President-elect Donald Trump’s resounding victory has left the corporate media in a state of despair, with prominent figures like CNN’s Van Jones and 60 Minutes’ Lesley Stahl openly admitting their influence has evaporated. Despite their relentless efforts to undermine Trump and shape public opinion, Election Night proved what many Americans already knew — the legacy media is dead.
Van Jones, a far-left contributor at CNN, confessed the media’s irrelevance during a recent discussion. “The mainstream [media] has become the fringe, and the fringe has become mainstream,” Jones admitted. He pointed to alternative media and podcasts, which now draw millions of viewers while cable news struggles to maintain even a fraction of that audience. “There are people out there getting 14 million streams, and we’re on cable news getting one or two million. The political class is way off.”
Meanwhile, Lesley Stahl, the disgraced 60 Minutes journalist who once dismissed the Hunter Biden laptop story as “Russian disinformation,” bemoaned the media’s collapse. “I’m extremely worried about the press. I despair. I worry greatly. We’re at the point where if the POTUS is going to say ‘Legacy media is dead,’ I’m very dark about it,” she said.
Stahl and Jones are finally recognizing the bitter truth: their credibility has been destroyed by years of lies, hoaxes, and blatant partisanship. From the Russia collusion narrative to the Hunter Biden cover-up, the media’s deceit has been exposed. Despite their best attempts to rig elections through misinformation, their influence is now negligible.
Trump’s decision to bypass the traditional media and engage directly with alternative platforms like podcasts and independent news outlets is as revolutionary as John F. Kennedy’s embrace of television in 1960. This shift isn’t driven by technology alone; it’s fueled by the legacy media’s credibility implosion.
Consider the mountain of media-fueled hoaxes that have collapsed under scrutiny:
- Russia Collusion Hoax
- Very Fine People Hoax
- Border Agents Whipping Illegals Hoax
- Hunter Biden Laptop Hoax
- Covington Kids Hoax
- Trump Told People to Drink Bleach Hoax
- MAGA Assaulted Paul Pelosi Hoax
The list goes on, each lie chipping away at their dwindling credibility.
Election Night 2024 was a stark wake-up call. The media’s coordinated attacks and dishonest narratives failed to sway the American people. Instead, voters rejected their propaganda and chose Trump. Legacy media’s attempts to gaslight the nation fell flat, and the truth, spread by alternative media, prevailed.
This is a death by credibility suicide — a slow, self-inflicted collapse driven by arrogance and dishonesty. While the corporate media will always exist within their insulated echo chambers, their days of controlling public discourse are over. The American people are no longer listening.
It’s a remarkable and long-overdue reckoning. The legacy media’s era of dominance has ended, and the truth has finally broken through their walls of deception.