Almost a week after the fact, the leftist meltdowns and MSM pundit soul-searching over Donald Trump’s historic landslide election victory continue unabated.
In the wake of the devastating defeat of their favoured Democratic Party, the global legacy mainstream media network is already laying the groundwork for their false narratives over the coming four years of Trump’s second presidency – chaos, mayhem, racism and misogyny.
But will anyone still be listening to what they have to say?
RNZ were among the worst of the lot. Here are some of their headlines in the days leading up to the election:
- ‘Conspiracy theories and threats: The new reality of US elections’
- ‘Trump distances himself from racist remarks at New York rally’
- ‘Trump unveils the most extreme closing argument in modern presidential history’
- ‘The air was full of hate: Shane Te Pou reports from Donald Trump’s MSG rally’
- ‘Harris hopes final speech will promise optimism, contrast Trump’s chaos’
- ‘You want a fight? You going to get it’ Puerto Ricans ready to punish Trump’
- ‘Harris appeals to Christians and Arab Americans, Trump embraces violet rhetoric’
- ‘Arizona prosecutor probes Trump’s firing squad comments’
- ‘Trump suggests politician should face firing squad over foreign policy’
- ‘Has the Trump camp’s divisive rhetoric shaved off key demographics?’
and so on and so on.
RNZ is a state-funded news outlet. Because of the distinct public nature of its funding, it should be the epitome of journalistic balance. But 99% of its US election coverage was a disgraceful combination of lies, twisted facts and biased opinions mainly written by people who suffer from acute ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’. Taxpayers should not be funding this kind of partisan, unethical garbage.
Once again, as we saw with COVID, the international legacy media complex – MSNBC, CBS, NBC, BBC, CNN, The Guardian et al and their local flunkies Stuff, NZ Herald, Newstalk ZB and RNZ etc, swung into action with relentless mass propaganda narratives, this time trying desperately to convince everyone that Donald Trump was the next Adolf Hitler.
The American people didn’t buy it, delivering Republicans a clean sweep of the Presidency, the House, Senate, as well as a decisive win in the popular vote. Gains for Trump were recorded among women, Hispanics and black men (Shock! Horror!).
The resounding defeat points to a watershed moment in news and information consumption, particularly in the realm of important geopolitical and social events. The changes witnessed will render the legacy media obsolete within five years.
We all know that trust and confidence in them is in sharp decline. Of itself that trend is devastating for the future of legacy media. But that is the least of their problems.
The combination of X and AI enables the rapid gathering, curation and publishing of uncensored news direct to a mass global audience who are searching for and are highly interested in news. The number of people turning to X to find their news in the future will increase significantly. Podcasts with big audiences, such as Joe Rogan and Lex Fridman, provide raw, in-depth and unfiltered information direct from the horses mouth, without the need for Simon Dallow and his teleprompter.
Even worse for the legacy media, however, is the fact that the ascension of independent media is only just beginning. Imagine what new technologies for news gathering and dissemination will be available for independent outlets in five years time.
The only advantage legacy media can cling onto now is its ability to mobilise a network of nationwide journalists and resources for major breaking news events, such as natural disasters. But with the rapid development of AI, and even holographic technologies, the end of this advantage is only a matter of time.
The legacy media tried to portray Trump as a racist bigot who was a danger to society, women’s rights, world stability and peace, while promoting Kamala Harris as some kind of virtuous Messiah.
But millions of uncensored stories and videos shared on X by citizen journalists, independent media and ordinary Americans at the rallies, speeches and interviews, showed the opposite. I saw, for example, videos of black men whose college education was paid for by Trump – racist? I think not. While on the other hand, I saw a moving video of a young black mother who was imprisoned by Kamala Harris in California for her daughter’s truancy – her daughter had not been wagging school, but was in fact, in hospital for a number of days due to a life-threatening condition. Nevertheless, Harris sent her to jail, and the mother implored her fellow Americans not to vote for the Vice President.
While the truth about COVID and the mRNA gene therapy has taken time to filter through to the mass of the people – a legacy of the extreme censorship in place during 2021-23, the US election saw uncensored information that undermined the legacy media’s narratives spread at lightning speed to a mass audience.
Millions saw with their own eyes, at rally after rally, in interview after interview, that Kamala Harris was the most inept and unsuitable presidential candidate in US history – someone whose characteristics were very far removed from the person described in glowing terms ad nauseum by the BBC, CNN or RNZ and their ilk.
There is an out, but will anyone in the MSM take it?
Having described the impending doom of the legacy media, there is nevertheless, a way for them to redeem the situation.
And the solution is ridiculously simple: Provide balanced reporting, all of the time, without exception.
Despite this easy way out, I am still confident in the demise of the legacy media, because the people in charge of those organisations do not have the moral honesty or capacity to admit they are doing their job wrong. I can safely say this because, while they managed to brainwash and fool a large section of the population through COVID, that was only achieved through extreme Big Tech and government censorship of independent media and opposing content.
The US election was a big opportunity for them to show they had learned from their mistakes during COVID. That was a period in which trust in the legacy media declined dramatically, and which should have been a wake up call to their bosses.
They learned nothing.
Every word is true! The you for publishing such a fantastic news resource for NZ, DTNZ is my most trusted NZ news
#defundRNZ
I laughed my head off when I saw RNZ copying and pasting articles from CNN on the election. Are they contractually bound to publish that fake news or are they just plain lazy? Either way, they lost all credibilty with their election coverage.
Good piece. I have no doubt also that this time Twitter stopped the big steal. There were a lot of videos showing attempted ballot stuffing jn the early hours of the morning that wentviral. Similar to 2020 except back then those videos were deleted by twitter and Fbook. This time they couldn’t hide it as it was all over twitter the moment the bags stuffed with fake ballots turned up.
But they are ” owned” . And we know by whom. It has become an instrument for propaganda and manipulation of the many. Thanks for this article and thanks for internet.
At least DTNZ opened my eyes. Thank you
NOW comes the light?
Wonder what US military intelligence and NSA has collected over the past 20 yrs 🤔.
I agree in large, we have seen thw power of Twitter previously in the Arab Spring uprisings. There is something unique in X among the social media networks that can effect social change in real time. The only caveat is whether X remains the way it currently is, or whether there will be a crackdown on it, or other nefarious manipulation of it byMusk.
RNZ headline today “Trump’s second term could bring chaos around the world. Will it work?”, right on cue.
I don’ think Trump would have won without X.
Legacy media is a joke and totally biased.
Doesn’t mean that Kamala’s comment about Trump being a danger to society is wrong. He now has the owner of an alternative media platform on his team. That same owner who received lots of US government funding to get Tesla and Space X up and running, and now benefits hugely from.
Visibility filtering has been happening pretty much since Musk took over twitter. Trump also will most likely have Musk’s former partner from Paypal (and NZ bolthole owner) Peter Theil, who owns Palantir (intelligence partner in western countries) on his team.
I am not sold on Trumps team being a US or global saviour. We shall see
Some months back a gaggle of our old hacks were seen on our local media raising their glasses, complete with knowing smirks, to the end of the use of twitter. All of them would have worked for outlets who’s foreign news each day consisted of several cut and pastes from AP This outlet doesn’t require a writers name at the bottom and so allowed for direct press releases from the same vested sources that seemingly have a grip on the whole worlds media. One news(small n) went so far as to change the page format to create the illusion that all items carried the same earnest credibility while AP’s propaganda /evil was printed unchallenged. What is difficult to understand is its complete grip on all news desks and in particular RNZ and TVNZ which have a minister on top
What this points to, in my opinion, is the dishonesty of the publicly funded MSM’s sponsors, the mainstream political parties, who regrettably, still make it into government. THEY are predominantly the one’s setting the tone and providing funding based on journalistic outcomes, they deem acceptable. In other words, they are globalist sell out’s. Think of the neo colonialists for whom the notion of nationalism, is anathema, being ejected en masse from leadership of African nations, right now and you are on the money.
Suffice to say, you want a superior mainstream media, first vote for a superior government.
Haven’t got enough heart beats to wait 5 years? How about NOW.
Excellent article, your summary exactly highlights the ineptitude and absolute bias that exists within our mainstream media.
I am hoping that the Trump victory leads to the unwinding of global unelected elites who are have been trying rule us like farm animals.
“I am hoping that the Trump victory leads to the unwinding of global unelected elites who are have been trying rule us like farm animals.”
Elon most definately isn’t an unelected elite type
I don’t recall too many, if any, positive articles on this platform for Joe or Kamala?
Is that o.k because the daily telegraph doesn’t take government money?
Or, is that bias?
That’s a good point and thanks for raising it zaggaz. I have discussed this issue with others, right from the beginning when DTNZ was first published – eg. shouldn’t we have then provided balance in our articles published on the mandates and Covid vax? There are some issues – the big geopolitical/soclal ones, like Covid, Ukraine and Donald Trump, where the MSM is so blatantly and constantly publishing one-sided propaganda, that I feel DTNZ, in taking a strict opposing view, is trying to provide the balance – in these cases the independent media (on most of these types of issues, but not all) as a whole is the balance which is missing from the MSM. In regards to RNZ, yes, given it is publicly funded, and is in essence a public service like public schools and hospitals, there is a greater obligation on it to be non-partisan.
Well there wasn’t much positive to report with Biden’s administration anyhows
Great article, I agreed with almost every word.
My only hesitation is to be cautious about the use of AI to gather news. AIs are a black-box for most of us (i.e. we cannot see how they work inside), and can probably be trained to have a specific bias.
Thank-you Editor for this great website.
I actually wrote to both RNZ and Newsroom last week pointing out their over the top bias against President Trump. RNZ has an obligation under their Charter to provide balanced and impartial reporting.
The Trump hit piece articles that were republished during the election from the likes of radical CNN so-called journalists were anything but balanced.
Maybe more people should call out the editorial staff of these news organisations highlighting their Inherent bias. Neither news outlet had the courage to respond to the concerns I raised in my correspondence.
Perhaps the next step regarding RNZ is to initiate a formal complaint for abusing the terms of their Charter. Another avenue would be to contact the relevant Minister to investigate why RNZ relies on the likes of CNN for what should be balanced reporting.
I also pointed out to RNZ that they should rethink publishing any future election polling. The polls published on their website were an absolute joke especially the last poll from the State of Iowa..
Marin Armstrong’s computer Socrates
Says that this coming US Election will most probably be the last
If so what lies ahead after that?
Secession
Civil War
Coda
In the day if you wanted a radio or TV station you needed studios, huge cast iron TV cameras, a nationwide network of transmitters, buildings, tech people to keep the network going. Managers, staff, news presenters.
Today, to reach the world you just require a computer, a spare bedroom, a $189 smartphone and an internet connection.
If the phoney CNN, RNZ, Stuffed, ZB and the like continue to push their master’s view, it will only reach the ears and eyes of old people for a short time and become insignificant.
It will then fade into history. I give it 7 to 10 years max.
I don’t want to hear a storytellers narrative.
Video of the locking up of protesters in the UK, from Mr or Mrs Smith works for me. As does the help for storm victims news direct from the communities helping them on the ground.
If you have to go to the other networks for a peek, never click on the advertising links.