Monday, April 28, 2025

After Decimating Their Credibility, Networks Still Spew 'Relentlessly Hostile' Trump Coverage

 Bob Hoge


"You’re not imagining it—you’re living in a misinformation world where the major broadcast networks are regularly depicting a country that you don’t live in. For four years, they told us that Joe Biden was just fine—sharp as a tack—even though our own eyes told us otherwise.

"Since 2016, they’ve tried to convince us that Donald Trump is Hitler reincarnate, even as he’s made major efforts to stomp out antisemitism in this country and has made no move to kill six million Jews.

"Have they learned anything as their reputations have cratered and no one trusts them anymore? Of course not. They continue on their relentless campaign to demonize conservatives while pushing radical woke ideology down the throats of low-information voters. The numbers bear it out:

"Just 100 days into President Donald Trump’s second term, the broadcast evening news landscape is even more lopsided than it was eight years ago, when Trump was besieged with relentlessly hostile coverage. So far this year, the new Trump administration has faced a withering 92% negative coverage from ABC, CBS and NBC, whose flagship news programs averaged more than 19.3 million viewers during the first quarter of 2025, making them the most widely-watched news programs in the country.

"I know some readers, when faced with stories like this, say, “Who cares? Nobody watches these gaslighting idiots anyway." Unfortunately, that is not the case—as the Newsbusters report indicates, almost 20 million viewers tune in on average to these lie-fests. We can ignore it, but we do so at our own peril—just remember, we got Joe Biden for four miserable years." . . .

 WHCA 'Nerd Prom'   Marked by Insulting Gaslighting and the Press Learning Zero Lessons   "For reference, Daniels is a host on MSNBC, the most far-left network in existence. Have he and his fellow press members comported themselves as the "opposition?" Absolutely. I'd also cool it with the talk of great sacrifice from a class of people who mostly work from their couches if they aren't sitting in cushy studios. 

"Included in Daniels' words is the rank arrogance and inability to admit fault that has turned the mainstream press into a pariah. Progress would be admitting there are issues, changing their approach, and trying to regain trust. What's not progress is doubling down on how important they supposedly are while lying to people about their motivations and concerns for the public trust. 

"Remember when a verbatim question from a reporter ended up on a pre-printed Biden notecard, complete with a picture of who the questioner would be and her name spelled phonetically (because he was and remains senile)? The WHCA has still provided no explanation, and the journalist involved sits on its board." . . .

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