{"id":1628353,"date":"2022-08-31T13:06:51","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T17:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1628353"},"modified":"2022-08-31T13:07:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T17:07:00","slug":"report-trump-was-right-about-the-washington-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-trump-was-right-about-the-washington-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Trump Was Right About the Washington Post"},"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\">16<\/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-trump-was-right-about-the-washington-post%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=1628353&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--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/\">Media<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">He&#8217;s the best thing that ever happened to the Bezos-owned paper (and CNN) <\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/andrew-stiles\/\" title=\"Posts by Andrew Stiles\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Andrew Stiles<\/a> \u2022 August 31, 2022 12:50 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Former president Donald Trump often said he was &#8220;the best thing to ever happen&#8221; to mainstream media outlets such as the <em>Washington Post\u00a0<\/em>and CNN. Recent events and revelations suggest Trump was right.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>New York Times<\/em>, one of the only mainstream outlets to thrive in the post-Trump era thanks to its non-political content including games and recipes, detailed the <em>Post<\/em>\u2018s struggles\u00a0in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/08\/30\/business\/media\/washington-post-jeff-bezos-revenue.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> published Tuesday:<\/p>\n<p>The Post&#8217;s efforts to diversify its journalism beyond political coverage extends back until at least the summer of 2016. At that time, senior editors considered a plan that would expand the newspaper&#8217;s coverage to temper a decline in readership during what they thought would be the presidential administration of Hillary Clinton, according to two people with knowledge of the proposal.<\/p>\n<p>The plan, code-named Operation Skyfall, was set aside after Mr. Trump won the presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>As the importance of moving beyond Washington coverage became more urgent over the past year, [chief executive and publisher Fred] Ryan has given some mixed signals about how ambitiously he wanted to move.<\/p>\n<p>Of note: This was before the <em>Post<\/em> adopted its stupid slogan: &#8220;Democracy dies in darkness.&#8221; They rolled that out in February 2017 after Trump took office. Yet the paper&#8217;s executives were preparing to adopt a new business model that would emphasize &#8220;darkness&#8221; because they thought (correctly) that <em>Post<\/em> readers would have very little interest in investigative reporting or any coverage critical of a Democratic administration.<\/p>\n<p>As it turned out, Hillary&#8217;s defeat in the 2016 election was a boon for mainstream journalism as millions of emotionally unstable liberals sought reassurance that Trump was bad and his opponents were morally righteous. Outlets such as the <em>Post<\/em> and CNN were happy to oblige. The clicks came rolling in; ratings soared.<\/p>\n<p>Everything changed when Trump left office. CNN&#8217;s ratings tanked while its highly touted premier streaming service, CNN+, flopped. Network president <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/cnns-jeff-zucker-resigns-after-hiding-romantic-relationship-with-former-andrew-cuomo-spox\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jeff Zucker<\/a> was forced out earlier this year, and new leadership started cleaning house. Partisan hacks such as <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/toobin-gets-off\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jeffrey Toobin<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/brian-stelter-greatest-hits\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brian Stelter<\/a>\u00a0were sent packing.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Post<\/em>, which is owned by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, is also struggling to survive in Trump&#8217;s absence. Business has &#8220;stalled in the past year,&#8221; according to the <em>Times<\/em>.\u00a0The paper is on track to lose money in 2022 after years of profitability. Layoffs are reportedly under discussion amid growing frustration with the &#8220;numerous low performers in the newsroom.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump really was the best thing that ever happened to the mainstream media. &#8220;Newspapers, television, all forms of media will tank if I&#8217;m not there because without me, their ratings are going down the tubes,&#8221; he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/12\/28\/us\/politics\/trump-interview-mueller-russia-china-north-korea.html?smid=tw-share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">predicted<\/a> in December 2017. That is exactly what happened. As the <em>Post<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/media\/media-trump-bump-slump\/2021\/03\/22\/5f13549a-85d1-11eb-bfdf-4d36dab83a6d_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> several weeks after President Joe Biden was sworn in: &#8220;Trump predicted news ratings would \u2018tank if I\u2019m not there.&#8217; He wasn\u2019t wrong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s prediction wasn&#8217;t entirely correct, however. He also said the media would start &#8220;loving&#8221; him and &#8220;let [him] win&#8221; in an effort to maintain their Trump-era profits. Like all partisan Democrats, mainstream journalists would do anything to stop Trump from winning. They just desperately want him to run.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media He&#8217;s the best thing that ever happened to the Bezos-owned paper (and CNN)  Andrew Stiles \u2022 August 31, 2022 12:50 pm Former president Donald<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":1894472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1628353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1628353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1894472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1628353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1628353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1628353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}