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Article in Daily Kos by Feris Hero, 10/16/24
Headline: “The Legacy Media Is Gambling With Its Future With Its Election Coverage.”
“I’ve heard and seen a number of comments from people lamenting that Trump is going to win. When asked about it, they point to the general old guard media who’re doing their usual horse race coverage.
” . . .I sort of understand what is going on here. Year after year of getting yelled at by angry conservatives for having the audacity to print factual information wears a person down. Add in that newsrooms across the country are shedding staff and moving to alternative methods to covering the news, and its a nightmarishly stressful job, I imagine. They need more paying customers, but the most vocal people reading their coverage are always complaining about it. So why not switch to ‘both sides’ coverage, appease the yelling people and widen your readership base? Such an elegantly simple solution that will ultimately destroy the institutions pushing them.
Yes, the news outlets will make excuses. They’ll hem and haw that its really hard to know what people are thinking. They’ll say this despite the fact that most news sources have turned into places that only report what is happening on social media, the place where people literally tell you what they are thinking.