Is Legacy news media about to die a slow death?

[MARMITE]

It was funny watching the legacy media responding to the poll results after Trump's speech. They have lost their ability to sway the masses because everyone sees them as the propaganda wing of the DNC.

 

[rareboy]

Again...another random comment backed up by nothing that is somehow supposed to be relevant to the topic?

 

[MARMITE]

This is why the legacy media is dying. If you think this hive mentality, the Borg mentality of the media is a good thing, then you are part of the problem....

 

[ravenstone]

Again...another random comment backed up by nothing that is somehow supposed to be relevant to the topic?

Again...another random comment backed up by nothing that is somehow supposed to be relevant to the topic?

Americans’ trust in media at lowest point in 5 decades: Survey​

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5167582-trust-media-record-low-gallup/

Legacy media at this point is singing to the choir. They would be better off to at least pretend to be fair once in a while.

 

[rareboy]

^ Obviously you also have missed most of the point of this thread?

 

[rareboy]

Meanwhile...speaking of information that can't be trusted...TrumpCo. are hanging onto their lies about transgenic mice on the WH official page.

"Last night, President Donald J. Trump highlighted many of the egregious examples of waste, fraud, and abuse funded by American taxpayers, including $8 million spent by the Biden Administration 'for making mice transgender.' The Fake News losers at CNN immediately tried to fact check it, but President Trump was right (as usual). FACT: Under the Biden Administration, the National Institutes of Health doled out millions of dollars in taxpayer-funded grants for institutions across the country to perform transgender experiments on mice."

—From the official website of the White House
Yes, Biden Spent Millions On Transgender Animal Experiments (whitehouse.gov; March 5, 2025)

 

[ravenstone]

^ Obviously you also have missed most of the point of this thread?

The point that the majority of Americans don't trust the legacy media, will and is leading to the death of the legacy media.

 

[rareboy]

That has been pretty much the entire point of the thread.

 

[rareboy]

Of course...it doesn't help when legacy media keeps up the charade with events like this.

 

[rareboy]

So still one of my favourite topics.

And increasingly, everyone seems to be getting the message in the US and even up here in Canuckistan.

As the legacy media has abandoned its role in journalism and becomes an increasingly consolidated vanity project for billionaires...it is losing more and more credibility and eyeballs

As the article notes NYT treated the teSSla sales stunt as a sales stunt...and not corruption.

At this point, I can't even think of a 'clean' US legacy media source for inforamtion. Anyone?

Is Legacy Media Dead? - Dame Magazine

There was a time when people collectively agreed on what constituted "the news." Walter Cronkite would sign off with "And that's the way it is," and most Americans nodded along. The New York Times was the "paper of record," and if something appeared in its pages, it existed as fact in our shared...

www.damemagazine.com

 

[rareboy]

In one fell swoop, The Atlantic has just swept to the front of the pack...definitely mainstream media, but making it apparent that it still understand s the purpose of journalism..

At the moment it deserves everyone's attention and praise for busting this story and not saving it for some later moment or purpose.

 

[TX-Beau]

Americans’ trust in media at lowest point in 5 decades: Survey​

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5167582-trust-media-record-low-gallup/

Legacy media at this point is singing to the choir. They would be better off to at least pretend to be fair once in a while.

Fox News will do that

 

[rareboy]

Just a follow-up thought.

 

[TX-Beau]

So still one of my favourite topics.

And increasingly, everyone seems to be getting the message in the US and even up here in Canuckistan.

As the legacy media has abandoned its role in journalism and becomes an increasingly consolidated vanity project for billionaires...it is losing more and more credibility and eyeballs

As the article notes NYT treated the teSSla sales stunt as a sales stunt...and not corruption.

At this point, I can't even think of a 'clean' US legacy media source for inforamtion. Anyone?

Is Legacy Media Dead? - Dame Magazine

There was a time when people collectively agreed on what constituted "the news." Walter Cronkite would sign off with "And that's the way it is," and most Americans nodded along. The New York Times was the "paper of record," and if something appeared in its pages, it existed as fact in our shared...

www.damemagazine.com

I watch the BBC

 

[rareboy]

This is why the New York Times is dead to me.

 

[TX-Beau]

That's what I hate about the coverage of Toad. They spin reality to give him a pass. He doesn't have an "appetite for risk." He doesn't have a plan; he doesn't know what the fuck consequences will be, he doesn't have a grasp of reality, and all he has is petty, vindictive spite.

I'm so tired of people pretending there's some thoughtful consideration behind any of it.

 

[rareboy]

NYT are now just a joke. Like WaPo.

They soft peddle all this shit to the right wing readers they think will prop up their papers as the liberals totally shift away from them as sources of journalism.

There doesn't seem to be a single newspaper out there in the US any more that has an editorial stance in opposition to TrumpCo.

Weird.

 

[TX-Beau]

NYT are now just a joke. Like WaPo.

They soft peddle all this shit to the right wing readers they think will prop up their papers as the liberals totally shift away from them as sources of journalism.

There doesn't seem to be a single newspaper out there in the US any more that has an editorial stance in opposition to TrumpCo.

Weird.

Exactly. I tried to like this, but it keeps telling me they've encountered some problems.

 

[rareboy]

And speaking about the decline and fall of WaPo., another defection from Bezos' Broligarch vanitas project.

Pulitzer Winner Quits Washington Post and Slams Bezos

Opinion columnist Eugene Robinson blamed Jeff Bezos’ recent edict to have the opinion section on “free market and personal liberties.”

www.thedailybeast.com

 

[rareboy]

And again...the NYT softballs the crisis with slop.

New York Times: ‘Few of Us Ever Imagined He Would Go This Far’ | Steve Rattner

stevenrattner.com