When you constantly and deliberately feed mis and disinformation to the people who are supposed to be your audience, don’t be surprised when, eventually, those people have enough and change the channel — or turn off the TV altogether.
In response to an X post that talked about the sharp decline of viewership for both MSNBC and CNN since President-elect Donald Trump won the election, Tesla founder, X CEO and co-head of the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) Elon Musk basically proclaimed that the establishment propaganda media is dead, X is reaching “all-time highs” and that the people are the arbiters of information now.
“This platform is at all-time highs,” Musk wrote. “You are the media now.”
This platform is at all-time highs.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 13, 2024
You are the media now. https://t.co/8Zy049xGAh
As yours truly has been saying for a while now, new media (i.e. podcasts, online news shows, and internet commentary) has replaced the legacy media for a growing portion of the population.
The establishment propaganda media has no one else to blame but themselves. You did this, and now you have to live through a slow demise.