Someone from the post leaked a conversation, "how do we get more MAGAs?" Um, they all seem to not understand that only 30% voted for him, 30% did not vote at all. The pool of potential readers is not large - and they probably are not huge readers - too busy watching Fox.
Also, Right Wingers have been successfully "working the refs" at mainstream media for decades now. Mainstream media have been bending to that pressure for that long. It's an ingrained habit by now.
Jay Rosen & Wajahat Ali comment on this, at Xitter:
They are tools of or part of the international corporate oligarchy at this point, if they were not already. They are pretending to "inform" when what they are really doing is simply acting like sports commentators calling the game after being told what they should be "reporting."
The prevailing political wisdom for the last 50 years has always been for the left to lean right in the hopes of securing the hearts and minds of a seemingly imaginary center. The result of which is that no one really likes them very much. This applies to both news media and Dems.
You'd think that they woulda learned from the CNN model at least as far back as the Tea Party days, but they are so consumed with the thought "if we just both sides hard enough, our moderate base will remain, and the fringes will be drawn like moths to a fame" that it'll work THIS time
The NY Times in particular drives me nuts in this regard. The right is always going to consider the Times a liberal rag; why TF not just embrace it? Fire clowns like Douthat & Stephens.
Fixed it for you: Corporate mainstream news seems determined to alienate voters and people who get their news from them.
Why? In order to placate oligarchs who will never trust any honest news source.
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From last August.
https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-mark-zuckerberg-sent-prison-elected-truth-social-2024-7
Jay Rosen & Wajahat Ali comment on this, at Xitter:
https://x.com/jayrosen_nyu/status/1282489808024211459
https://bsky.app/profile/schooley.bsky.social/post/3lfvslss3fc2o
News (and every other org) use shareholder responsibility as the pretext.
Why? In order to placate oligarchs who will never trust any honest news source.