The mainstream media audience has collapsed in America. CNN has just announced the closure of its “World News Headquarters” in Atlanta amid reports that its audience is now less than that generated by just one man in the alternative media, Joe Rogan. Other reports list Tucker Carlson’s audience for his first show on Twitter at over 100 million views. Who needs mainstream news?

On Friday, CNN reporter Kate Bolduan said — “Before we go today, we are marking an important moment today in CNN’s history. Today’s show will be the final broadcast from the CNN Center in Atlanta”.

The people have lost faith and trust in what conventional newspapers, magazines, radio and TV stations offer as news.

Perhaps we should all now bracket the word “news” with inverted commas?

Why? Because it is now clear to most that the mass media “news” is, in fact, an endless diet of propaganda that ensures a twisted view of national and world events. There is no attempt at balanced reporting. No debate is tolerated. Free speech is censored. It is all fearful sensation aimed at political persuasion and intended to create endless mass anxiety.

Fear begets alpha brain wave states which boost suggestibility. So the remnant, robotic audience still watching and reading the mainstream western media will do just about anything suggested by the mainstream. They will even believe that the fifth, sixth or seventh Covid “vaccine” jab is necessary and “safe and effective”.

An article in AXIOS recently showed that only 16 % of Americans have strong confidence in their newspapers. That is a staggeringly low number. However, for television news, the number is 11 %.

And the trend in confidence has been in steady decline since 1990. Thirty years of decline in confidence is a disaster, surely. It makes one wonder who the 11 % group is that still implicitly trusts their TV news broadcasts each evening and their morning newspaper. Are they the brain dead? The idiots of the Idiocracy?

US MEDIA AUDIENCE DECLINE OVER 30 YEARS

Leaving the mesmerised 11 % to their plight, let’s see what other Americans are thinking. A Gallup survey from September 1st to 23rd revealed the following.

A record-high 39% of US adults have “no trust at all” in the media. That is the highest level on record. And 29% have “not very much” trust in the media.

So, in summary, 11 – 16 % of adult Americans still believe what they are being told by the mainstream media but almost 70 % of the adults in the nation have either no trust or not very much trust in the mainstream media news. These results are the worst ever recorded in Gallup’s history.

US mainstream media ownership is dominated by just 5 or 6 companies. Here are the stock charts of three media conglomerates — over the last 5 years