For the last four years, CNN and MSNBC – and to a lesser degree, Fox News – made a good living covering every little thing they could find about President Trump, regardless if it was true. As the 2020 elections loomed and even for a time afterwards, Fox News – a longtime leader among the cable news outlets – found itself in third place.
Now, Trump is out of office and the cable news world is returning to a sort of normalcy. CNN, which was in first place the first week of January, dropped more than half of its viewers and fell to third in the last week of the month. MSNBC was second; and Fox regained first place, although both of those networks were down compared to the beginning of January.
Kyle Drennen of Media Research Center says CNN has been feasting on Trump for four years. “CNN are victims of their own success,” Drennen tells One News Now. “Their team won – but guess what? Now people don’t feel like they need to watch CNN anymore.”
He expects it will be interesting over the next couple of years to see if the mainstream news media will maintain their role of Biden “cheerleader” – or if they’ll abandon their anti-Trump activism and start acting like the press is supposed to act.
“If things don’t go well with the vaccine rollout … [or] if there are other issues and challenges that happen and don’t seem to be handled well, people are going to have questions,” he opines. “The media’s not just going to be able to sit there and say, ‘Oh, everything’s fine. Don’t worry.'”
As for the millions of viewers who have abandoned cable news completely, Drennen points out they have a lot of choices.
“There’s so many different news websites out there – conservative, center, left-leaning ones. [And] there’s a lot of citizen-journalists out there now. Just get a wide variety of news,” he urges.
On a related note, The Associated Press acknowledges that the media is “grappling” with how to cover the post-White House Trump. Somehow, AP reports, the 45th president has managed to keep a hold on the public’s attention – despite being two weeks removed from office and suspended from his Twitter account.
“A measurement of news page views online shows Trump had more than double the attention of President Joe Biden on most days in January – before and after Biden’s inauguration,” says AP. And with an unprecedented second impeachment trial set to begin next week, “that’s not likely to end anytime soon,” says the news service.
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Copyright American Family News. Reprinted with permission.
“start acting like the press is supposed to act”. Since when are the communists in the Pravda press, going to change their Fake News? Since when do communists, ever tell the truth?
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, some people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the
“Socialist Democrat Party State” can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie.
It becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the “Socialist Democrat Party State.”
AND till ADVERTISERS stop financing those news agencies, THEY WON’T change.
Probably very difficult to show this admin. in a good light when the president of the “once most powerful country” in the world does not know where he is or what he is doing. That pretty much sums up where we are headed. The women who are his handlers are pure evil and he is just their satanic puppet. Not too much there to report on. America was abandoned fours years ago when the media decided to ride on satans coat tails.
The Lib media has already totally killed the Hunter Biden Story, and to this day, unlike the throat kneeing Minneapolis police officers who were outed in about 10 minutes, we still do not know the name of the officer who shot that young lady in the Capitol? Surprise, Surprise, says the Gomer piles of media excrement who know nothing of American Journalism and sold out for their 15 minutes of infamy. So many Americans have fallen asleep watching CNN and MSNBC and had their unconscious minds filled each night with Hate of Anything American, it will take generations to undo the psychological damage. They hated Trump, but they hate American more and that will go on as before by the Democrat Doctors of Indoctrination, university trained on the soon to be Biden student debt forgiven dime of WE THE PEOPLE they seek to destroy.
AND imo, we never WILL know that officer’s name…
“it will be interesting over the next couple of years to see if the mainstream news media will maintain their role of Biden “cheerleader” – or if they’ll abandon their anti-Trump activism and start acting like the press is supposed to act.”
Let’s see here:
Bash Reagan
Bash Bush 1
Cover for Clinton
Cover for Clinton
Bash Bush 2
Bash Bush 2
Hail Obama
Hail Obama
Bash Trump
Where does “the past four years” differ from the previous 28? How could they change from the only position they know?
That’s the thing. THEY CAN’T, or more correctly, WON’T!