{"id":1128799,"date":"2021-12-17T14:58:50","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T19:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1128799"},"modified":"2021-12-17T14:58:53","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T19:58:53","slug":"report-establishment-medias-readership-collapses-up-to-48-without-trumps-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-establishment-medias-readership-collapses-up-to-48-without-trumps-presidency\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Establishment Media\u2019s Readership Collapses Up to 48% Without Trump\u2019s Presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freport-establishment-medias-readership-collapses-up-to-48-without-trumps-presidency%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1128799&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">The establishment media\u2019s online readership has reportedly collapsed without the aid of Donald Trump\u2019s America First presidency.<\/p>\n<p>The<em> Hill, Washington Post<\/em>, <em>New York Times<\/em>, <em>Politico<\/em>, <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>, CNN, and Vox Media have lost a large percentage of monthly unique visitors since Trump led the nation, according to Comscore data <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/washington-post-grasps-for-new-direction-as-trump-era-boom-fades-11639695007\">cited<\/a> by the<em>&nbsp;Journal<\/em>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"teaser-content\">\n<section>\n<div class readability=\"8.5235294117647\">\n<div readability=\"12.311764705882\">\n<p class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\">\u201cNewspapers, television, all forms of media will tank if I\u2019m not there,\u201d&nbsp;Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/media\/media-trump-bump-slump\/2021\/03\/22\/5f13549a-85d1-11eb-bfdf-4d36dab83a6d_story.html\">predicted<\/a> in 2017, \u201cbecause without me, their ratings are going down the tubes.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Politico<\/em>\u2019s&nbsp;readership&nbsp;has reportedly declined the greatest amount at 48 percent. The&nbsp;<em>Post<\/em>\u2018s&nbsp;page views are reportedly fewer by 28 percent, followed by the&nbsp;<em>Times<\/em>&nbsp;at 15 percent, then the&nbsp;<em>Journal<\/em>&nbsp;and Vox Media at nine percent.<\/p>\n<p>As Trump is canceled on Twitter and Facebook, reducing his ability to immediately create a headline for the establishment media to print, the amount of the&nbsp;<em>Post<\/em>\u2019s&nbsp;digital subscribers has reportedly declined by nearly 300,000.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_2997223\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"33\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/twitter-jail-AP.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2997223\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/twitter-jail-AP.jpg\" alt=\"twitter censorship\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">AP Photo\/Isa Simsek, Zaman<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>According to the report, only three of the <em>Post<\/em>\u2019s&nbsp;ten most-read articles on the home page in 2021 were political coverage. Whereas in 2019, just about all the 50 most-read articles on the home page were political \u201cnews.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Traffic from nonsubscribers to the <em>Post<\/em> has also reportedly decreased 35 percent in the last two years. \u201cActive subscribers are coming less often, and when they do come, they consume fewer pageviews,\u201d a <em>Post<\/em> internal document reported stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTraffic from subscribers is growing, but not fast enough to make up that difference,\u201d the <em>Journal<\/em> analyzed. \u201cFrom October 2019 to October 2021, digital subscribers increased by 56%, but subscriber page views only increased by 6% during that period.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;<em>Post<\/em>&nbsp;defended their failing paper by attempting to wean itself off Trumpian headlines.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been deliberate in our strategy work and are seeing the results of our investments across the company, particularly with the growth of the newsroom, the broadening of our coverage and the sophistication of our storytelling tools,\u201d a <em>Post<\/em> spokesperson told the <em>Journal<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Post<\/em>\u2019s<em>&nbsp;<\/em>statement also indicated its hired a third party to audit and study the paper\u2019s news coverage of Joe Biden\u2019s presidency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was a third-party study done to help identify potential motivations to subscribe, and we are not focused on just one of them,\u201d the spokesperson said. \u201cRather, we are using the data as a whole to think about where we invest and grow in 2022.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The study reportedly showed the publication is struggling with subscribers under the age of 55. The <em>Journal<\/em> reported only 14 percent of the <em>Post<\/em>\u2019s subscribers are 55 or younger.&nbsp;\u201cOur paid product is not attractive to younger people,\u201d the study allegedly reads.<\/p>\n<p>Among those most interested in the paper are reportedly described by the study as&nbsp;\u201caffluent, urban married men with kids, more multi-ethnic, skew liberal\/Democratic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Wendell Huseb\u00f8 on Twitter&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WendellHusebo?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\"><em>@WendellHuseb\u00f8<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The establishment media\u2019s online readership has reportedly collapsed without the aid of Donald Trump\u2019s America First presidency. 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