One of the most exciting and anticipated changes in Trump’s second term is the downfall of the corporate news media in America. We have often addressed their continued fall from public favor and ratings, but their demise is now essentially complete. It’s time to break out the funeral procession and bury corporate media once and for all, just like Phyllis Schlafly did for the Equal Rights Amendment when it failed ratification.
The epic downfall of these media elites (formerly known as “mainstream media”) began in earnest during Donald Trump’s first term in office. They simply could not hold in their hatred of normal Americans any longer. The veil of “bias” disappeared and was replaced with outright hatred, violent rhetoric, and pure “fake news” reporting. Throughout Trump’s first term, they obsessed over him and lied about him constantly, acting essentially as the communications department of the Democrat Party.
After eight years of fighting their narratives from inside and outside the White House, Donald J. Trump figured out how to beat them (again). Last fall he simply skipped the traditional media circuit of a presidential candidate. Instead, Trump went straight to the people, taking part in so many multi-hour podcast interviews that it boggled the mind. He bypassed the corporate media’s stranglehold on TV and print media, opting instead to go straight to people’s smartphones on the podcasts that everyday Americans listen to. Vice President JD Vance followed suit, and the results were marvelous.
The dozens if not hundreds of hours of interviews with Trump and Vance not only connected them to the American people in an incredibly humanizing way, but it showed their breadth and depth of knowledge that the Harris-Walz ticket simply couldn’t compete with. Now, Trump is taking his victory lap by opening up White House Press Briefings to hundreds of new media outlets and citizen- journalists. Most exciting of all is the unfiltered stream of Trump, as he participates in impromptu press gaggles at a pace that we haven’t seen in… well, four very long years.
This post originally appeared at https://www.phyllisschlafly.com/constitution/free-speech/the-corporate-media-is-dead/
Phyllis Schlafly