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Democrats examine themselves but not the media | News, Sports, Jobs

It’s been a week since Donald Trump’s landslide re-election and some Democrats are using words like “realignment” “self-reflection” And “regret.” It seems that most of the losers are rethinking their far-left immigration policies and the entire social agenda. Let’s wait and see, because for the left, these are subjects considered quasi-religious doctrines.

One group that seemingly has no regrets, remorse, or even introspection is the media, which overwhelmingly favored Kamala Harris for president. They cannot understand that not everyone has the same worldview as theirs. This attitude explains why their television audiences, readership and credibility continue to decline. It’s the only company that refuses to admit that the people who live in the vast red territory between New York and California are worth understanding and should be fed a balanced diet of information.

CNN.com perhaps put it best: “Trump’s return to power raises serious questions about the credibility of the media.” If the media’s initial reactions to Trump’s landslide victory aren’t enough to help them understand their bias problem, what is?

CBS News reporter John Dickerson shed tears during a post-election appearance on Stephen Colbert’s show, saying he would have a hard time not thinking about his boys when describing the election results. elections to young Americans. Colbert claims majority of voters “I don’t care” on democracy. Tell that to the record number of people who voted.

Reliable liberal women on “The view” called Trump’s victory “pathetic and disturbing” labels that have been applied to them by some. On MSNBC (which some conservative critics have called MSDNC for its promotion of all things Democratic), Joy Reid blamed white women for Kamala Harris’ defeat in North Carolina. What happened to the gender gap touted by the media?

CNN commentator Van Jones said many people were “to hurt” because of the election results and African American women know something about “to be criticized.” The media has denigrated Middle America for years, implying that it is ignorant and does not adhere to far-left agendas.

Also on CNN came this laugh from “PBS News Hour” White House correspondent Laura Barron-Lopez, who said one of the reasons Harris lost is that, unlike Trump, she did not have a “media ecosystem” to help him. According to figures compiled by the Media Research Center, media coverage of Harris was 78 percent positive and only 22 percent negative, while the numbers for Trump were the opposite, 15 percent positive and 85 percent negative. . Talk about a media ecosystem!

There are so many more vile, disgusting, scatological and gross things, but you get the picture.

The polls were wrong again, none more so than the Des Moines Register. This poll, constantly presented as reliable by the media, claimed that Harris was ahead of Trump by three points just days before the election. Trump won Iowa for the third time. The margin was 14 points for Trump. Pollster J. Ann Selzer, described as “famous” by the newspaper, said it would review its data to determine why it was wrong. We hope she will share the results with all of us.

In a memo to his team, Condé Nast chief Roger Lynch pledged to “defend the principles of independent journalism”. Given the media’s biased reporting in favor of Harris and against Trump, the idea that journalists reflect ideological independence in their work will be difficult to convince most Americans who have lost faith in the institution.

Few Democrats are suggesting that it is their policies that most voters have rejected and that need to be changed. If Democrats remain on the path of denial, the 2024 results risk a repeat in the next election.