Legacy News Outlets That Bent The Knee To Trump Lost Credibility -- And Audience

MEDIA MATTERS: There’s No Ratings Bump for MAGA Media Capitulation

From the outset of the reoccupation of the White House by Donald Trump, much of the mainstream media seemed to have concluded that it would be in their best interest to shamelessly kiss his…let’s say ring, in order to be rewarded with some sort of presidential gratuity. It turns out that that wasn’t a particularly smart move. Click here to post this article on Twitter or Click here to post on Bluesky Trump’s diseased personality has long been ob…

Kissing Trump's Ass Actually Not Going So Well For WaPo, LAT, CBS News!

In the run-up to the 2024 election both Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos and LA Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong decided that neither of their newspapers would do an endorsement — with both asserting a desire to be seen bias-free. Not long after that, the opinion pages of both papers began a marked shift to the right.How has it worked out so far? Have the owners managed to replace the hundreds of thousands of readers who canceled their subscripti…

Legacy News Outlets That Bent The Knee To Trump Lost Credibility -- And Audience

It turns out that there isn’t a ratings bump for MAGA capitulation.David Ellison, the son of President Donald Trump’s megabillionaire ally Larry Ellison, took control of CBS last year following a corrupt deal that saw its parent company settle a lawsuit with the president and agree to implement a new conservative ombudsman for CBS News. As part of that takeover, he also installed conservative journalist Bari Weiss at the helm, promising that her…

Legacy outlets that bent the knee to Trump haven’t just lost credibility — they’re bleeding readers and viewers