{"id":204462,"date":"2021-03-09T14:15:30","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T19:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=204462"},"modified":"2021-03-09T14:15:33","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T19:15:33","slug":"4-times-the-media-admitted-they-miss-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/4-times-the-media-admitted-they-miss-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Times The Media Admitted They Miss Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><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%2F4-times-the-media-admitted-they-miss-trump%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=204462&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1198956313-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>Since announcing his candidacy for President in 2015, Donald Trump has dominated the national news cycle \u2014 largely to the benefit of legacy media companies.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As a growing amount of their airtime centered upon their hatred of the businessman turned politician, many witnessed sharp increases in their audience sizes. The New York Times, for instance,<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/901684\/thanks-to-trump-the-new-york-times-added-more-subscribers-in-three-months-than-in-all-of-2015\/\"><span>saw<\/span><\/a> <span>more subscriptions in the last three months of 2016 than all of 2015 combined. During election week in 2020, CNN saw a 135% increase in<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/12\/07\/cnn-huge-ratings-november-growth-total-viewers-key-demographic-win\/\"><span>viewership<\/span><\/a> <span>over the first week of November 2019.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>After the inauguration of President Biden, however, legacy media saw double-digit<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/vip\/cnn-primetime-ratings-fall-post-trump-1234897869\/\"><span>drops<\/span><\/a> <span>in their viewership. CNN and MSNBC respectively experienced 44% and 19% decreases in ratings, respectively.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Following President Trump\u2019s departure from the White House, many left-wing journalists already appear nostalgic for their former arch-nemesis. Here are four examples.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Atlantic<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>Writing for The Atlantic, Alexander Nazaryan of Yahoo News wrote an article entitled \u201cI Miss the Thrill of Trump\u201d \u2014 which, according to<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210211154745if_\/https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2021\/02\/i-miss-thrill-trump\/617993\/\"><span>Wayback Machine<\/span><\/a> <span>archives, he later retitled as \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2021\/02\/i-miss-thrill-trump\/617993\/\"><span>I Was an Enemy of the People<\/span><\/a><span>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThrilling, without a single boring day: That\u2019s how I\u2019d describe my four years as an enemy of the people,\u201d said the journalist.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI miss it already. I miss it terribly, even if I miss little else about the past four years,\u201d he continued. \u201cWithout quite meaning to, Trump reminded journalists that their relationship to power should be adversarial. I hope my colleagues in the press corps\u2026 remember that, as some measure of pre-Trumpian courtliness returns to the White House briefing room.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cCovering the administration was thrilling for many journalists, in the way that I imagine storming Omaha Beach must have been for a 20-year-old fresh from the plains of Kansas,\u201d Nazaryan added unironically. \u201cHe hadn\u2019t signed up for battle, but there he was, liberating France.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Politico<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>Ben White \u2014 a lead economic correspondent with Politico \u2014 admitted his nostalgia for President Trump on social media.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cDeep down in places you don\u2019t talk about at cocktail parties you want him tweeting those tweets,\u201d he<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/news\/politicos-ben-white-gets-dragged-for-saying-we-all-secretly-miss-trump-twitter-you-want-him-tweeting-those-tweets\/\"><span>stated<\/span><\/a> <span>on Twitter two days after President Biden\u2019s inauguration. \u201cYou miss him tweeting those tweets\u2026 And the sweet rush of outrage that followed. If you say you don\u2019t you are lying.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Matt Wuerker \u2014 White\u2019s colleague at Politico \u2014<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wuerker\/status\/1352758651811987458\"><span>agreed<\/span><\/a> <span>with the sentiment: \u201cWe\u2019re terrible human beings.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Though White deleted his tweet, other journalists were not thrilled that he had said the quiet part out loud.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cnah. i really don\u2019t. i don\u2019t need that anxiety,\u201d<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DavidOAtkins\/status\/1352757074350927872\"><span>replied<\/span><\/a> <span>Washington Monthly\u2019s David Atkins.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cYou\u2019ve never been more wrong about anything in your life. And you\u2019ve been wrong about a lot,\u201d<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jackshafer\/status\/1352761733706821632\"><span>commented<\/span><\/a> <span>Politico\u2019s Jack Shafer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>NPR<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWith a new president sworn in, should journalists now ignore Trump?\u201d asked NPR\u2019s Kelly McBride, instantly answering the question in the negative by virtue of writing the article.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>McBride argued that journalists should not allow the outgoing Commander-in-Chief to \u201cmanipulate media coverage with the flick of the tweet.\u201d However, she believes that \u201cfiguring out when and how to cover the former president will remain a moving target.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cA wholesale ban of Trump\u2019s words from the news report could have an unintended effect. It would reinforce the belief among Trump\u2019s supporters that he was a victim of unfair media coverage,\u201d argued McBride, dubbing such a phenomenon the \u201cVoldemort effect.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>McBride established three suggestions for her fellow journalists: make decisions on a case-by-case basis, refrain from headline quotes, and being \u201cwary of coverage instigated by Trump.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWhen journalists find themselves considering a story about Trump or his family, consider what instigated the events that seem to merit coverage,\u201d she stated. \u201cIs he getting deposed by an attorney general? Are we learning more actions during his time in office? Or did Trump say something outrageous? The bar should be particularly high for news instigated by Trump himself.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>CNN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>Chris Cillizza \u2014 CNN\u2019s editor-at-large \u2014 analyzed recent social media-driven market volatility with an article called \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/01\/27\/politics\/gamestop-stock-surge-trumpism\/index.html\"><span>How Trumpism explains the GameStop stock surge<\/span><\/a><span>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAt the core of Donald Trump\u2019s angry populist appeal was \u2014 and is \u2014 this sentiment:<\/span> <em><span>The elites think they know better than you. They think they can tell you how to live and what to believe. But guess what? We the people are smarter than the elites!\u201d<\/span><\/em> <span>he wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Cillizza added that the \u201ceffort to screw the pros\u201d was similar to attitudes that led millions of Americans to support the 45th President\u2019s rise to political power.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWhat\u2019s the end game for the GameStop surgers?\u201d he asked. \u201c<\/span><span>The point is that there is no real point beyond showing up the pros \u2014 proving to them that they aren\u2019t as smart as they think they are and that they don\u2019t<\/span> <span>have the ability to control everything.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWhich, again, has its roots in Trumpism.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span class=\"s1\"><em>member<\/em><\/span><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since announcing his candidacy for President in 2015, Donald Trump has dominated the national news cycle \u2014 largely to the benefit of legacy media companies.\u00a0 As a growing amount of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2310365,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1198956313-1.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"4 Times The Media Admitted They Miss Trump","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1198956313-1.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"4 Times The Media Admitted They Miss Trump","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204462","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2310365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}