep flashing it and showing him as if he is respectable which we all know he is not.
I agree! I’ve been a political junkie since my early 20’s. Now 46 and have decided to protect my sanity. I will not fully disengage but even I see the bias and poor coverage in many media outlets of the real issues that impact many Americans. They share contribution to the degradation of dialog.
Don't quit the news!
Watch Rachel Maddow...a fresh, calm perspective - and conversations with people who are smart, experienced, often funny, and who aren't blindly loyal to a guy who does NOT DESERVE, and has not EARNED, loyalty from anyone.
Stay up to date on the protests!
Keep calm and watch her.
I am so glad you said this. You are so right and I worry that it will not change without readers being vigilant about calling out the MSM constantly over the next four years and beyond.
Count me in. The cowardice of mainstream media and their complicity in normalizing the “orange fascist” crossed an already razor-thin line for me a long time ago.
Fair Point. They are not great at self examination. During the 2016 election the major news outlets liked Trump's outragous, and often untrue statements, saying publically that it was "good for profits". I could be wrong, but I thought it was the CEO of CNN who said that.
The fact that the legacy media can’t stop mischaracterizing our disengagement in condescending ways just further reinforces my belief that it had outlived its usefulness and should no longer exist.
It’s not us, it’s you and your billionaire owner WaPo.
Rules of the game-
- "both sides" must be treated the same EXCEPT
- one side is always too liberal/to far the left (though it isn't)
- the other side may be considered too conservative/too far to the right, but it only will be after they passed that point long ago.
- Real Americans = GOP base voters
Disagree. Can’t speak in absolutes here. In the 5 weeks after the 2016 election @cnn.com viewership dropped by over 50% and @MSNBC by over 40%. Fox dropped big right after 2020 too. People get sad/depressed/tired and tune out in the immediate aftermath. Cant dismiss that as part of it as well.
I turned off the news on election night and haven’t turned it on since for my own mental health.
From 2017-2021, I woke up every morning and checked the news to see what horrible thing That Guy was doing that day. I cannot possibly deal with that again for another four years.
I’m watching the news in disbelief. No one is questioning the integrity of the election. Trump is ignoring the requirements refusing to sign required documents & FBI background checks. This man gets away with everything & is not being held accountable for anything! I live in FEAR for our country.
Correct. They failed us by sane washing Trump. Not about to give them my attention. They can win us back by doing relentless legit hard investigative journalism, but we know they won’t, so bye.
I’m convinced they all want Trump in the White House because he’s like a train wreck—it’s impossible to look away. He generates ratings and profit. Sadly, it’s the American way.
It seems logical that news viewership has gone down. Wasn't it only the left that were watching it in the first place? The right doesn't watch actual news, just Fox. If they did watch real news, the election would have ended with a competent leader instead of the orange clown! In my opionion anyhow.
True, and I am one of them. Tired of cowardly, unbalanced media. Tired of cowardly Merrick Garland. Tired of Dem's overthinking and overdiscussing problems. Put a verb in there! Joe, do it all on your way out! Appoint more SCOTUS JUSTICES NOW.
That’s correct. We’re tired of billionaires using media they purchase/own to skew the story to suit their views. Fox, LATimes, WaPo, NY Times, even your MSNBC. I just won’t consume corporate news anymore.
The media failed us in so many ways. Thousands of specific questions about Harris and millions of dollars worth of free advertising for tRump every time he opened his gob and said anything outrageous or stupid.
Yeah, as I posted earlier... People are sick of the ongoing sane-washing. It's a slap in the face to democracy and the rule of law. The MSM grow more irrelevant by the day. They fear the petty tyrant more than they love our country, which makes them worse than useless -- Passive Enablers.
And look who owns them. People are wise to their game and want no part of it. They want real issues addressed and covered, not stenography for the oligarchs
Yes. It's just a lighter smokescreen. There are no undeterrable investigative journalists working for highly moral and powerful news organizations anymore. Poof, the 4th estate is gone. Good luck, Democracy.
It’s because they continue to normalize what the orange turd is doing. Not all but a lot. I backed off a lot of shows before the election. Then after the election many shows wanted kept taking about why Dems lost without talking about the racism and misogyny
I am so tired of chaos and drama of Trump and reporting consistently being reporters interview ing one another guessing what comes next. It is a big country. Can we have real news of it and the world? I have turned to the BBC and radio instead.
You normalized Trump as if he was a regular candidate instead of reporting on what a threat he was to our Democracy.
Now we have a dictator because the News failed us .
Exactly! They also held Kamala Harris to a different standard. I felt and still feel like we are being gaslighted. I shut off CNN and MSNBC the day after the election. I don't intend to go back. I have been watching the evening news on CBS. That's enough for me.
It wasn’t MSM. Mainstream media would have done its job.
It was OOM, Oligarch Owned Media. Not only are all the news networks owned by oligarchs, so are other non-typical sources like Twitter, Instagram, and Threads.
....the character limit on Twitter posts influences how people communicate and perceive the messages. McLuhan believed that media are extensions of ourselves, and that any extension, like a hand or foot, affects our social and psychic complex
"The media is the message...
The theory suggests that the form of communication, such as a book, podcast, or social media post, affects how the message is perceived ...
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This is the correct answer. To expand, the major networks would "interview" GOP sycophants and ask a specific question. The sycophant would then proceed to filibuster on issues unrelated to the question. Then when pressed, attack the media.
True. I focus on seeking information from trusted, sources--elected officials I respect, professionals (mostly lawyers & economists that focus on facts, policies). With those platformed on the corporate media, say MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell, I access them via YouTube/podcast/BlueSky.
You are correct. If they had done their jobs in the last four years, we wouldn't be here now. I'm disappointed and unsure where to find timely, relevant facts to stay informed. Heavy sigh...
Our Corporate media, including the WP & all cable, were a source of as much DISINFORMATION as Musk & Russia. You erased Biden’s entire presidency—purposefully—while sanewashing a traitor who hates this country passionately and is is bed with Putin! WHY SHOULD WE EVER TRUST YOU AGAIN?
10 years of ignoring every fucking thing he does and says in favor of ratings. That's why we're burning MSM to the ground. Our democracy means nothing to them. Fuck them all.
The market economy finally comes into play, because contrary to Bezos et al -assumption, the market wasn’t for both sides hedging but the truth and its investigation-and that’s not content they were interested in providing. Good luck with puzzle and recipe market.
I stopped watching the news because they normalized the most dispicable human being on the planet. Joe & Mika slithered down to Mar a logo to hump Trump’s trailing leg. I have lost all respect & reliance on the MSM. They fucked us. @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social
Totally agree. I turned it on a couple days after the election to find them blaming the loss on the very things they said and did. I thought they were truth tellers. Turns out they’re just another set of gaslighters.
Most news whether you consider it left or right has a corporate agenda. Also there’s a lot of AI bots online creating stories. Journalists today are pathetic couldn’t write a sentence without Grammarly. They put out content for clicks and views. 💵💰
Speaking of Trump's threat to us, we can defeat him if we want. The plan is linked below. Or, we can sit on our hands and watch our Democracy and our freedoms die.
Another thing that really gets me is that they think we’re all a bunch of snowflakes who want to live in our echo chamber when the truth is we’re just done with the normalization of a criminally convicted reality show charlatan who’s intent on destroying our democracy.
And the sad truth is that Americans has handed power back to such criminals and convict to rule over non criminal citizens. With all 3 branches of government under their armpit and the Supreme church cult on top it is left for the few to pick up the pieces and make democracy exist. 🤷🏽♂️
Damn straight we are - they paid more attention to Harris’s job history at McDonalds than Trumps crazy notion they are eating the cats and dogs. Seriously- who the fuck cares if she did - 🙄 But no one in MSM took a stand.
all the 'talk' - punditry, book writing doesn't do anything...
its all about the money, and who can 'buy' the government they want
sadly between massive oligarch corruption & hurtling towards climate change that makes our planet uninhabitable - it may be game over ☠️
Nice job 'media' & Republicans
We’ve spent 8 years hearing about his crimes, listening to you talking heads say how his court cases may end up…we wanted him in prison…that’s why we aren’t watching. No DOJ and obviously some people are above the law.
Oh! I know, on the call, ask them why they weren't allowed to separate themselves from Biden, a famously unpopular president, in order to run a better campaign? Or, oh! I know, ask them why the DNC wasn't planning a transition from Biden years before the inevitable reelection!
This is exactly correct. In addition, the MSM coverage of the the June debate and public humiliation of President Joe Biden was disgusting. And now the MSM is busy blaming Democrats for the election because they are incapable of being honest with themselves and their role. The MSM is useless.
No, I'm ditching the news because all the news is bad. We could have had joy and hope. We could have had progress. Instead we got a bitter old man who's determined to punish us all. I'm grieving for Ukraine, for Gaza, for innocent immigrants, for all of us and the disaster to come.
There is too much obsessed coverage of the President-elect. The media aided and abetted normalization of Mr Trump since 2015. The incumbent President from 2021 had to play second fiddle to 45 regarding media coverage
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Can't believe as a news junkie, I have ditched the corporate media news.
I’m so fucking tired of Democrats being held to the Standard as the only group that has agency and accountability while everyone just expects Republicans to be toddlers in a China Shop…. Hahaha nothing matters
Watch Rachel Maddow...a fresh, calm perspective - and conversations with people who are smart, experienced, often funny, and who aren't blindly loyal to a guy who does NOT DESERVE, and has not EARNED, loyalty from anyone.
Stay up to date on the protests!
Keep calm and watch her.
It’s not us, it’s you and your billionaire owner WaPo.
Also, don’t click the article. Starve them.
- "both sides" must be treated the same EXCEPT
- one side is always too liberal/to far the left (though it isn't)
- the other side may be considered too conservative/too far to the right, but it only will be after they passed that point long ago.
- Real Americans = GOP base voters
Propaganda rag run by one of the richest men in the world.
Cancel that subscription and toss it in the bin of history.
From 2017-2021, I woke up every morning and checked the news to see what horrible thing That Guy was doing that day. I cannot possibly deal with that again for another four years.
Now we have a dictator because the News failed us .
I am here as an Advocate for Human Rights, Dignity & Justice.
I am here as a Resister to tyranny and authoritarianism.
I am here to collaborate.
It was OOM, Oligarch Owned Media. Not only are all the news networks owned by oligarchs, so are other non-typical sources like Twitter, Instagram, and Threads.
The theory suggests that the form of communication, such as a book, podcast, or social media post, affects how the message is perceived ...
It's nothing but poor quality journalism.
They hate doing that.
They do not understand their role in our democracy.
Imagine if they ignored the Arnold Palmer story (obv distraction!) and discussed the policy stakes, instead? #Shame
Stand up. Gather together. Get yourself ready. Fight back. Share the plan.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/11/21/2287839/-We-Can-Stop-Trump?_=2024-11-21T11:19:50.000-08:00
its all about the money, and who can 'buy' the government they want
sadly between massive oligarch corruption & hurtling towards climate change that makes our planet uninhabitable - it may be game over ☠️
Nice job 'media' & Republicans
I still have my “Billionaires can’t buy Bernie” bumper sticker on my car!
Bernie and you and I know we have try.