Some outlets recalibrate coverage as they navigate threats of president-elect and interests faced by corporate owners

Summary

MSNBC, CNN, and major newspapers like The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times are softening their once critical stances, citing fear of retribution, business pressures, and audience polarization.

This shift has drawn backlash, with critics warning that neutrality risks undermining journalistic integrity in the face of Trump’s autocratic tendencies.

Meanwhile, Fox News is thriving, reaching record ratings.

As the media faces dwindling resources and public trust, experts argue it must choose between challenging authoritarianism or losing credibility entirely.

  • @Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world
    47•7 days ago

    It’s a fail. There’s no battle. You failed at your core job and are plotting your acquiescence.

    You failed the people.

    This from an industry absolutely whored to the advertising dollar. An ad in your products is a sign of shame for both of you.

    • @Buffalox@lemmy.world
      2•6 days ago

      Oh so you think it will get better? 😋
      I’m pretty sure China doesn’t have the amount of misinformation Americans are exposed to.
      Chinese misinformation is much more focused, and not all over the place, not even Chinese propaganda or people likens Xi to a God reborn, as Christians do with Trump.
      The misinformation is more like North Korea. With the difference that in USA the real information is also available. Which is why only about half the US population fall for it, where in North Korea it’s probably 80-90%

      The American media have failed completely, normalizing Trump and normalizing crazy like denial of scientific facts and normalizing malignant narcissism.

    • Snot FlickermanEnglish
      35•7 days ago

      For all the “we shouldn’t give up before we’ve started to fight” that we got from the media after Bezos made clear he was bending the knee before the election, the media sure as shit wants to give up before fighting.

  • @garretble@lemmy.worldEnglish
    88•7 days ago

    “Cowards who sanewashed him at every turn taking the cowards’ way out by not reporting true things in hopes to curry favor with the people who will hate them regardless.”

  • @SarcasticMan@lemmy.world
    45•7 days ago

    The media is not journalism, there is no journalism anymore. It is all corporate entertainment and propaganda. These news outlets don’t report “news” they report the narrative their billionaire owners want to be reported. It’s been that way since they got Ronny’s FCC to repeal the Fairness Doctrine. These fuckers don’t make money if we are at peace, they don’t make money when the economy is good they don’t make money unless the story bleeds. They don’t give a fuck if Trump won or lost or how old Biden is, all they care about is how they will make the most money they can.

    Trump is just the next evolution, we have seen it before with people like P.T. Barnum.

    That’s my opinion anyway.

  • masterofn001
    42•7 days ago

    Democracy died after being hooded, taken to a black site, suffocated and left in the darkness so that a few billionaire could keep being assholes.

  • NaibofTabrEnglish
    29•7 days ago

    “An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.”

    • Twitches
      6•7 days ago

      I love this quote, thank you. Helps with perspective.

      • NaibofTabrEnglish
        2•7 days ago

        I feel like we could use a modern-day Winston Churchill, or Walter Winchell.

  • Avid Amoeba
    20•7 days ago

    How could for-profit media ever survive this? They’re incentivised to move with the flow in order to maintain profit whether or not this flow leads in the direction of truth or democracy. I have a feeling that for-profit media isn’t able to to fulfill the role of media required for a working democracy.

  • @aesthelete@lemmy.world
    4•7 days ago

    They could pivot to actually covering the news without carrying water for fascists, or they could take the election results to mean people want them to carry more water for fascists. Gee, I wonder which one they’ll choose… 🤔

  • NeoToasty
    -19•7 days ago

    The one millionth post again reminding us:

    Trump won by basically uninformed voters and media manipulation.

    And

    The media being incredibly unhelpful.

    Please, bar these posts. They add nothing.

    HAHAHAHAHA! Oh man, people think this truly is Reddit to where they think I care about your stupid internet toy. Go touch grass.