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Media Casualties of War
The media’s long-standing reign of unaccountability is finally coming to an end, and the wreckage is piling up. For decades, the fourth estate wielded its power unchecked, morphing from a trusted source of information into a propaganda machine for the Left. But as the saying goes, “You messed with the wrong guy.” Enter Donald J. Trump.
Trump isn’t just holding a mirror to the media’s lies; he’s smashing it over their heads. The fallout is spectacular, as media giants scramble to reinvent themselves in the face of collapsing credibility and dwindling viewership. This isn’t just a reckoning—it’s a revolution. And with Elon Musk adding fuel to the fire, the media’s retreat from its ivory tower has become a stampede.
A Crisis of Conscience? Or Just Desperation?
Even some insiders are calling out their own institutions. Case in point: David Maraniss, a Washington Post veteran, who recently denounced his paper’s editorial team for equating Biden’s questionable pardons with Trump’s January 6 pardons.
A longtime associate editor at the Washington Post criticized his own newspaper for an editorial that blasted both President Trump and his predecessor, President Joe Biden, for having “both abused their pardon powers” and “setting dangerous precedents.”
David Maraniss, who has spent nearly five decades at the Washington Post, took to social media on Wednesday and bemoaned the fact that his employer “has utterly lost its soul.”
“The Washington Post editorial this morning essentially equating Biden’s questionable pardons with Trump’s outrageous Jan. 6 pardons was unconscionable,” Maraniss wrote on the Bluesky microblogging platform on Wednesday.
When one of your own lifers declares the paper has “utterly lost its soul,” you’re not on a slippery slope—you’ve already hit rock bottom.
Media Layoffs: A “Reorganization” in Name Only
The chickens have come home to roost at CNN, where layoffs and pay cuts are hitting their highest-paid anchors. Dylan Byers of Puck captured the carnage:
Following the departures of Chris Wallace and denial of raises to Wolf Blitzer and Jake Tapper, some of the highest-paid stars could be on the chopping block.
“In the next few months, I’m told, CNN will implement another round of layoffs that will impact hundreds of employees across the organization,” Puck reporter Dylan Byers (via The Daily Mail) wrote.
Even CNN’s leadership admits the need for an overhaul.
CNN is laying off around 6% of its workforce, the company announced Thursday morning, as it institutes sweeping new changes to the 45-year-old news network, including a new weekday show lineup and digital strategy.
CNN CEO Mark Thompson announced that CNN will soon unveil a new streaming service, a redesigned digital footprint and new subscriber services as well as the new show lineup. CNN parent company Warner Bros. Discovery is investing $70 million into CNN’s digital plans, Thompson said.
Translation: Throw money at the problem and hope nobody notices the sinking ship. But viewers have already noticed—and they’re tuning out.
CBS dumped Norah O’Donnell, who was no friend to Trump or the truth:
O’Donnell bid farewell to viewers of the long-running broadcast after a surprise taped cameo from Oprah Winfrey which celebrated the anchor and showed many highlights of her tenure. O’Donnell thanked the audience for welcoming “hard news with heart into your homes,” and was spotted being surrounded by colleagues and family as the show’s credits began to roll. Coming Monday: a completely overhauled edition of the program that is taking pains to break many visual ties to the days when Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather told the nation what was most important at the end of their day.
But there are more, including Maddow’s move.
President Trump posted this of Maddow, a telling foreboding. I haven’t seen her ratings, but I believe the president. Why would Maddow’s ratings improve given her coverage of Trump. Further, she’s the biggest liar of all the media pundits.
The move for Maddow to cover Trump’s first 100 days has been a flop. Prediction: the flop will metastasize.
The Bigger Picture: A Global Awakening
Between Trump’s relentless exposure of media corruption and Musk’s unfiltered critiques on platforms like X, common sense is making a comeback. What we’re witnessing isn’t just a media reckoning; it’s a societal awakening. The Left’s grip on narrative control is slipping, and people are waking up—not just in America, but around the world.
Trump has forced the media to confront the inconvenient truth: lies don’t pay. The more they cling to their old ways, the faster they’ll fade into irrelevance. And with every misstep, they’re proving his point.
As they say in journalism, if it bleeds, it leads. Unfortunately for the media, they’re the ones bleeding—and this time, nobody’s buying their spin.
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