The biggest loser after Tuesday’s stunning election– in addition to the Democratic Party platform – it was the mainstream media that desperately tried to manufacture a president.

The legacy mediaThe full-fledged implosion was a long time coming. In the space of a few decades, the largest American media have completely squandered their credibility. And Americans go elsewhere for their information and feedback.

My Daily Signal colleague Bradley Devlin rightly noted Monday that the Trump-Vance strategy of airing popular podcasts and other “alternative” media (although I’m not sure we should call it that anymore, after Tuesday night) would likely give the Republican ticket an electoral advantage.

Here is what Devlin concluded in his article:

If Kamala Harris wins, mainstream media outlets that supported Harris’ cause even before President Joe Biden withdrew from the race will feel emboldened, and serious questions will arise about the viability of alternative media outlets that pose a real threat to her. Corporate oligarch at the top of the media will arise. filter.

However, a Trump victory could very well break the back of the mainstream media.

The mainstream media won’t give up on the game after this, but they received a devastating rebuke.

Former President Donald Trump, who can now also be called President-elect, has certainly made the rounds in the almost ridiculously biased corporate media space, as has his running mate, Senator JD Vance of Ohio. But they haven’t relied on CBS, NBC and the Washington Post to publicize who they are and what they stand for.

Instead, they appeared on separate episodes of “The Joe Rogan Experience.” Trump had a “fireside” chat with Elon Musk on X. And Trump and Vance have aggressively courted voters where they connect and listen.

More than ever, Americans got a glimpse of who Trump and Vance were without a traditional media filter.

Lo and behold, it turns out they weren’t “weird,” deranged proto-Nazis who hate immigrants and want the poor to be poorer.

And what about the other candidate, the one who was thrown into a presidential race without a primary at the last second by the Democrats, whose electoral speech was to defend “democracy”?

Well, the American people had virtually no idea who Harris was, beyond a few ready-made answers over the course of a few years. softball interviews with mainstream mediaat least one of which appears to have been heavily edited. Oh, Harris appeared on Alex Cooper’s “Call Her Daddy” podcast at the last minute, but reviews were “mixed””, as they say.

Harris ran a Woman in the High Castle campaign, highly cultivated by the same dedicated and friendly media that covered her predecessor’s infirmities for four years.

But every narrative concocted by the media since Biden left the presidential race in July has fallen apart.

Harris was not bringing the politics of “joy” to America, she was not leading “Hope and change 2.0.”

The Americans were in a gloomy mood. The cost of living has exploded under the Biden-Harris presidency, chaos at the border affects almost everyone, and the global geopolitical landscape looks ominous and getting worse.

For many Americans who showed up on Election Day, it was clear that Harris barely connected better with them than a poorly disguised hologram.

Part of the blame lies with the Harris campaign, of course. But the mainstream media hardly bothered to push the candidate to answer tough questions. Occasionally they would grumble, but they also mostly seemed content to let things go.

The mainstream media didn’t want to weaken Harris’ chances, especially given the narrow path she needed to reach the presidency.

It didn’t work. The American people saw through this scam.

And that means the disaster for the mainstream media goes far beyond the fact that they couldn’t make a president out of thin air. What this election has proven is that America simply doesn’t need it. People don’t trust them, don’t listen to them and ignore them.

Going forward, what incentive will Republican presidential candidates have to continue extremely biased network television networks participate in the debates?

Republicans no longer have to give Democrats home-field advantage if they don’t want to. They can talk to more people and have a more open conversation on X, Musk’s social media platform.

The collapse of the power of the big media therefore does not mean the death of journalism, far from it. There are now countless additional sources where Americans can get news, including here at The Daily Signal.

What has been broken is the monopoly on information that traditional media held and abused for too long.

Now, thanks to Kamala Harris’ defeat, there is much less chance that tech giants and big governments will step in and censor “misinformation” they don’t like.

The election result proves that we live in a brave new media world, and that’s a good thing.