2024’s Biggest Losers: The Mainstream Media and the Far Left
By Steve Hunley
As we welcome the New Year, we can also reflect on a stormy 2024 and select the biggest winners and losers. The biggest winner of 2024 has to be Donald Trump who stunned the political hierarchy of the news media by winning both the popular vote and the Electoral College. The Republicans kept control of the House of Representatives and took control of the U.S. Senate.
No candidate for public office in my lifetime has ever been so demeaned, dehumanized and just plain lied on as has been Donald Trump who survived and surpassed all of the negativity of a mainstream news media with its own narrative to push. Trump had to endure all of that, survived two assassination attempts, to become only the second person in American history to be returned to the White House after having lost four years earlier.
Americans looked to the future and not some dystopian future when voting for Donald Trump. The very idea from the Left that the phrase “Make America Great Again” is somehow obnoxious is pathetic. Pride in one’s country is patriotic and patriotism is a wonderful attribute to have. No country is perfect and if it were the terrible place the Left would have us believe that it is, people from all over the globe wouldn’t be trying to sneak in through an open southern border. Too many of the people who consider everyone who doesn’t agree with them politically as “garbage,” “deplorables,” and “weird” hate this country and most Americans know it. Donald Trump’s victory sprang from many sources but that had a lot to do with it.
The biggest loser of 2024 was not, in my opinion, either Joe Biden or Kamala Harris, but rather the corporate news media. It has been increasingly apparent to everyone but the mainstream media that they have been hemorrhaging viewers and readers who have seen through their attempts to manage their own preferred narrative, which just happens to be holding hands with the Left in this country. The legacy media in this country long ago abandoned journalism to take a partisan view of not only Trump, but with the woke agenda of the Left. The 2024 election shattered much of that and revealed that more people see through the deception and lies repeated by NBC, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, and CNN and other outlets of their ilk. The mainstream media was not murdered; it died by suicide. According to the last poll I saw, some 65% tune out the news on a daily basis. One of the biggest reasons why is because most Americans don’t want a healthy dose of left-wing politics with their news broadcasts or newspapers. The news is less about news than peddling a narrative, all too often that just isn’t true. Trump’s labeling the mainstream media as “fake news” stuck for good reason – – – most Americans believed it and the number grew as they fell all over themselves to follow their chosen narrative. One of those narratives was telling us for the past four years that Joe Biden was “sharp as a tack,” an old man at the very top of his game. That insistence was contrary to everything Americans saw and heard with their own eyes and ears and the corporate media literally attacked reportage of Biden’s gaffes, frailties and slips. The fiction of Joe Biden being all there persisted and was pressed on the American people right up until it all came crashing down the night of the debate with Donald Trump. It was too much and the cat was out of the bag. The Democrats hurriedly disposed of Joe Biden, but they remained the victim of their own hubris and lies. The American people did not forget nor have they forgotten the legacy media lied their heads off. The failure of the corporate media to report of Biden’s mental decline while serving as president of the United States is one of the biggest failures in the history of this country. It literally showed how much the mainstream media cared about truth and democracy. Trust is earned over years but can be obliterated in the blink of an eye.
The mainstream media’s attempt, along with the Left and tech giants, to censor the free speech of anyone who did not agree with whatever narrative they were pushing reveals they don’t believe in democracy no matter what they say. The biggest threat to democracy in this country was not Donald Trump but rather the same folks who were chipping away at free speech and expression. Americans inherently knew something was wrong with society when churches were not allowed to meet while Antifa and leftwing protests were sanctioned and considered no threat to anyone’s health. It was absurd on the face of it and everybody knew it.
Nor was the failure to report Biden’s mental decline the only lie pushed by the corporate media. They went along with the lie that there was no crisis at our southern border for three and a half years. They did back flips to reverse themselves after having reported Kamala Harris was our country’s border czar.
The corporate media also protected Joe Biden from himself and his son’s blatant influence peddling schemes which earned the Biden family tens of millions of dollars. That same media long ago ceased to be reporters and have been political activists for quite some time.
The second biggest loser in the election was the Left in America for whom everything comes down to race, gender, and the substitution of religion for ideology. Biden’s crack about decency should have stuck in his throat. His lie about pardoning Hunter, the millions of dollars poured into the family coffers by foreign governments and interests, prove Joe Biden hasn’t a shred of decency left in his soul. Biden’s pardon of most of those vile criminals on death row showed little or no interest in the families and even less respect for the victims of their unspeakable crimes. Nor has Joe Biden ever shown the slightest remorse or regret for the loss of the lives of those brave Americans serving our country who were killed in his disastrous and amateurish withdrawal from Afghanistan, one of whom was one of our own. A decent man can say he is sorry for having failed; a decent man can acknowledge any hurt he has inflicted, whether or not it was unintentional. Former President Jimmy Carter was a decent man, but unfortunately, there is very little about Joe Biden that is decent at all.
