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
    16·
    7 hours 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.

  • masterofn001
    27·
    11 hours 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.

    • Jumi@lemmy.world
      21·
      9 hours ago

      Bold of you to assume that whatever you have over there ever qualified as democracy.

      • masterofn001
        3·
        7 hours ago

        Am not American.

        “Democracy dies in darkness”

        That is?/was the NY Times tagline.

        Just a simple observation on how Jeff bezos sold whatever he may have claimed to be a soul and whatever was left of any semblance of democracy to appease the god-king-emperor.

  • SarcasticMan@lemmy.world
    36·
    12 hours 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.

    • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      23·
      13 hours 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
    72·
    14 hours 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.”

  • einlander@lemmy.world
    35·
    14 hours ago

    Should have thought about it before giving him so much favorable press.

    The leopard are yearning faces.

  • Avid Amoeba
    16·
    14 hours 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
    3·
    12 hours 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@kbin.melroy.org
    318·
    14 hours 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.