Article in The Washington Post by Eric Wemple , 11/7/24

Headline: “Opinion – Trump wins! Another chapter in mainstream media’s decline.”

Subhead:  “A media critic’s tools seem ill-suited to analyze election night 2024, but a new era is at hand. “

“. . . Mainstream media organizations are suffering from cratering public trust and obsessing about how best to revive it. Does such an industry want to continue promoting polling results and polling averages and so on? Bailing on the setup would require a newsroom upheaval of sorts, meaning a reduction in the sugar-high horse-race stories that deliver daily click-a-thons for newspapers and broadcasters alike.”

“. . . There are other sources out there, to be sure, including cable news, podcasts and social media, on which a broad range of views and even misinformation are represented. But Trump in the final weeks of his campaign backed out of interviews with mainstream outlets — NBC News, CNBC, CBS News’ “60 Minutes” — and reveled in the embrace from nonmainstream voices with enormous audiences, like Joe Rogan, Megyn Kelly and Tucker Carlson. It’s possible that Trump will feel so coddled by those folks that he’ll forget all about legacy media outlets, along with his compulsion to bash them.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/11/07/trump-media-future-fragmentation/