The Shepherds have a Credibility Problem

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  1. Greg in Ak
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    The MSM has been dead for a while. Also D’s (Biden especially) struggled and failed to use the MSM, for the limited use it has. We had a giant ship take down a bridge in Baltimore. It was a big frickin deal. In the last week or so they got the port up and running. That is the time a prez or candidate should be making speeches and bragging, but they didn’t and the MSM/larger social media space pays attention to bragging and much less about what actually happened.

    The “MSM”, in general and w/o actually looking up data, still makes enough money for it’s owners so i’m not betting on change.

    D’s need to move far more into the social media space on youtube, podcasts, etc. Cause the old MSM ain’t what it was and doesn’t have the juice.Report

  2. Doctor Jay
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    This is the quote that seems to capture it for me:

    If half the country has decided that Trump is qualified to be president, that means they’re not reading any of this media, and we’ve lost this audience completely.

    The NY Times has 10 million subscribers. That seems like a lot but it’s a small fraction of the people who vote.

    Many of those people don’t read newspapers any more. Fox News doesn’t have that many viewers. People listen to podcasts and read Facebook, and watch Twitch and YouTube along with other stuff.

    The media climate is so, so different than we thought.Report

    • Greg in Ak in reply to Doctor Jay
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      The NYT has 10 mil with most of them being in the NY tri state area then spreading down the Acela corridor. It’s always been local paper for NY with national add ons. That lots of old MSM/legacy media still have pay walls is part of their problem that limits there reach.Report

  3. Jaybird
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    The WaPo thing was a good start, I think. No more endorsements. Let your reporters say “I’m voting third party!” or whatever. Hell, let your editors say that. Don’t have the paper give an official one.

    It should be enough to know that 19 of the 20 reporters voted for Harris and the twentieth said that they don’t vote because they don’t want it to impact their own impartiality.

    And I can draw my own conclusions from that.

    That’s not a *FINISHING* point, mind… but it’s a starting point.Report

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