Trump’s Media Blitzkrieg: Casualties of Common Sense

The following article, Trump’s Media Blitzkrieg: Casualties of Common Sense, was first published on The Black Sphere. Media Casualties of War The media’s long-standing reign of unaccountability is finally coming to an end, and the wreckage is piling up. For decades, the fourth estate wielded its power unchecked, morphing from a trusted source of information into a propaganda machine for the Left. But as the saying goes, “You messed with the wrong guy.” Enter Donald J. Trump. Trump isn’t just holding a mirror to the media’s lies; he’s smashing it over their heads. The fallout is spectacular, as media giants scramble to reinvent themselves in the face of collapsing credibility and dwindling viewership. This isn’t just a reckoning—it’s a revolution. And with Elon Musk adding fuel to the fire, the media’s retreat from its ivory tower has become a stampede. A Crisis of Conscience? Or Just Desperation? Even some insiders are calling out their own institutions. Case in point: David Maraniss, a Washington Post veteran, who recently denounced his paper’s editorial team for equating Biden’s questionable pardons with Trump’s January 6 pardons. A longtime associate editor at the Washington Post criticized his own newspaper for an editorial that blasted both...