Article in the Raw Story by John Stoehr, 11/21/24
Headline: “Until there’s a liberal media apparatus, the Democrats will live in Trump’s America”
“. . . critics are missing the real lesson from the 2024 election – that her policies were not the determining factor in her defeat. It was the ear-splitting volume of the accusations against her and the absence of equal and opposite accusations against him.”
“. . . It didn’t matter because what she said, the substance of her message wasn’t as important to the outcome of the election as the volume of it, which is to say, the substance of what she said could not be heard through the din of the rightwing media apparatus. As media expert Matthew Sheffield said today, nothing was going to get through that, not even the shared reality of the economy. “Through seven TV channels, more than 1,500 talk-radio stations, and millions of social media posts. . .”
“. . . Trump’s attack ads worked in tandem with thousands of media sites, including the one formerly known as Twitter, that have been operating around the clock since 2020, often in parallel with the Washington press corps. They were able to take one small thing Harris said years ago and turn it into a caricature so ridiculous that a convicted felon like Donald Trump could look like a viable candidate by comparison. . . ”
“. . . The volume of the rightwing media apparatus, especially when it’s in sync with the Washington press corps, is so loud that it can feel like the ultimate arbiter of our political reality. As one CNN anchor put it this morning, this is Donald Trump’s America. We’re just living in it. Until there’s a liberal media apparatus, one that can meet bad info with good info, the Democrats will continue living in Trump’s America, too.
https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/liberal-media/
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Article in Columbia Journalism Review by Josh Hersh, 11/20/24
Headline: “Why Traditional Media Can’t Have Its Own Joe Rogan”
Subhead: “Vulture’s Nicholas Quah on the lessons from Donald Trump’s foray into podcast-land.”
” . . . sometimes when people say that these platforms are not journalistic, there is a very specific and very narrow idea of journalism they are referring to, according to the old rules. Whereas we now live in a world where there’s an increasing number of people who are just not familiar with, or maybe aren’t even exposed to the value of, the old rules. . . ”
https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/why-the-media-cant-have-its-own-joe-rogan.php
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