Last week, the news media went ballistic after the owners of the Los Angeles Times and Washington Post blocked each paper's editorial boards from formally endorsing Kamala Harris for president.
The rest of the media see the billionaires who own each outlet as "Preemptively self-censoring" themselves to avoid offending Donald Trump.
Above all, the intensity of the meltdown we're seeing from media figures both inside and outside of these two publications reveals how profoundly out-of-touch most of the establishment media is about their own importance.
In the nineteenth century, the media consisted almost exclusively of books, pamphlets, and newspapers.
Trump's appearance on Rogan has been viewed nearly forty million times on YouTube alone The interview towers over Kamala Harris's recent interview with Fox News, which, at 8 million viewers, had been celebrated as the highest-rated interview of the 2024 election.
The panic can only be understood as a symptom of the legacy media being unable or unwilling to face the fact that they are no longer the main force influencing and controlling how the public sees the world.
The hysteria last week over the withdrawn editorial endorsements demonstrates that many are still hyper-focused on some media practices that today are largely irrelevant.
https://mises.org/mises-wire/establishment-media-unaware-its-growing-irrelevance
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