Ex-Fox News star Tucker Carlson put the mainstream media on notice saying the system they created where information voters receive comes from a handful of people who already have power and will never give it up is finished. Done.
The media has lied too many times to the American public and while it took us a while, we no longer believe them. From the Iraq war to the Trump Russia hoax, the media is now propaganda.
“The old system is collapsing,” Carlson said. “You can’t claim you’ve got a democracy if all the information voters receive before a presidential election has been curated by the people already in charge.”
Backing up his point is how Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) will announce his 2024 presidential campaign tonight. He snubbed Fox News, the usual place for a Republican to announce, and instead will do it live on Twitter in an event hosted by billionaire Elon Musk.
DeSantis certainly saw Tucker get over 100 million views for his first video on Twitter and that had to make an impression on him.
According to a Gallup survey, people follow individuals not networks for the news and over 50% of Americans have lost faith in the media. Gallup says the number one person America follows for the news is Tucker Carlson.
According to Gallup:
In 2022, the highest percentage of Americans in 50 years of Gallup tracking reported no confidence at all in the news media. This aligns with growing public distrust in a wide variety of U.S. institutions.
Gallup’s research with Knight Foundation over the past five years has revealed the drivers and barriers of trusting the news and has quantified the depth of Americans’ negative feelings about the news today. When the trends hit a low point, is all hope lost?
A new Gallup/Knight Foundation study finds that many Americans regularly turn to individuals with public platforms for news and information. These individuals include celebrities, journalists, academic experts, TV show hosts, online influencers and business leaders. The top two reasons given for following these individuals are: personality and trust.
Americans’ Favorite Public Individuals
Tucker Carlson 113
Rachel Maddow 107
Sean Hannity 57
Trevor Noah 57
Ben Shapiro 56
Stephen Colbert 56
Lester Holt 55
John Oliver 53
David Muir 44
Anderson Cooper 43
Joe Rogan 41
Joe Biden 37
Donald Trump 30
Neil deGrasse Tyson 30
Bill Maher 26
Nicolle Wallace 24
Jake Tapper 23
And Tucker and his allies are not sitting back and watching the media empires of old collapse as YouTube shows get more viewers than CNN, Fox, and MSNBC. Tucker is embroiled in a nasty legal battle with Fox News and he is hitting them where it hurts.
“Fox News devotes hours of programming to attacking ‘woke companies,’ but ironically Fox is as woke as the rest of them,” a former Fox News employee told me, emphasizing that Fox viewers would be “astonished to find out what the company is like.”https://t.co/yDNqnZkisz
— Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) May 22, 2023
.@MattWalshBlog: “There’s no daylight at all between Fox News and MSNBC when it comes to gender. And I think that’s something that Fox’s viewers need to know.” https://t.co/yDNqnZkisz
— Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) May 22, 2023
