To start, I want to show you a post from CNN’s reconstituted media maven, Brian Stelter. He was speaking with a network honcho about the state of the media these days. Specifically, this top-flight media figure was outright declaring that the media has failed in its mission, given that half the country (according to polls) supports Trump.
Anonymous TV exec: “If half the country has decided that Trump is qualified to be president, that means they’re not reading any of this media, and we’ve lost this audience completely. A Trump victory means mainstream media is dead in its current form.” https://t.co/zWiIqKYx1b
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) October 30, 2024
This is kind of staggering to see. Not that we do not believe this is how they have been behaving, but to see this admission coming from the top of a network shows the breadth of this effort. They…
