Seems 2025 seems an terrible lot like 2024 in a single fascinating approach.
Media retailers nonetheless haven’t discovered the lesson of the presidential election. If company media reporters ignore choose tales People will discover them elsewhere.
And, in flip, preserve drifting away from these calcified retailers.
Working example? Whitney Cummings’ brutal roast throughout CNN’s New 12 months’s Eve protection.
NEW: Anderson Cooper stands utterly speechless after Whitney Cummings says Dems couldn’t maintain a major as a result of they had been too busy holding up a lifeless physique.
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— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) January 1, 2025
The veteran comedian unleashed a crush of subjects throughout the community’s vacation gala, together with President Joe Biden’s frail psychological and bodily state. It’s a reality the company press ignored and/or downplayed for four-plus years.
They even sheepishly admit it now, pretending as in the event that they didn’t discover Biden’s decline.
We did.
People noticed clip after clip of Biden stumbling, bumbling and barely placing cogent ideas collectively. Legacy media retailers instructed us he was nice, branding indeniable proof of his decline as “low-cost fakes.”
“The 2024 election fried our brains. The Democrats couldn’t maintain a major as a result of they had been too busy holding a physique upright,” she mentioned. “It was wonderful that the pro-choice get together didn’t give their voters one when it got here to their presidential candidate.”
“Kamala was compelled on us so onerous you’d assume she was patented by Pfizer,” she added.
Brutal. Correct. Humorous. Unhappy.
That’s what satirists are alleged to say. As an alternative, now we have regime comedians like Stephen Colbert who shield their get together in any respect prices.
Later, Cummings torched one other “off-limits” goal – First Son Hunter Biden. His shenanigans equally obtained swept underneath the rug by late-night comedians and “Saturday Night time Stay.”
With one pinpoint line Cummings instructed the scorching reality.
“The Dallas Cowboys cheerleader doc confirmed the ladies being handled horribly, underpaid, crying. I believed I’d opened a video on Hunter Biden’s laptop computer.”
This all occurred stay throughout CNN’s vacation protection. The press bent over backward to cowl the gala, reporting on trivial tales like Anderson Cooper taking a stiff drink.
Cease. The. Presses.
These hot-button gags obtained related protection, proper? CNN? The Washington Submit? What about leisure information retailers? Certainly, they shared these barbs with their viewers?
No.
A Google Information seek for “Whitney Cummings” this morning discovered zero protection of those quips from The Hollywood Reporter, The Wrap, Selection, WaPo, CNN, The New York Instances and extra.
Deadline did publish two tales about Cummings’ look however averted the jokes listed above. It should have slipped their minds regardless that the barbs went viral.
The company media’s bias went nuclear lately, in response to Donald Trump’s political ascendency. Their excessive partisanship contains inconvenient tales they wish to bury in any respect prices. That may’t be executed any longer.
The tales catch hearth on X. They gas YouTube video podcasts. Websites like Breitbart Information hunt them down and share for all to see.
The brand new yr gained’t change company media. It’s another excuse they’re in for a daunting 2025.
NOTE: CNN hoped to equally bury its personal protection. This expansive spotlight reel of its New 12 months’s Eve gala leaves Cummings out.