Wrong Media Message?

Article from The Hill by Steve Krakauer, 11/7/24

Headline:  “Trump won because Americans rejected false media narratives”

“It’s fair to assess that most Americans fully rejected the framing employed by large portions of the mainstream media about the stakes in the election. They didn’t buy that Trump is “the tyrant George Washington feared,” as The Atlantic screamed. They don’t believe that Trump represents “American fascism,” as the New Republic tried to argue.

The core thesis from the Trump-addicted Acela media was that Trump was a threat to “democracy,” and that Harris was positioned as the “unity” candidate. These were the narrative throughlines presented.

And yet there is good reason to see them as antithetical to how the average American views these issues. This fundamental disconnect is why the press failed to convince the country to rebuff Trump on Tuesday.

https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4978909-trump-won-because-americans-rejected-false-media-narratives/