Recently Kevin Price, Host of the nationally syndicated Price of Business Show, interviewed John D. O’Connor.
In the wake of Donald Trump’s resounding victory, the media are all reporting on the various blame victims allegedly responsible for Kamala Harris’s defeat. While the fingers are pointing at racism, misogyny and Trump disinformation as likely suspects, one set of suspects not identified is the legacy media itself. As I wrote in Postgate, once the media saw that journalism could influence the country’s most important issues, they sought to use this power to decide our most important political questions, whether by journalism biased or simply false. But in the 2024 election, after years of baseless charges against Trump, enabled by the media, the populace saw that it was being insulted and deceived. Anyone who supports Trump is not a Nazi, a racist or a misogynist, and moreover, any media outlet that tries to convince voters of defamatory depiction of any Trump voter will do more to help Trump than hurt him. Maybe soon the media will understand, and in the election’s post-mortem one hopes that the losing party will understand, how much a negative factor the collective media was.
