MONOKULTUR

Chris Wallace har set skriften på væggen og er “Coming to af Substack near you”. “CNN is planning to wield the axe on some of its high-paid staff after dismal election ratings that cap off a disastrous period for the cable news network.” skriver Daily Mail

In 2016, when it was headed by since-ousted leader Jeff Zucker, it was the most watched network overall – a distinction that’s now held by Fox News.

At the time, CNN had averaged 13.3million viewers in primetime. Today, it’s only around 800,000.

Right-leaning Fox hosts like Laura Ingraham, Jesse Watters, Sean Hannity, and Greg Gutfeld, meanwhile, are averaging 2.8 million viewers in the same timeslots – the most in a field that’s currently being affected by streaming and other forms of media.

Adding insult to injury was CNN’s struggles on election day – a day that eight years ago would’ve seen it score a decisive ratings victory.

However, following a Trump presidency and a term from the Biden Administration, it lost to MSNBC in terms of ratings – something never seen before as it only drew in 5.1million sets of eyes that night.

MSNBC, meanwhile, raked in 6million – a number eclipsed almost twofold by Fox News’ 10.3million.

Også “MSNBC’s viewership took a nosedive last week after Donald Trump‘s landslide election victory.” skriver Daily Mail videre. Måske fordi Joy Reid skælder ud på mænd med anden etnisk hudfarve, fordi de efter hendes mening er misogyne ved deres fravalg af Kamala Harris. Og så havde hun en psykiater i studiet, der forklarede seerne at det var en god ide, hvis man ikke brugte helligdagene med den del af ens familie, der havde stemt på Trump, skriver Jonathan Turley

Across the country, women have been cutting their hair and joining the Korean 4B movement—bihon (no marriage), bichulsan (no childbirth), biyeonae (no dating), and bisekseu (no sex). One is quoted as saying, “I fear The Handmaid’s Tale will become our reality.”

(…) I watched one deranged voter say that she is thinking of buying a “Glock” and shooting the first man who comes near her. If so, she would have an over 4 out of 10 likelihood of shooting a fellow Harris supporter.

Deres løgne giver de offentligt ansatte dårlige nerver, med konsekvenser helt til Norge, hvor der skete en 250% stigning af kvinder og børn, der ringede til krisetelefontjenesten. Fordi de stadig tror på medierne. Men det gør folk flest ikke længere.

Latteren brød ud hos Stephen Colbert da han sagde til CNNs Caitlin Collins sagde “I know you guys try to be objective”. Det er affødt af øjeblikke som da samme Collins under Trumps Townhall spurgte, hvorfor han var så længe om at bede demonstranterne på Capitol 6/1 ‘21 om at gå hjem, til hvilket han hev dokumentationen mod den løgn frem fra inderlommen.

Eller, som X-profilen MAZE mindede om, CNN’s Brian Stelters indslag “Manufacturing a storyline”, hvor han viste, hvorledes ‘russerne’ spredte desinformation. Eksemplet han trak frem, var historien om Hunter Bidens computer. MSNBC’s Morning Joe angreb New York Post direkte for at løbe ‘russernes’ og Rudy Giulianis ærinde. Brian Stelter var også en af dem, der argumenterede for, at Trumps kampagne var nazistisk. “CNN Sucks!” råbte Trumps tilhængere passende.

Eller dengang CNN redigerede billedet af pod-casteren Joe Rogan, så han fremstod sygeligt gusten, fordi han, under pandemien, gik mod den fremherskende fortælling om lægemidlet Ivermectin.

 “CNN’s @kaitlancollins recently told @billmaher her show “is evidence” that @CNN is a “network both sides can watch.”” skrev Alberto E Martinez og tilføjede “Her appearance reveals one aspect driving the crisis in media trust: some journalists truly believe they’re unbiased, despite the evidence to the contrary”. Han fortsatte i en en tråd med at give eksempler som CNN’s Caitlin Collins, der bliver ved med at afbryde JD Vance, mens Kentuckys guvernør Mike Beashar, der var potentiel vicepræsidentkandidat af samme Collins får al den tid han skal bruge til at svare på ‘let ledende’ spørgsmål.

Elon Musk mener at borgerjournalistik er eller hurtigt vil blive bedre end konventionel journalistik

“This is really going to be the new model of news, which is to gather information from people who are at the scene, who are experts in the field, summarize the experts in the field and people who are at whatever events is being talked about, and aggregate that into a real-time news feed.

I think, for the most part, that will be better than conventional journalism.

You’ve got real-time aggregation of the collective wisdom of tens of millions of people.

Although something may be said that is incorrect, it is very quickly corrected. Whereas a newspaper that is publishing, what happened yesterday, when you read the article, that article could be wrong, often is wrong, but there’s no rebuttal to the article.”

“The media (…) is a propaganda arm of the Democratic Party and the deep state” siger Michael Shellenberger “And now, as it ramps up its disinformation aimed at influencing the election, the media’s pathocratic nature is visible for all to see”.

Social media, the exodus of investigative journalists from mainstream news media, and Elon Musk’s takeover of X have shattered that picture into a thousand pieces. People don’t trust the media because, since 2016, it has acted as a propaganda arm of the Democratic Party.

This is not just our opinion but also that of Jeff Bezos, the owner of the Washington Post. “In the annual public surveys about trust and reputation,” he wrote yesterday, “journalists and the media have regularly fallen near the very bottom, often just above Congress. But in this year’s Gallup poll, we have managed to fall below Congress. Our profession is now the least trusted of all. Something we are doing is clearly not working.”

Mediernes fortælling, for de der ikke kan lide at blive konfronteret med dissens, dominerer til venstre for midten, mens tilliden til medierne, som de tryktestes, falder til højre for midten, skriver David Sacks

Party affiliation is now entirely correlated with trust in MSM. Republicans realize it’s propaganda. Independents are on the path. Democrats are the people still plugged into the Matrix.

“There is such an intense TRUST DEFICIT on the right – as @Gallup‘s latest polling makes clear.” sagde Brian Stelter uden selvbevidsthed i en tråd, hvor han harcelerer over at Brett Baier, fra Fox News, hvis “uber-skeptical commenters on this site replied with doubts and conspiracy theories” udviser “extreme disdain for Harris and overwhelming distrust of the media”, skal interviewe Kamala Harris. I en tråd siger Michael Shellenberger blandt andet

The media say we must give the government more power to fight misinformation online. We must not. The only way to fight misinformation is through free speech. What the media really want is the power to censor us. And it’s easy to see why: very few Americans trust them.

For years, governments and mainstream media corporations worked hand-in-glove to censor social media platforms. After @elonmusk bought Twitter, that changed. Ever since, they’ve been on the warpath, demanding the power to censor X and demonizing the First Amendment.

Brazil, Canada, and Australia show where this is all headed. They are working to shake down social media platforms to pay off mainstream media they control. It’s censorship in service of propaganda. Their goal is total control over the information environment

The media need censorship to maintain their news monopoly. Their brainwashing worked on Democrats from 2016 – 2020. But Democrats’ trust has dropped 16 points since 2022. Years of media gaslighting on Covid, Russia, inflation, migration, Biden, laptop, etc. is now backfiring.

Trust is declining because our institutions are doing the opposite of their purpose. The media is spreading propaganda and demanding censorship. The FBI, CIA, and DHS are committing crimes. Pediatricians are hurting kids. Universities are silencing scholars.

Demokraters tillid til medierne er også faldet. Det kommer sig måske af et debatpanel på MSNBC undrer sig over at Trump kun harcelerer over illegale migranter fra venezuela og ikke fra Danmark. En idioti som sætter den samlede dækning i relief, som Mario Nawfal fortalte, om et studie fra Media Research Center, der fortalte at “Major networks ABC, CBS, and NBC have delivered most unbalanced election coverage in history” på baggrund af 600 indslag siden sommerferien. Det fortalte at mens medierne dækkede Kamala positivt i 78% af indslagene, var de negative overfor Trump i 85%.

Vivek Ramaswamy gav den hele armen, da han under Republikanernes primærvalg slog fast at det ikke skulle være NBC, der arrangerede debatten, men i stedet Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk eller Joe Rogan, “we’d have ten times the viewership”. Som Mika Brzezinski formulerede det: “[Elon Musk] could have undermined the messaging so much that he can actually control exactly what people think. AND THAT IS OUR JOB.“