Journalists were so desperate to take out Trump (and Republicans in general) that they torpedoed their own credibility. 4 years of non-stop "The world is endin

Journalists were so desperate to take out Trump (and Republicans in general) that they torpedoed their own credibility. 4 years of non-stop "The world is ending" crises one right after another, with barely any time to realize that one amounted to nothing before the next one started has left people disillusioned. Add in the fact that when actual problems like Covid did occur, the press was slow to pick up on them. They wasted months mocking VC firms for not allowing handshakes instead of digging deeper into what they were talking about. People will go listen to Elon Musk et al directly because they've learned that when they compare his actual words to journalists' interpretation of those words, they are completely different. If they stop lying people might start listening to them again.