CBS News’ Lesley Stahl is having a bit of heartburn after the 2024 election. Donald Trump is coming back. The GOP retained control of Congress. The media establishment was once again skinned alive by the tens of millions of Americans who rightly rejected, ignored, or outright dismissed their shoddy narratives against Trump and the ones manufactured to prop up Vice President Kamala Harris. So, it’s somewhat laughable that she fears legacy media is dead.
Stahl and The Wall Street Journal’s Peggy Noonan spoke about the latter’s latest book at the 92NY Center’s Recanati-Kaplan Talks in late November. Stahl relayed a hilarious story when she asked why Trump kept bashing the media after he won the 2016 election. He flatly said if he keeps doing it, fewer and fewer people will believe you. Stahl concedes that’s happened.
Lesley Stahl worried sick that the 'legacy media is dead':
— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) December 11, 2024
Lesley Stahl: "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."
Never been more optimistic. pic.twitter.com/8a2y3NMJA5
Well, lady, you lied about Hunter Biden’s laptop in 2020, so take a chill pill. You said the device couldn’t be verified. You were wrong. The media said Trump was a Kremlin agent—the whole Russian collusion delusion—that was wrong. They told Joe Biden wouldn’t pardon Hunter Biden; that’s another lie. All the legacy press does is lie to protect Democrats, and voters aren’t dumb. When the product is bad, people stop respecting or using it. That’s on the media for lying so assiduously about anything Trump does and then having it blow up in their face. CNN is one of the great masochists in this art. I’ve never seen a network so willing, so eager to stick to get bludgeoned by Trump and the truth on all their fake stories. It’s marvelous to watch. It’s got to a point where anything declarative about Trump made by the media should start a clock in when it gets debunked or revised because the report was wrong.
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In 2020, 'journalist' Lesley Stahl shamed Trump & cut him off during an interview for citing the Hunter Biden laptop.
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) June 5, 2024
Today, FBI agent Erika Jensen said during Hunter’s trial that there is no evidence the laptop was tampered with, like many in the media claimed.
Of course,… pic.twitter.com/C9gejqaNH4
The media getting owned by Trump will remain a constant, and that is why the legacy press is on life support. Let’s pull the plug on it in the next four years.
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