The audience didn’t disappear—the audience migrated. People are still glued to the story, they’re just not getting it from the old gatekeepers anymore. When TV news traded reporting for panels and narratives, viewers went where the information felt faster, rawer, and less filtered. Under Donald Trump, that disconnect became impossible to ignore. The war is being followed in real time—just not on legacy broadcasts. That 42% drop isn’t apathy, it’s rejection. The public didn’t tune out—they tuned elsewhere. And until MSM figures that out, those numbers aren’t coming back.
Agreed. I consume far more reporting than I ever have in my life, but it’s primarily through Substack and podcasts. I’ve never been better informed of what’s actually happening. I read Don first every morning, then Jeff Childers’ Coffee and Covid, and Promethean Action podcasts 3 times a week. It’s an amazing time to be alive and watch all of the devils implode. I read a lot of other substacks too, but not daily. I basically laugh out loud when some journalist tries sneaking in the old rotten liberal ways in an article, like NO!!!!——your time is up!
03/23/26: Childers's Coffee and Covid has been invaluable! I no longer even look at the NY Post for anything other than the very rare, non-cliche-larded, non-nagging Op-Ed and on occasion, the sports news. Meanwhile, Jake Tapper can't remember what he said yesterday, and A. Cooper in the above photo looks like an albino tennis ball in a corrupt news racket (pun intended).
Agreed, invaluable. He connects all of the dots so you can see the entire picture. Promethean does the same with a laser focus on Britain's role in the post-WW2 order & how they've profited for decades off of chaos in the ME.
Q; “I wonder when we'll have the 1st female Secretary of War.”
A: “Senator Elizabeth Warren wears a mean Indian war bonnett. So does Senator Lindsay Graham, except that when he wears it, he looks like Elizabeth Warren.”
Lindsay Graham: “Everything tastes better with a war bonnet on it! ”
[“ … 1970-80s TV commercials … the "Everything's Better with Blue Bonnet on It" jingle was commonly performed in the key of F major or G major …, often sung by a bright, cheerful chorus … a melody that emphasized a light, simple tonality.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pkm4HY-3cD8&t=1s]
03/23/26: Warning: Although I think the price charged for C&C is worth it, you will probably get sticker shock when you see it. I wonder if he lowered his price, he'd actually in the long run make more profit. But what do I know?
In addition to Don S., I still check sundance at CTH every day. He always has solid receipts I don't see elsewhere, and I'm used to taking his mega-paranoid streak with all the salt it needs.
Promethean is on You Tube & you can subscribe for free to the updates. I like their 12-15 minute posts the most, which are usually twice a week. They are historians so their view is the long view. Jeff Childers is BOMB! He's very pricey so I'm a free subscriber but you can give tips to both Jeff & Promethean.
Citizen Free Press, Gateway Pundit, X, various email newsletters, are all better sources of news than ANY of the MSM. I heard that CBS radio news was going away and my first thought was “CBS has a radio news service?”
Panels have their place, they are opinion and can be insightful. But the news coming off the "news" desk is no longer viewed as news, because it isn't. It too is opinion, though we know Kronkite was also more opinion than we realized. Once you see the man behind the wizard's curtain, and by now most people have seen it, it isn't going to be trusted again. The MSM numbers are never coming back. They are gone, and as the old boomers go on their final resting place, the numbers will almost disappear.
It's like the polls - a news outfit will commission a poll & if the poll results go along with their agenda, they'll report it as news. If not, they'll bury it.
03/23/26: I differ from Don Surber's opinion in that I don't care whether or not the above named panels are right-or-left-wing stacked decks.
The people in them are BORING, utter devoid of wit, genuine humor (not sarcasm), and intellectual curiosity.
Their brains were relentlessly computer-"bullet-pointed" growing up; they last read books in 1996, 2002, 2014 (or NEVER); and today, they're preening parrots in TV cages.
I think Uncle Walter was the turning point. When he said “the Vietnam War is lost” after Tet of 1968 (in which the Viet Cong “shot their wad”) he was lying. The Viet Cong was effectively killed off during Tet, yes they struck every base in Vietnam, but they were repulsed and were done. Then the NVA took the initiative. My buddy is also a Vietnam Vet and his neighbor is a former NVA soldier, WTF, how did he get in here? My buddy says the guy is an arrogant prick. Our politicians have certainly screwed up our country. I’m riding with the Orange Man until the end!
I'd have taken offence to that, but as a boomer, I have way too many otherwise intelligent friends who still only watch the local ABC, CBS and NBC affiliates for their "news." No matter how many times I try to get them to expand their sources.
I'm making a pretty tame observation that the demographics for the MSM TV news/cable news services are every old, and as they pass on, the available audience for these news' products will continue to shrink, thus the numbers they once had will never be attainable again. No one else is really watching, so the service will die off since the market for news is no longer satisfied by the MSM folks.
It had nothing to do with the stupidity or non-stupidity of the boomer generation in general.
Perfectly put-- "Once you see the man behind the wizard's curtain, and by now most people have seen it, it isn't going to be trusted again."
The primary asset of any news organization is their credibility. When their credibility goes, their audience goes. Plus, it will be extremely difficult to ever get it back. Only a complete and public change of purpose, personnel, and often even of ownership, will convince people to even BEGIN considering giving it another chance.
(This is why our best hope for awakening the liberals we know is to get them to just start viewing a couple news sources on the Right.)
Actually, Twitter is a perfect example--new ownership, totally new purpose--freedom of speech--and drastically new personnel. IIRC, Elon dropped 80% of the old Twitter staff; and when Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss exposed the old Twitter censorship, and it became apparent that James Baker (a Deep State FBI snake that became General Counsel of Twitter), and was found to be hiding info from Taibbi and Weiss that proved government involvement in the old Twitter's censorship--Elon fired him within 24 hours.
Something I love about the new media that have grown up on the Right in the past 20 years, for the most part they BEND OVER BACKWARDS to be accurate, and " 'fess up" as soon as they realize they've made a mistake. They are building their new media house on Rock, not on sand.
03/23/26: Senator Elizabeth Warren wears a mean Indian war bonnett. So does Senator Lindsay Graham, except that when he wears it, he looks like Elizabeth Warren.
Oh, there will be signs. I will have been executed for asking her in a news conference when she was gonna clean up the mess that she made over there and that she was wrong for starting it in the first place.
I have liked the History Channel's The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch. But that alone couldn't justify the monthly cable bill, so pulled the plug last June.
Because of his blatant distortion of the facts, I thought the US was defeated in the Tet Offensive. I’m from Texas and I also remember asking my dad why was the national news always talking about the NE United States and not the rest of the country.
Liberal bias then, liberal bias now.
Haven’t watched national news on the big 3 for over 50 years because of what I experienced in my childhood.
I can’t say it’s been 50 years but when I discovered FOX News when I returned to the States after being deployed overseas 25 years ago I never went back to the mainstream news outlets.
I followed a similar path until election night 2020 when I realized that Bret Baier was on the other side. Haven't watched it since except for the Five, for a while. Now zip.
Hold on, now Douglas! Bret may be a squirrel (or is it a woodchuck) but the real villain that awful night calling my state of AZ 1 minute after the polls closed was Chris Stierwalt. He's been gone from Fox a long time, so I finally came back when Jesse W took the prime time spot. At least he's entertaining.
It wasn't Bret, it was the Fox News Decision Desk head. I believe his name was Aaron Mishkin. He could not hide his glee at decisions that went against Trump. He for sure had to be in on the 2020 Coup conspiracy.
Me too. At 9:00 p.m. Eastern time watching FOX election results Britt Hume was sitting amongst Baier and company while they were carrying on like a bunch of high schoolers. They came back from commercial break and Britt was gone. And so was I.
I’m waiting for Trump to get out of office and start his own cable news company. Truth TV. Or MAGA TV. Or MAGA News. Something along those lines. Round the clock Trump-selected reporters doing nothing but reporting real news with the occasional interview of Trump commenting on whatever is on his mind at the moment. He’d kill it.
All you have to do is watch the celebrity awards shows and witness glorification by the networks of haters of USA and Trump. That demonstrates the mindset of the network operators and producers against any level of sanity in presenting information. CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC news motto is 'Go Negative Nightly'.
Just had to laugh at your comment because you hit the nail right on the head! That’s EXACTLY why I can’t watch them. The commercials offer NOTHING of interest to me and I can’t identify with the people in them.
Not to mention all the pharma commercials that tell you more about why you SHOULDN"T take the crap than why you should....exhausting. Again the actors...who do they represent? No one I know.
Failla is amusing but I can't stand and don't understand Gutfeld and his mouth is getting a lot dirtier than I like when I do tune it because of who else is on with him. Sorry for the run on sentence, lol.
It wasn’t dad for me, but a hay hauler I worked for as a teenager. Ww2 vet changed my view. Then I went overseas and saw how socialist governments were awful. Then in 78 or 79 there was an industrial accident in west Virginia AND WHILE WIFES WERE LOOKING AT BODIES OF DEAD MEN TO IDENTIFY THEIR HUSBAND A CBS REPORTER WAS ASKING HOW THEY FELT. Shut it off and have only very rarely been back and only for special events such as the gulf war Reagan’s funeral. Etc.
“Fox has the conservative audience covered but trying to appease liberals is a fool’s errand for CNN and MS NOW because liberals are never satisfied.”
Allow me to respond with my favorite quote from the late great PJ O’Rourke…
"At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child - miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats."
Loved his commencement address essay in 2008. This excerpt is my favorite:
Well, I’m here to speak in favor of unfairness. I’ve got a ten-year-old at home. And she’s always saying, “That’s not fair.” When she says that, I say, “Honey, you’re cute. That’s not fair. Your family is pretty well off. That’s not fair. You were born in America. That’s not fair. Darling, you had better pray to God that things don’t start getting fair for you.”
I’ll keep that in mind for my grandkids! When our daughter was small and would complain about not getting something, my husband would break into “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” by the Stones. She’s 35 now and still hates that song!
And another one that I had to teach my granddaughter the other day is from Reagan. "There's nothing wrong with democrats except that they know so much that just isn't so."
Great Quote! I read his book: " Parliament of Whores". He was not afraid to tell the truth. Eespecially in an irreverent way... to those least worthy and accepting of it!
Fetterman was asked on some newscast who he thought the leader of the Democrat party was today and he answered, “TDS”, that hating and blaming Trump was all that mattered to them and no matter what Trump did, or whatever events may be occurring, disparaging Trump was the single most tippety-top priority, and for any member to stray from that position meant certain ostracism.
Ten years too late, corporate media figured out their audience hates forever wars. So, they are assuming nothing will be accomplished in this war and are preaching to the Guardians of Decay. They haven't figured out that Trump is not like Bush Jr., Obama or Biden. DJT actually knows what he is doing, knows how to get the best out of the military, and is kicking ass now to prevent forever wars for the next generation.
My interpretation is darker. I believe the AmerPravda are 💯 percent aware that this war is entirely different from those of the globalcommie puppet quagmires.
But they lie, hoping their conflation will put the left back in power.
You should have led with the poll. Based on a chart showing Iran’s range, Scotland is toast. Meanwhile, here in the US the radicals and their only average rabid cousin Dems are laser focused on midterms to they can have a public hanging of their own of a sitting President. In which case, Britain and Europe are toast.
First they have to admit that Islam is an existential threat. It advocates apocalypse and its precepts are destructive to achieve that end. They raise their children to choose death.
I believe there is just too much fear of Muslims to do that. Golly - even during the Crusades when they believed in Christian theology the crusaders gave up and left Islam in Christian cities. Only when Muslim mothers stop raising their children to become suicide bombers will it stop.
Alan Combs now that's a blast from the past. His sister was tougher than he was.
Best decision here in the past 6 years was to cut the cable/dish.
Broadcast news is bad. The shows, white married man dumb. Colored women smart and without baby thugs. And the ghey couple adorable even tho one has aids
I also was getting worried our Don had expired overnight! Don’t scare us like that, Don! Your middle name is usually Punctuality! (I read Don first, then Jenna, then Childers then I’m done.) 🥴
White man dumb / black women smart also on corporate training videos & commercials. Always found it insulting to have to watch those required diversity training videos.
I retired in 2022 & my first thought was thank God I don't have to sit through anymore of those ridiculous videos. My last position (from 2016 - 2022) was as a IT consultant at ConEd - and I still had to watch those videos even though I was not an employee of ConEd.
When I retired in 2018, I thought I was done with all that BS. Couple years later, at a PT job, my boss called me in one day and apologized, but I had to watch these training videos corporate sent around. We all watched them in small groups and laughed our asses off at them.
I quit watching all television in the late 90s. I turned it on one evening, clicked through a couple hundred channels and couldn’t find a single thing worth my time. I even tried to get hubby to get rid of the TV altogether, but he watches a lot of sports.
Surber is my first stop in the morning followed by Twitchy for the humor, and then several other conservative news sites.
We got rid of all our TV's years ago (picked up by the Salvation Army). The only time we see TV is when we're on vacation. I'll flip through the channels & think of that song, "57 channels & nothings on".
I still have several TVs but they are mostly machines for multiple rewatches of classic movies and tv shows. I put them on in the background while working around the house.
I do have Real America's Voice for any breaking news.
That explains why I never miss TV. I've never cared about sports, and have done very well without it. Although -- once in a while somebody will try to chat me up about some game, and I get a funny look when I plead ignorance.
I have to admit, the network news business baffles me. Yes, they are terribly biased and just really bad at reporting, but how do they still operate? Many of the news readers make huge salaries. Yet the ratings still go down. In business, you watch your bottom line carefully and when you see it dip you quickly figure out what is happening and FIX IT. The people behind the scenes running cable news are not stupid. So why do they not fix it? Someone told me it was because they know that when the other side in DC gets the reigns of power back the audiences will come back to cable networks as well. Except history has proved that wrong. Two questions then, why do they not fix the networks to return to some profitability, and who is propping up these networks while they continue to die?
As shown by DOGE, Dem govts paid the networks so they'd continue with the Dem narrative. I would bet that has gone on for decades. So basically, we that taxpayers have been propping up the networks through nefarious politicians. But I agree Reddog, why aren't they learning? Probably bc the networks are all based in NYC, which is overwhelmingly liberal, and they'd be ostracized by society.
If the evidence uncovered by DOGE is valid then you are right. I’m still waiting for someone in Dem government to come forward and confirm it. Maybe we haven’t hit rock bottom yet.
Most people would become one if the paycheck was big enough. But doesn’t answer the questions, why is a failed business model still being used and who is propping this up?
The owners of the Left Media are not fixing their bias because their goal is not making money with the network. The GOAL is to push the narrative and control the belief-system of as many Americans as possible, in order to subvert and conquer our country. These Left news outlets are being financially subsidized by anti-American deep pockets from many domestic and international sources (China, Globalists, Communists, etc.).
We don't know EXACTLY who they are, though DOGE has helped and we are getting SOME more specifics. But any intrepid young reporters who want to make a name for themselves should probe into this.
I have watched the media react to Nick Shirley and his exposure of how corrupt states are with respect to using our Medicare tax dollars for vote buying. It is almost as if the media does not know how to respond to this kid and what he has done with almost zero dollars. A kid with a GoPro camera and his own money has done more than all news networks combined in reporting corruption. He i the poster boy for what the media should be.
Big pharma pays the bills. When corporate media decided to allow commercials on the news, that’s when hard news left the building and infotainment walked in, along with the leftist bias that was always lurking in Huntley-Brinkley land. Newsreaders became “anchors” and media stars, and celebrities and it never went back to white guys in suits with serious expressions. They also dumped their world-wide coverage and foreign correspondents. CNN got the airport’s captured and began the cable revolution and then competition for 24-hour information heated up, bringing us “morning shows” and rampant opinion television. It’s not an accident that Disney took over ABC. The FCC is meaningless, as cable and subscription tv has dominated. It’s all a waste of $$.
You may very well be correct. As my wife puts it, the MSM has become no different than reality tv today. They cannot exist without sensationalism. They may say they reporting the news but they are really just entertainers today, vying for a dwindling viewership. And when we lost journalism, we lost accountability in government.
It used to be in this country you could fool some of the people all of the time, and most of the people some of the time. But the characters we’re dealing with these days can’t fool anyone anytime and the people who say they believe them are pathological liars and know it. Or just brain dead.
Some CNN poll said over 60% of the respondents thought we were losing the war with Iran. That literally tells you everything you to know about their coverage and biases.
OMG! I had completely forgotten about Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah & had to look it up on YT. Thank you, it made my day. All agendas aside, at what point do these people, both in front & behind the camera, think. I mean actually think. I understand the trajectory change with Rush Limbaugh, but whether you agreed with him or not, he brought the goods for back up not manufactured DEI nonsense. Between fake news & fake politicians, it is unbearable. Here is a link to Black Conservative Perspective that gave as good an update/analysis on/after Bessent’s interview on NBC https://youtu.be/kv9Ups5AkX8?si=skOpA0X4i6Fnmjyf.
Not only did it highlight how stupid it is to send Kristen Welker up against Bessent, but focused on Trump’s probable long term plan. Did/does Greg Foreman have a viewpoint, yes, but he provides enough information for the listener to make up his own mind. Dragnet’s tag line, “just the facts, ma’am.”
I would watch Legacy news if: 1. They would honestly investigate and accurate report on Fraud, 2. Honestly investigate and accurately report on the Dem governance problem in our big cities.
I recall reading about a program, sponsored by some UN Organization, offered to journalists, whose entire curriculum was designed to teach current and prospective journalists how to manipulate any and every story with an angle that supported their Leftist theories, particularly those dealing with climate change and immigration, no matter how completely detached that story might be from having anything whatsoever to do with those theories.
The AP Stylebook, officially titled The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law, is the definitive style and usage guide for American English grammar, punctuation, spelling, and journalistic standards created by the Associated Press (AP). It serves as the primary reference for journalists, editors, students, and professionals in newsrooms, classrooms, and corporate communications worldwide.
It's dreck too. Like trying to map the dunes in the Sahara. The AP Stylebook changes with the wind. It's everything the leftists could want: racist, sexist and touchy-feely. Blagh.
A few of them have openly said things like, "where does it say that we have to be objective" and that they are permitted to take a side. Then, they claim that they are indeed objective independent reporters. Lying in real time.
The audience didn’t disappear—the audience migrated. People are still glued to the story, they’re just not getting it from the old gatekeepers anymore. When TV news traded reporting for panels and narratives, viewers went where the information felt faster, rawer, and less filtered. Under Donald Trump, that disconnect became impossible to ignore. The war is being followed in real time—just not on legacy broadcasts. That 42% drop isn’t apathy, it’s rejection. The public didn’t tune out—they tuned elsewhere. And until MSM figures that out, those numbers aren’t coming back.
Agreed. I consume far more reporting than I ever have in my life, but it’s primarily through Substack and podcasts. I’ve never been better informed of what’s actually happening. I read Don first every morning, then Jeff Childers’ Coffee and Covid, and Promethean Action podcasts 3 times a week. It’s an amazing time to be alive and watch all of the devils implode. I read a lot of other substacks too, but not daily. I basically laugh out loud when some journalist tries sneaking in the old rotten liberal ways in an article, like NO!!!!——your time is up!
03/23/26: Childers's Coffee and Covid has been invaluable! I no longer even look at the NY Post for anything other than the very rare, non-cliche-larded, non-nagging Op-Ed and on occasion, the sports news. Meanwhile, Jake Tapper can't remember what he said yesterday, and A. Cooper in the above photo looks like an albino tennis ball in a corrupt news racket (pun intended).
Agreed, invaluable. He connects all of the dots so you can see the entire picture. Promethean does the same with a laser focus on Britain's role in the post-WW2 order & how they've profited for decades off of chaos in the ME.
Q; “I wonder when we'll have the 1st female Secretary of War.”
A: “Senator Elizabeth Warren wears a mean Indian war bonnett. So does Senator Lindsay Graham, except that when he wears it, he looks like Elizabeth Warren.”
We should never have a female Sec of War!
A) Margaret Thatcher did well in this respect; B) What is "ME"?
Lindsay Graham: “Everything tastes better with a war bonnet on it! ”
[“ … 1970-80s TV commercials … the "Everything's Better with Blue Bonnet on It" jingle was commonly performed in the key of F major or G major …, often sung by a bright, cheerful chorus … a melody that emphasized a light, simple tonality.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pkm4HY-3cD8&t=1s]
Agreed. I like the Post for it's focus on NY area politics, as they're the only ones holding Mamdani to account.
I love Promethean Action. Will have to check out Childers.
03/23/26: Warning: Although I think the price charged for C&C is worth it, you will probably get sticker shock when you see it. I wonder if he lowered his price, he'd actually in the long run make more profit. But what do I know?
We somehow read him for free. I’m sure there’s a fee for extra reads but even with free one can access comments and comment as well
I take it a day late. I live in the panhandle where everything is late or second hand. I love it.
I need to check out both.
In addition to Don S., I still check sundance at CTH every day. He always has solid receipts I don't see elsewhere, and I'm used to taking his mega-paranoid streak with all the salt it needs.
Promethean is on You Tube & you can subscribe for free to the updates. I like their 12-15 minute posts the most, which are usually twice a week. They are historians so their view is the long view. Jeff Childers is BOMB! He's very pricey so I'm a free subscriber but you can give tips to both Jeff & Promethean.
You are in for a TREAT!!!!! Btw, you can be a free subscriber as I am bc he's super pricey.
I recently discovered Promethian Action. Interesting, but I am a bit cautious due to their association with the lunatic Lyndon LaRouche.
I also faithfully follow all 3
Citizen Free Press, Gateway Pundit, X, various email newsletters, are all better sources of news than ANY of the MSM. I heard that CBS radio news was going away and my first thought was “CBS has a radio news service?”
I’m on the same schedule
Panels have their place, they are opinion and can be insightful. But the news coming off the "news" desk is no longer viewed as news, because it isn't. It too is opinion, though we know Kronkite was also more opinion than we realized. Once you see the man behind the wizard's curtain, and by now most people have seen it, it isn't going to be trusted again. The MSM numbers are never coming back. They are gone, and as the old boomers go on their final resting place, the numbers will almost disappear.
It's like the polls - a news outfit will commission a poll & if the poll results go along with their agenda, they'll report it as news. If not, they'll bury it.
03/23/26: I differ from Don Surber's opinion in that I don't care whether or not the above named panels are right-or-left-wing stacked decks.
The people in them are BORING, utter devoid of wit, genuine humor (not sarcasm), and intellectual curiosity.
Their brains were relentlessly computer-"bullet-pointed" growing up; they last read books in 1996, 2002, 2014 (or NEVER); and today, they're preening parrots in TV cages.
As the exception to prove your rule, I offer Scott Jennings.
03/23/26: Is it possible to fairly compensate someone who has his job?
It's been my experience that they almost all go sour after long exposure to the idiots that they work with. Not so Jennings, I hope.
Exactly
03/23/26: [France flipped and is now supporting the Hormuz fleet action]
Thank goodness that The Frogs have changed their minds!
We now can reap the benefit of the French military mess halls with the crêpes --- can’t go to war without crêpes suzette!
"It is famous for being flambéed tableside, a dramatic technique that ignites the alcohol, burns off the harshness, and caramelizes the sauce."
Well, we beat them to the punch, having flambéed the Iranian navy and caramelized the Ayatollah and his top 100 goat-horny cohorts.
ribbit...ribbit
Bingo!
ribbit
The real problem, as Don notes, is that they are a STACKED DECK. $ Rs one D..or versa visa
I think Uncle Walter was the turning point. When he said “the Vietnam War is lost” after Tet of 1968 (in which the Viet Cong “shot their wad”) he was lying. The Viet Cong was effectively killed off during Tet, yes they struck every base in Vietnam, but they were repulsed and were done. Then the NVA took the initiative. My buddy is also a Vietnam Vet and his neighbor is a former NVA soldier, WTF, how did he get in here? My buddy says the guy is an arrogant prick. Our politicians have certainly screwed up our country. I’m riding with the Orange Man until the end!
You sure think we boomers are stupid, don't you? You're implying that by treating us as monolithic.
I'd have taken offence to that, but as a boomer, I have way too many otherwise intelligent friends who still only watch the local ABC, CBS and NBC affiliates for their "news." No matter how many times I try to get them to expand their sources.
It hardly matters if they do not watch the traditional media if the only sources they view are such as Politico, Axios and Yahoo News.
ABCCBSNBC one for all and for for one - one big shit show..Same show different channel
Yup.
I'm making a pretty tame observation that the demographics for the MSM TV news/cable news services are every old, and as they pass on, the available audience for these news' products will continue to shrink, thus the numbers they once had will never be attainable again. No one else is really watching, so the service will die off since the market for news is no longer satisfied by the MSM folks.
It had nothing to do with the stupidity or non-stupidity of the boomer generation in general.
I generally appreciate what Harold Ford Jr has to say but my mute button always a gets a workout whenever Tarloff is moving her lips
That goes for any libtard on Tv.
Perfectly put-- "Once you see the man behind the wizard's curtain, and by now most people have seen it, it isn't going to be trusted again."
The primary asset of any news organization is their credibility. When their credibility goes, their audience goes. Plus, it will be extremely difficult to ever get it back. Only a complete and public change of purpose, personnel, and often even of ownership, will convince people to even BEGIN considering giving it another chance.
(This is why our best hope for awakening the liberals we know is to get them to just start viewing a couple news sources on the Right.)
Actually, Twitter is a perfect example--new ownership, totally new purpose--freedom of speech--and drastically new personnel. IIRC, Elon dropped 80% of the old Twitter staff; and when Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss exposed the old Twitter censorship, and it became apparent that James Baker (a Deep State FBI snake that became General Counsel of Twitter), and was found to be hiding info from Taibbi and Weiss that proved government involvement in the old Twitter's censorship--Elon fired him within 24 hours.
Something I love about the new media that have grown up on the Right in the past 20 years, for the most part they BEND OVER BACKWARDS to be accurate, and " 'fess up" as soon as they realize they've made a mistake. They are building their new media house on Rock, not on sand.
Dare I say it: the men who formerly reported news were men with credibility. Who really thinks a woman knows much about the business of war.
Even in the sixties the "giants" of television news were lying to us.
I wonder when we'll have the 1st female Secretary of War.
03/23/26: Senator Elizabeth Warren wears a mean Indian war bonnett. So does Senator Lindsay Graham, except that when he wears it, he looks like Elizabeth Warren.
I hope someone quickly tells ol’ Lindsay how many Marines died on Iwo Jima. He can go fight in Iran’s sandbox if he’s so anxious to fight.
My thoughts exactly. He should lead the charge in his camo tutu.
Oh, there will be signs. I will have been executed for asking her in a news conference when she was gonna clean up the mess that she made over there and that she was wrong for starting it in the first place.
Next time a dem gets elected
The left likes to have a "first" for any position - even when a Republican Admin beats them to it.
Some of them were. Too many were not, as hindsight illuminates the past.
The media tells you A story; not THE story.
They should start their shows with " once upon a time in a land far far away".
Maybe they could used the opener from Star Wars.
Lol
Tell-A-Lie Vision
Agree , but Don also makes a very real statement . If you're not watching sports or old reruns there is no quality on the TV.
I have liked the History Channel's The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch. But that alone couldn't justify the monthly cable bill, so pulled the plug last June.
Get an Amazon Fire Stick ; a lot of stuff on their for free .
I like Yankees Classics. They're undefeated!
Exactly. Our B.S. detectors have been pegged for over a decade. Once the garden is covered... nobody wants anymore POOP!
I remember, when I was about 12 years old,
watching the news with Walter Cronkite.
Because of his blatant distortion of the facts, I thought the US was defeated in the Tet Offensive. I’m from Texas and I also remember asking my dad why was the national news always talking about the NE United States and not the rest of the country.
Liberal bias then, liberal bias now.
Haven’t watched national news on the big 3 for over 50 years because of what I experienced in my childhood.
I can’t say it’s been 50 years but when I discovered FOX News when I returned to the States after being deployed overseas 25 years ago I never went back to the mainstream news outlets.
I followed a similar path until election night 2020 when I realized that Bret Baier was on the other side. Haven't watched it since except for the Five, for a while. Now zip.
Doug,
that is when I dropped Fox News also on election night 2020. All the MSM are lying sacks of s**t.
Me too.
Hold on, now Douglas! Bret may be a squirrel (or is it a woodchuck) but the real villain that awful night calling my state of AZ 1 minute after the polls closed was Chris Stierwalt. He's been gone from Fox a long time, so I finally came back when Jesse W took the prime time spot. At least he's entertaining.
It wasn't Bret, it was the Fox News Decision Desk head. I believe his name was Aaron Mishkin. He could not hide his glee at decisions that went against Trump. He for sure had to be in on the 2020 Coup conspiracy.
Me too. At 9:00 p.m. Eastern time watching FOX election results Britt Hume was sitting amongst Baier and company while they were carrying on like a bunch of high schoolers. They came back from commercial break and Britt was gone. And so was I.
I don’t watch Bret…same reason.
I love your handle…. The arthritis is bad enough, but the neuropathy is killer.
I’m waiting for Trump to get out of office and start his own cable news company. Truth TV. Or MAGA TV. Or MAGA News. Something along those lines. Round the clock Trump-selected reporters doing nothing but reporting real news with the occasional interview of Trump commenting on whatever is on his mind at the moment. He’d kill it.
All you have to do is watch the celebrity awards shows and witness glorification by the networks of haters of USA and Trump. That demonstrates the mindset of the network operators and producers against any level of sanity in presenting information. CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC news motto is 'Go Negative Nightly'.
You are correct MD!
I really don’t watch anything on those networks except for auto and motorcycle racing. Even then,
I can’t take watching the commercials, so I tune those out.
You mean the commercials with every ethnic minority and gender confused individuals?
Greg,
Just had to laugh at your comment because you hit the nail right on the head! That’s EXACTLY why I can’t watch them. The commercials offer NOTHING of interest to me and I can’t identify with the people in them.
Well the reason the commercials don’t offer anything to you is because you don’t have diseases that are caused by promiscuous behavior. 🫣
Not to mention all the pharma commercials that tell you more about why you SHOULDN"T take the crap than why you should....exhausting. Again the actors...who do they represent? No one I know.
I cut the cable cord several years ago, so I don't even have Faux News.
Thankfully people frequently pirate Gutfeld's show on youtube, and the Saturday night comedian Jimmy Failla (sp?) as well. Both are very entertaining.
I wouldn't mind having Fox just for them and sometimes for Jesse Waters' show, but the fees to get Fox on Roku are astronomical, not worth it.
Failla is amusing but I can't stand and don't understand Gutfeld and his mouth is getting a lot dirtier than I like when I do tune it because of who else is on with him. Sorry for the run on sentence, lol.
I get it, not everybody is everybody’s cup of tea. ☺️
Funny Don, how they have the northeast the southeast but then it’s the mid Atlantic region.
Not the Middle East.
The Azores are in the mid Atlantic.
And the road circling DC is called the beltway because it’s wrapped around such a big waste.
drum roll on the big waste!
It wasn’t dad for me, but a hay hauler I worked for as a teenager. Ww2 vet changed my view. Then I went overseas and saw how socialist governments were awful. Then in 78 or 79 there was an industrial accident in west Virginia AND WHILE WIFES WERE LOOKING AT BODIES OF DEAD MEN TO IDENTIFY THEIR HUSBAND A CBS REPORTER WAS ASKING HOW THEY FELT. Shut it off and have only very rarely been back and only for special events such as the gulf war Reagan’s funeral. Etc.
yes I can hold a grudge. 😀
A held grudge can be a good thing — and you have every right to yours!!
You were a smart kid!
“Fox has the conservative audience covered but trying to appease liberals is a fool’s errand for CNN and MS NOW because liberals are never satisfied.”
Allow me to respond with my favorite quote from the late great PJ O’Rourke…
"At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child - miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats."
Loved his commencement address essay in 2008. This excerpt is my favorite:
Well, I’m here to speak in favor of unfairness. I’ve got a ten-year-old at home. And she’s always saying, “That’s not fair.” When she says that, I say, “Honey, you’re cute. That’s not fair. Your family is pretty well off. That’s not fair. You were born in America. That’s not fair. Darling, you had better pray to God that things don’t start getting fair for you.”
I’ll keep that in mind for my grandkids! When our daughter was small and would complain about not getting something, my husband would break into “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” by the Stones. She’s 35 now and still hates that song!
I still miss PJ.
or the obverse...you don't always want what you get...
Oh yes!! Thanks Needles for that quote!
Right on, right on.
And another one that I had to teach my granddaughter the other day is from Reagan. "There's nothing wrong with democrats except that they know so much that just isn't so."
Great quote Plays !!
Great Quote! I read his book: " Parliament of Whores". He was not afraid to tell the truth. Eespecially in an irreverent way... to those least worthy and accepting of it!
"Jeffries calls anything Trump does unlawful and unconstitutional." You can make that statement for all DEM's - with exception of Fetterman.
Fetterman was asked on some newscast who he thought the leader of the Democrat party was today and he answered, “TDS”, that hating and blaming Trump was all that mattered to them and no matter what Trump did, or whatever events may be occurring, disparaging Trump was the single most tippety-top priority, and for any member to stray from that position meant certain ostracism.
Yes.
He is the only one among them gaining credibility.
Sometimes I think the entire Dim side should get Elon Musk brain implants. They appear to come with a small but useful common-sense subroutine.
You know when Fetterman is coming up with more original material than the interviewer, you have entered the twilight zone.
Especially Chuck Schumer
Ten years too late, corporate media figured out their audience hates forever wars. So, they are assuming nothing will be accomplished in this war and are preaching to the Guardians of Decay. They haven't figured out that Trump is not like Bush Jr., Obama or Biden. DJT actually knows what he is doing, knows how to get the best out of the military, and is kicking ass now to prevent forever wars for the next generation.
My interpretation is darker. I believe the AmerPravda are 💯 percent aware that this war is entirely different from those of the globalcommie puppet quagmires.
But they lie, hoping their conflation will put the left back in power.
I agree. They are not mutually exclusive. They are as stupid as they are dishonest.
A dessert topping AND a floor wax! 🤣
You should have led with the poll. Based on a chart showing Iran’s range, Scotland is toast. Meanwhile, here in the US the radicals and their only average rabid cousin Dems are laser focused on midterms to they can have a public hanging of their own of a sitting President. In which case, Britain and Europe are toast.
Totally agree. When I saw that chart, all I could do was stutter & I don’t live anywhere in that target zone.
Yes. It needs to be an immediate and loud wake-up call to Europeans on the ground.
Iran is not the only place that needs to overthrow its overlords.
First they have to admit that Islam is an existential threat. It advocates apocalypse and its precepts are destructive to achieve that end. They raise their children to choose death.
I believe there is just too much fear of Muslims to do that. Golly - even during the Crusades when they believed in Christian theology the crusaders gave up and left Islam in Christian cities. Only when Muslim mothers stop raising their children to become suicide bombers will it stop.
SNL Classic debate: “Jane you ignorant slut.”
is there any other kind?
Good morning I was getting worried
Alan Combs now that's a blast from the past. His sister was tougher than he was.
Best decision here in the past 6 years was to cut the cable/dish.
Broadcast news is bad. The shows, white married man dumb. Colored women smart and without baby thugs. And the ghey couple adorable even tho one has aids
I also was getting worried our Don had expired overnight! Don’t scare us like that, Don! Your middle name is usually Punctuality! (I read Don first, then Jenna, then Childers then I’m done.) 🥴
White man dumb / black women smart also on corporate training videos & commercials. Always found it insulting to have to watch those required diversity training videos.
Oh my, since I've retired I forgot about all of that corporate BS
I retired in 2022 & my first thought was thank God I don't have to sit through anymore of those ridiculous videos. My last position (from 2016 - 2022) was as a IT consultant at ConEd - and I still had to watch those videos even though I was not an employee of ConEd.
When I retired in 2018, I thought I was done with all that BS. Couple years later, at a PT job, my boss called me in one day and apologized, but I had to watch these training videos corporate sent around. We all watched them in small groups and laughed our asses off at them.
And here we've been reminded of that corporate BS. Gee thanks.
I quit watching all television in the late 90s. I turned it on one evening, clicked through a couple hundred channels and couldn’t find a single thing worth my time. I even tried to get hubby to get rid of the TV altogether, but he watches a lot of sports.
Surber is my first stop in the morning followed by Twitchy for the humor, and then several other conservative news sites.
I was an avid nfl fan and a season ticket holder. I sell the tickets and I can’t remember the last time I watched a game
I read. I paint. I fish. I spend time with my Fabulous and pups
We got rid of all our TV's years ago (picked up by the Salvation Army). The only time we see TV is when we're on vacation. I'll flip through the channels & think of that song, "57 channels & nothings on".
I still have several TVs but they are mostly machines for multiple rewatches of classic movies and tv shows. I put them on in the background while working around the house.
I do have Real America's Voice for any breaking news.
That explains why I never miss TV. I've never cared about sports, and have done very well without it. Although -- once in a while somebody will try to chat me up about some game, and I get a funny look when I plead ignorance.
Thankfully, my husband only follows college sports.
Sadly your last paragraph is too close to reality on todays news.
I have to admit, the network news business baffles me. Yes, they are terribly biased and just really bad at reporting, but how do they still operate? Many of the news readers make huge salaries. Yet the ratings still go down. In business, you watch your bottom line carefully and when you see it dip you quickly figure out what is happening and FIX IT. The people behind the scenes running cable news are not stupid. So why do they not fix it? Someone told me it was because they know that when the other side in DC gets the reigns of power back the audiences will come back to cable networks as well. Except history has proved that wrong. Two questions then, why do they not fix the networks to return to some profitability, and who is propping up these networks while they continue to die?
Because “Trump”. That’s it - their entire modus operandi, and raison etre.
Sad, isn’t it.
Hilarious, really.
As shown by DOGE, Dem govts paid the networks so they'd continue with the Dem narrative. I would bet that has gone on for decades. So basically, we that taxpayers have been propping up the networks through nefarious politicians. But I agree Reddog, why aren't they learning? Probably bc the networks are all based in NYC, which is overwhelmingly liberal, and they'd be ostracized by society.
They're not learing they're pontificating. The networks still think we care what they say. A 24-hour news cycle is no help.
Ha ha, “learing”, they will never be able to get over that one!
If the evidence uncovered by DOGE is valid then you are right. I’m still waiting for someone in Dem government to come forward and confirm it. Maybe we haven’t hit rock bottom yet.
Because they're propagandists, not reporters.
Most people would become one if the paycheck was big enough. But doesn’t answer the questions, why is a failed business model still being used and who is propping this up?
Because someone (our domestic and/or foreign enemies) fund it?
The owners of the Left Media are not fixing their bias because their goal is not making money with the network. The GOAL is to push the narrative and control the belief-system of as many Americans as possible, in order to subvert and conquer our country. These Left news outlets are being financially subsidized by anti-American deep pockets from many domestic and international sources (China, Globalists, Communists, etc.).
We don't know EXACTLY who they are, though DOGE has helped and we are getting SOME more specifics. But any intrepid young reporters who want to make a name for themselves should probe into this.
I have watched the media react to Nick Shirley and his exposure of how corrupt states are with respect to using our Medicare tax dollars for vote buying. It is almost as if the media does not know how to respond to this kid and what he has done with almost zero dollars. A kid with a GoPro camera and his own money has done more than all news networks combined in reporting corruption. He i the poster boy for what the media should be.
Big pharma pays the bills. When corporate media decided to allow commercials on the news, that’s when hard news left the building and infotainment walked in, along with the leftist bias that was always lurking in Huntley-Brinkley land. Newsreaders became “anchors” and media stars, and celebrities and it never went back to white guys in suits with serious expressions. They also dumped their world-wide coverage and foreign correspondents. CNN got the airport’s captured and began the cable revolution and then competition for 24-hour information heated up, bringing us “morning shows” and rampant opinion television. It’s not an accident that Disney took over ABC. The FCC is meaningless, as cable and subscription tv has dominated. It’s all a waste of $$.
You may very well be correct. As my wife puts it, the MSM has become no different than reality tv today. They cannot exist without sensationalism. They may say they reporting the news but they are really just entertainers today, vying for a dwindling viewership. And when we lost journalism, we lost accountability in government.
It used to be in this country you could fool some of the people all of the time, and most of the people some of the time. But the characters we’re dealing with these days can’t fool anyone anytime and the people who say they believe them are pathological liars and know it. Or just brain dead.
Rush Limbaugh couldn't have said it better. Great column, Don!
Amen! Worth the wait!
Great time for reading great books.
Some CNN poll said over 60% of the respondents thought we were losing the war with Iran. That literally tells you everything you to know about their coverage and biases.
Terrifying.
Six out of all ten of their viewers believe that!
😉
OMG! I had completely forgotten about Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah & had to look it up on YT. Thank you, it made my day. All agendas aside, at what point do these people, both in front & behind the camera, think. I mean actually think. I understand the trajectory change with Rush Limbaugh, but whether you agreed with him or not, he brought the goods for back up not manufactured DEI nonsense. Between fake news & fake politicians, it is unbearable. Here is a link to Black Conservative Perspective that gave as good an update/analysis on/after Bessent’s interview on NBC https://youtu.be/kv9Ups5AkX8?si=skOpA0X4i6Fnmjyf.
Not only did it highlight how stupid it is to send Kristen Welker up against Bessent, but focused on Trump’s probable long term plan. Did/does Greg Foreman have a viewpoint, yes, but he provides enough information for the listener to make up his own mind. Dragnet’s tag line, “just the facts, ma’am.”
What should Britain do? Trade Starmer for Zelensky. Better yet, for Orban.
Hell, I'd trade Starmer for Katie Hopkins.
She could replace all of Parliament, too.
I would watch Legacy news if: 1. They would honestly investigate and accurate report on Fraud, 2. Honestly investigate and accurately report on the Dem governance problem in our big cities.
Or just plain honestly report ANYTHING!
Hmm - do todays journalism schools teach them to lie? Is Lying 101 a required course?
Actually, yes.
I recall reading about a program, sponsored by some UN Organization, offered to journalists, whose entire curriculum was designed to teach current and prospective journalists how to manipulate any and every story with an angle that supported their Leftist theories, particularly those dealing with climate change and immigration, no matter how completely detached that story might be from having anything whatsoever to do with those theories.
At the AP, it's called the Style Book:
The AP Stylebook, officially titled The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law, is the definitive style and usage guide for American English grammar, punctuation, spelling, and journalistic standards created by the Associated Press (AP). It serves as the primary reference for journalists, editors, students, and professionals in newsrooms, classrooms, and corporate communications worldwide.
Does it require the word "undocumented" instead of "illegal"?
Along with all the rest of the left NuSpeak?
Yup. Along with "Secretary of Defense" instead of the correct "Secretary of War."
It's dreck too. Like trying to map the dunes in the Sahara. The AP Stylebook changes with the wind. It's everything the leftists could want: racist, sexist and touchy-feely. Blagh.
The one I have is totally different because it’s thirty years old and hardcover.
Poynter Institute.
"Journalists" are expected to be "activists." Neither are expected to think for themselves.
A few of them have openly said things like, "where does it say that we have to be objective" and that they are permitted to take a side. Then, they claim that they are indeed objective independent reporters. Lying in real time.
They have surely earned the term "urinalists."