Semafor, a Beltway establishment website, has reported that media outlets “spent months publishing and airing neutral to overwhelmingly negative news coverage of (Trump)… a majority of American voters largely ignored the implicit and explicit warnings of that coverage – if they saw it at all – and voted Trump into office.”

Jim VandeHei, the co-founder of the news website Axios, was even more blunt:

“The verdict is not debatable: Half the country thinks traditional media is biased and often useless,” he said.

VandeHei sees Elon Musk as a replacement voice for conventional and heavily biased media: “Elon Musk is now arguably the most powerful civilian in the history of the country…His real power comes from X. People thought he was an idiot when he bought X because it cost a lot of money. He.. has the most powerful platform on the right, and politics is downstream from information, and there’s just a whole new information ecosystem out there.”