I think they pushed the Overton window too fast, so they're losing a plurality of the people who used to accept the legacy media as mainline 'truth.' (This includes me; I was brought up Blue Tribe.)
These polls agree but the reported threshold is just different. So it's not Overton window unless it shifted exactly so much as to drop off Republicans and keep all Democrats.
Really it's Tribalism. Democrat trust shot up 20 points immediately after 2016 and the reason is intolerant liberals purged out "nazi" coworkers. Media was I believe roughly 2/3 D and 1/3 R before that and then was 95% D and 5% R shortly after Trump.
Give an example from NPR, Tom Ashbrook hosted On Point since 2002 -- fired 2017 due to intolerant liberal staff member. It's not clear what his political opinions are, but he interned with a Republican senator and by NPR standards he's far right. Under him, On Point would have episodes critical of mainstream narratives and immediately once he was gone it was all Democrat party line propaganda.
Or put another way, Overton Window is what's acceptable to the public. What shifted was what's acceptable to publish. People still find trannies disgusting, but you can't say that or so many other things in media and that's why nobody trusts them.
I think that's precisely it that the Overton window scarcely includes anything conservative. The Official conservatives can barely differ with the Democrats on the fundamentals. If a man says he's a woman, he's a woman. That's what the official conservative position is. And I don't know how many actual conservatives think that.
Truly conservative takes are unpublishable by MSM.
At least "Fair" amount of trust in Mass Media (Gallup):
At least "Some" trust (Pew):
These polls agree but the reported threshold is just different. So it's not Overton window unless it shifted exactly so much as to drop off Republicans and keep all Democrats.
Really it's Tribalism. Democrat trust shot up 20 points immediately after 2016 and the reason is intolerant liberals purged out "nazi" coworkers. Media was I believe roughly 2/3 D and 1/3 R before that and then was 95% D and 5% R shortly after Trump.
Give an example from NPR, Tom Ashbrook hosted On Point since 2002 -- fired 2017 due to intolerant liberal staff member. It's not clear what his political opinions are, but he interned with a Republican senator and by NPR standards he's far right. Under him, On Point would have episodes critical of mainstream narratives and immediately once he was gone it was all Democrat party line propaganda.
Or put another way, Overton Window is what's acceptable to the public. What shifted was what's acceptable to publish. People still find trannies disgusting, but you can't say that or so many other things in media and that's why nobody trusts them.
I think that's precisely it that the Overton window scarcely includes anything conservative. The Official conservatives can barely differ with the Democrats on the fundamentals. If a man says he's a woman, he's a woman. That's what the official conservative position is. And I don't know how many actual conservatives think that.
Truly conservative takes are unpublishable by MSM.