After this last election, will the media start to change?
Trump won not only the electoral college vote, but the popular vote. That means that most people in this country felt he was the best candidate for the job. But that isn’t what the media has been telling us for 8 years now. According to the Dems and the media he is a Fascist, a racist, a xenophobe, a dictator wannabe, and so many more things. These are the things the Dems ran on in 2016, 2020, and 2024. But more people have left the Dem party than ever before and groups that have traditionally voted for the Dems no matter what are starting to break off from that role. Is this a sign to the leftist media that all the propaganda is a losing proposition and will they get back to being more middle of the road on their coverage?
Please note this is not a question about how you feel about Trump. It isn’t a question about any candidate but is a question about the behavior of the media in this country. And it is in the General section so please treat it as such.
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If the media is punished, for reporting on the president, then yes the media will change.
If you’re asking whether the mainstream media will stop running sensational stories about Trump, then no, of course not. They will only do so if it’s not a moneymaker. But it absolutely will be.
The popular vote was 50% for Trump to 47 for Harris, so yes, “most people” voted for Trump but it’s “most” by a narrow margin.
@jca2 I read that Trump received 3 million fewer votes than in 2020 and Kamala received 15 million fewer than Biden. People don’t love Trump more, they’re just sick of Democrats.
This is evidenced by state measures as well. Pro-abortion bills in many states received more votes than Kamala did. A bill protecting trans people from discrimination in NY won by a wider margin than Kamala won the state by.
@MrGrimm888 and @Tropical_Willie I’m not interested in conspiracy theories about Trump. I’m actually curious about what the media will do. They are already getting punished by the people who no longer have any faith in their credibility. People are tuning out. And the stories they have relied on were all “hate Trump” stories that the Dems wanted to have pushed. Those stories no longer work as they once did. This can be evidenced by the reaction to the sensationalized “Got him!” stories they kept running through the campaign. Every time the Dems did something that was viewed as underhanded, Trump’s popularity went up. Every time the media ran some story trying to rewrite something he said, his popularity went up. So will they change or is it going to be more of the same as the past 8 years? And if it does remain the same, what do they have to gain? Trump won’t be running again in 2028.
I think it already changed. Several major newspapers (Wash Post, USA Today, among others) were too cowardly to endorse Harris because they were afraid of retribution by Trump.
The beginning of a Hitlerian dictatorship, before your very eyes. Or maybe Putinian dictatorship, take your pick.
@seawulf575 “Trump won not only the electoral college vote, but the popular vote. That means that most people in this country felt he was the best candidate for the job.”
That is an inaccurate conclusion. An accurate statement would be:
“Most people who turned out to vote chose Trump.”
Perhaps > 50% of the population believes Trump is the best candidate for the job, it could also be that the people who felt that way about Trump made their voices heard by turning out to vote for him while the rest didn’t. We can’t know based on the election results alone, we’d need polling data to understand pubic sentiment about the candidates.
I voted for Harris but didn’t think she was the best candidate for the job (I think Cornel West was).
Which media? FOX news has been praising Trump
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