Many traditional media figures are feeling perplexed, depressed, or both by President-elect Donald Trump's remarkable re-election, riding a wave of economic discontent and anti-woke sentiment into the White House for the second time. There is.
Perhaps the lack of pro-Trump dissent within these news organizations is responsible for the recent media blues.
Opposing opinions used to be the norm in the industry, but in the Trump era, that's no longer the case. This is because multiple media outlets cannot boast of true ideological diversity or representativeness of their staff.
At CNN, conservative political analyst Scott Jennings became a breakout star in the final weeks of the election as a “lone” Trump defender on a panel filled with liberals.
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David Urban and Sharmichael Singleton are also regular Republican panelists, but conservatives like Adam Kinzinger and Ana Navarro, who spoke in support of Harris at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, They vastly outnumber fake Republican Trump critics and figures like the former president. President Trump's aides Alyssa Farrar Griffin, SE Cupp, and Margaret Hoover.
CNN contributor Adam Kinzinger speaks in support of Vice President Kamala Harris at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois on August 22, 2024. (Paul Steinhauser – FOX News)
MSNBC has zero pro-Trump voices on its payroll, instead featuring former Republicans and conservatives, with hosts Joe Scarborough, Nicole Wallace, and Michael Steele almost all rallying behind Harris. and contributors Jennifer Rubin, Charlie Sykes, Elise Jordan, Matthew Dowd, Tim Miller, Susan Del Percio, former Ohio Governor John Kasich, and former Florida Representative David Jolly.
The Lincoln Project's Rick Wilson and Stuart Stevens, former George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum, Bulwark's Sarah Longwell, former Republican Congressman Joe Walsh, and Atlantic staff writer Tom. Nichols is also a frequent guest on MSNBC, although he is not a paid contributor.
They all stand out in conservative and Republican circles, but exit polls show Trump has the support of about 95% of self-identified Republicans in 2024, representing a broad swath of voters. It's not that I'm doing it.
NBC News announced earlier this year that it would hire Ronna McDaniel, a former Republican National Committee chair and Trump ally, but quickly pulled the plug after intense backlash from the network's talent. , went bankrupt.
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MSNBC's Rachel Maddow and NBC's Chuck Todd led an on-air attack on former RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel after NBC News announced it had hired her as a contributor, but it was quickly retracted. (Getty Images/RNC)
In a post-election consternation, MSNBC host Jen Psaki acknowledged there had been “too much listening and too much lifting” by Never Trumpers Democrats, who make up the majority of the network's pundits.
“The people who left Trump, the Never Trumpers who have had an important voice and are still speaking out, are not a winning coalition,” Psaki said Friday.
ABC's “The View” is hosted by six anti-Trump hosts: Joy Behar, Whoopi Goldberg, Sunny Hostin, Sarah Haines, Alyssa Farrah Griffin and Ana Navarro. , currently representing minorities in this country. Griffin and Navarro were even more unusual as Republicans to support Harris.
Former co-host Meghan McCain slammed the lack of pro-Trump voices on ABC News' long-running daytime talk show.
“There's not a single conservative woman on 'The View' this morning who voted for Trump, or is hated by Trump supporters to explain to America why Trump is still popular. That is, in effect, misconduct on the part of ABC News.'' Posted on X on wednesday.
talk to fox news digital Last week, she detailed that she felt the show was intolerant of conservatives. McCain served as token Conservative Party chairman from 2017 to 2021, after which he left the program. Although she was not a Trump supporter, she was likely to debate the issue with her liberal co-hosts and defend the Republican position.
“They look down on conservative people, especially conservative women, and see them as insufferable traitors to their gender,” she said of the show. “I mean, they're going to be so hostile to you that people don't want to be there. And I think that's another reason why conservative women aren't there. Because the host can't handle it.'' And believe me, I know what I'm saying. ”
Most of “The View” co-hosts wore black in the wake of President-elect Trump's victory. (Screenshot/ABC News)
America's two largest liberal newspapers, the Washington Post and the New York Times, have the same problem.
“Democracy Dies in the Dark” paper is now listing Fox News contributor Marc Thiessen as the only Trump-sympathetic columnist on its opinion page following the recent resignation of contributing columnist Hugh Hewitt. I use it as a voice. He made headlines on Nov. 1 when he quit the Washington Post's online show “First Look” after clashing with liberal host Jonathan Capehart.
Hewitt called the show “the most unfair campaign ad I've ever been a part of.” Meanwhile, most of the paper's columnists are adamantly opposed to President Trump.
Mr. Hewitt's departure comes after the Post's left wing collapsed after the paper's owner, Jeff Bezos, blocked the paper from endorsing Ms. Harris as part of a new policy to end support for the president. Ta.
Conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt quit his job as a contributing columnist for The Washington Post earlier this month. (Washington Post)
The New York Times has a number of liberal columnists and moderate to center-right columnists such as David Brooks, Bret Stevens, and Ross Douthat, but none of them are Trump fans. Never told. But in 2023, the Times hired David French as a columnist to promote ideological diversity.
“Writing about politics and current events in the era of Donald Trump ideally calls for a variety of qualities, including factual and intellectual clarity, moral seriousness, generosity toward others, and humility toward oneself. “Fortunately for Times Opinion, these characteristics are very much embodied by David French,” the newspaper wrote in a press release at the time. .
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French, who is also a fierce critic of President Trump, made the case for conservatives to vote for Harris in a column this year.
A spokesperson for the Times told Fox News Digital: “Ignoring the numerous voices asserting or considering the possibility of Trump winning the election is a misreading of our opinion report. '' and sent links to guest essays and interviews defending Trump. Pro-Trump agent.
In April, NPR's veteran editor Uli Berliner indicted the organization's left-wing bias in a surprising op-ed published in the Free Press, saying that the station once had 87 registered Democrats in editorial positions. He faced his own confusion after sharing a startling claim. Headquarters in Washington, D.C. and “Zero Republicans.” NPR leadership disputed that characterization. Berliner later resigned from NPR amid internal turmoil and joined the Free Press.
Uli Berliner, the longtime NPR editor-in-chief, resigned in April after being suspended for publicly criticizing NPR's reporting. (Getty Images)
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It remains to be seen whether traditional media will change course under the new Trump administration and allow voices supporting the 47th president to have a voice in the conversation. But serious reform seems questionable, judging by the lack of self-reflection following Trump's 2016 victory and the apparent intolerance of viewpoint diversity in liberal news outlets.
