{"id":2669826,"date":"2026-09-25T09:24:56","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T13:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignlegacy-media-implode-over-losing-white-house-passes-while-the-rest-of-america-shrugs\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T09:29:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T13:29:36","slug":"utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignlegacy-media-implode-over-losing-white-house-passes-while-the-rest-of-america-shrugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignlegacy-media-implode-over-losing-white-house-passes-while-the-rest-of-america-shrugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Legacy Media Implode Over Losing White House Passes"},"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%2Futm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignlegacy-media-implode-over-losing-white-house-passes-while-the-rest-of-america-shrugs%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=2669826&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>The article discusses the recent lawsuit filed by CNN, MS NOW, and Politico against the Trump management, protesting their White House bans, which they claim violate press freedom rights.The author criticizes these media outlets for their perceived hypocrisy,arguing that the White House&#8217;s actions merely restrict access rather than free speech. The piece highlights the longstanding bias, dishonesty, and self-importance of legacy media, citing examples such as biased reporting on political figures, selective coverage, and prior administrations&#8217; restrictions on conservative outlets like Fox News. Trust in the media has significantly declined among Americans, with polls indicating a sharp drop in confidence and skepticism about their objectivity. The article also notes that historically, Democratic administrations have also manipulated media access, yet left-wing outlets tend to see themselves as moral martyrs. It attributes the media\u2019s self-perceived moral superiority to a messiah complex, referencing Anthony Trollope\u2019s description of journalists as self-consecrated \u201cgods.\u201d Ultimately, the author contends that the decline in the mainstream media\u2019s influence is driven by their inability to self-correct and the rise of alternative, more principled information sources in a diverse media landscape.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Earlier this week, CNN, MS NOW, and Politico <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2026\/09\/21\/cnn-ms-now-politico-sue-over-white-house-bans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">joined forces to sue<\/a> the Trump administration in federal court, alleging that the administration had violated their First Amendment free press rights and Fifth Amendment right to due process by banning them from the White House. The three media organizations further claimed that the revocation of their credentials was \u201cbecause it [the White House] objected to our reporting. Left unchallenged, this threatens press freedom and the public\u2019s right to independent journalism free from government interference.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The left-wing corporate media establishment will forgive us if we are forced to suppress our laughter at their <a href=\"https:\/\/transcripts.cnn.com\/show\/arena\/date\/2026-09-21\/segment\/01\">f<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/transcripts.cnn.com\/show\/arena\/date\/2026-09-21\/segment\/01\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ake outrage<\/a> that \u201cthe government does not decide what the press reports or publishes.\u201d (The Trump administration, after all, is not restricting the media\u2019s freedom to speak, but simply their access to the White House.)<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hard to imagine a more delusional, self-righteous institution than legacy media, whose lack of self-awareness rivals the most awkward, unkempt middle schooler fruitlessly attempting to attract the attention of a member of the opposite sex. Whatever the legal claims of the media \u2014 which are irrelevant to my argument here \u2014 it would be good (though sadly unlikely) if those collectively pearl-clutching over this latest \u201cindignity\u201d would consider Vice President Vance\u2019s memorable <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/10\/14\/us-news\/jd-vance-rips-abcs-martha-raddatz-as-she-tries-to-downplay-venezuelan-gang-takeover-in-colorado-do-you-hear-yourself\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">exhortation to an ABC journalist<\/a>: \u201cListen to yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Do We Really Have to Remind Them of Their Record?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>It\u2019s not like the American people are short of examples of left-wing legacy media\u2019s biased reporting obviously intended to denigrate and destroy President Trump and his allies. CNN <em>for years <\/em>peddled as legitimate now-discredited narratives about Trump that were subsequently discovered to have their origin in an opposition research firm funded by the Clinton campaign. <\/p>\n<p>The outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/hunter-biden-laptop-abc-cbs-nbc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">egregiously underreported<\/a> the Hunter Biden laptop story because of how much it would damage his father\u2019s chances in the presidential election. It <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/media\/the-media-called-the-lab-leak-story-a-conspiracy-theory-now-its-prompted-corrections--and-serious-new-reporting\/2021\/06\/10\/c93972e6-c7b2-11eb-a11b-6c6191ccd599_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tarred<\/a> legitimate theories about the origins of Covid as ridiculous conspiracies that now seem almost certain to be true. CNN also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ap.org\/news-highlights\/elections\/2024\/chaos-swirling-since-bidens-debate-flub-is-causing-cracks-in-a-white-house-known-for-discipline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">refused to report<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/09\/22\/media\/terry-moran-says-abc-shut-down-joe-biden-health-concerns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Biden\u2019s obvious decline<\/a> while in office until it became impossible to ignore after his disastrous 2024 debate with Trump.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s thus no surprise that American trust in the media is at an <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/695762\/trust-media-fresh-low.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">all-time low<\/a>:\u00a0 As of October 2025, only 28 percent of Americans expressed a \u201cgreat deal\u201d or \u201cfair amount\u201d of confidence in media to report the news \u201cfully, accurately and fairly\u201d \u2014 down from 40 percent in 2020. <\/p>\n<p>In 2024, a <a href=\"https:\/\/apnorc.org\/projects\/election-insights-understanding-public-preferences-for-news-coverage-for-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Media Insight Project survey<\/a> discovered that a mere 14 percent of Americans possessed a \u201cgreat deal of confidence in election-related information\u201d from national news organizations. A <a href=\"https:\/\/reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk\/digital-news-report\/2026\/united-states\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Reuters Institute\u2019s 2026 Digital News Report<\/a> in turn noted that only 25 percent of Americans trusted news overall, a decrease of 5 percentage points from 2025, and the lowest level in the United States since Reuters began tracking this measure in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The media also seem to have a curious selective memory \u2014 the Obama and Biden administrations, after all, consistently restricted conservative media outlets from access or controlled which outlets were permitted interviews. In 2009, the Obama White House <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/09\/20\/us-news\/obama-glosses-over-his-own-attempt-to-block-media-from-white-house-as-he-slams-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">initially attempted<\/a> to exclude Fox News from an interview with Treasury czar Kenneth Feinberg. In 2014, the Obama administration <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2014\/03\/03\/is-the-obama-admin-freezing-fox-news-out-of-foreign-policy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">excluded<\/a> Fox from interviews with Secretary of State John Kerry and National Security Advisor Susan Rice, though Kerry and Rice appeared on left-wing programming. <\/p>\n<p>Moreover, in 2023, the Biden White House <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/05\/08\/white-house-bans-new-york-post-from-biden-event-as-hunter-indictment-looms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">refused<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/05\/08\/why-are-white-house-staff-afraid-to-let-a-post-reporter-question-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New York Post White House correspondent<\/a> Steven Nelson credentials to an event; indeed, even The Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2022\/07\/07\/white-house-reporters-access-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">acknowledged<\/a> that Nelson was denied access to Biden events for almost 10 months.<\/p>\n<p>And yet left-wing media soldiers on as self-professed martyrs on the altar of free speech, seemingly oblivious to trends showcasing their bias, selective memory, and the self-inflicted implosion of their credibility. CNN\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/media\/2022\/11\/01\/kaitlan-collins-cnn-morning-show\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">self-professed apolitical<\/a> Kaitlan Collins, whom <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2026\/09\/22\/trump-berates-cnns-kaitlan-collins-after-ban-you-shouldnt-be-covering-me\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Trump castigated<\/a> on Tuesday in New York City, has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/trump-town-hall-cnn-kaitlan-collins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">history<\/a> of biased, fallacious \u201cfact-checking\u201d and of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allsides.com\/story\/facts-and-fact-checking-fact-checking-claims-made-trumps-2023-cnn-town-hall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">making false statements<\/a> obviously intended to undermine Trump\u2019s credibility. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cJournalist\u201d Jake Tapper, in turn, has been at the forefront of much of legacy media\u2019s unprofessionalism, from <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/05\/14\/9-times-jake-tapper-dismissed-bidens-decline-claimed-hes-sharp-mentally\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dismissing Biden\u2019s decline<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/01\/16\/media-freak-out-as-trump-cleans-up-in-iowa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">refusing to c<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/01\/16\/media-freak-out-as-trump-cleans-up-in-iowa\/\">over<\/a> Trump to his <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/07\/28\/fauci-diary-revelations-prove-jake-tapper-was-never-a-real-journalist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">questionable and unprofessional<\/a> relationship with Anthony Fauci. \u201cOur obligation is to report facts,\u201d Tapper once <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/jake-tapper-defend-cnn-iran-reports-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">declared<\/a>, with no apparent hint of irony.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>An Industry With No Capacity for Contrition<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Collins and Tapper are far from unusual in this narcissistic belief in their own moral superiority and inability to demonstrate the slightest bit of self-reflection. Joy Reid, that archetypal leftist grievance huckster, whose MSNBC program was canceled in 2025, now <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-joy-reid-show\/id1820648828\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hosts<\/a> a <a href=\"https:\/\/imagelabmediagroup.com\/joys-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">thrice-weekly video podcast<\/a>, where she focuses on Trump, conservative \u201cthreats\u201d to American democracy, race, immigration, and attacking conservative politicians and commentators.<\/p>\n<p>Don Lemon, fired in 2023 from CNN after a long career attacking conservatives and pushing narratives of racial and sexual grievance, still focuses his professional energies on the Trump administration, race, LGBT issues, and, of course, immigration, as we <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/investigations\/2026\/01\/23\/don-lemon-minneapolis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">witnessed earlier this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Whether we are talking about <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/08\/20\/the-view-cant-be-both-a-neutral-newscast-and-a-leftist-propaganda-foghorn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>The View<\/em><\/a>  and its obvious leftist punditry, CNN\u2019s continued attempts to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/08\/13\/cnn-is-trying-to-drum-up-another-race-hoax\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">peddle racial grievance narratives<\/a>, or corporate media\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/07\/28\/faucis-diaries-are-a-media-scandal-thats-why-the-media-arent-reporting-on-them-fairly\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">intransigent refusal<\/a> to accept responsibility for their <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/07\/28\/fauci-diary-revelations-prove-jake-tapper-was-never-a-real-journalist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">complicity in promoting<\/a> Anthony Fauci\u2019s devastatingly costly mistakes during the Covid pandemic, one could spend many hours attempting to find left-wing professional journalists who were able to admit they made a mistake or had a wrong opinion.<\/p>\n<p>And, it is worth noting, these trends far predate the phenomenon that is Trump: CNN was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/journalism\/2012\/11\/01\/coverage-candidates-media-sector-and-cable-outlet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">blatantly biased<\/a> in its coverage of Obama versus Romney; MSNBC demonstrated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/journalism\/2008\/05\/29\/differences-by-media\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">obvious favoritism<\/a> toward Obama over the McCain-Palin ticket; corporate media in the 1960s and 1970s forewent all claims to journalistic objectivity in their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/articles\/2005\/06\/kennedynixon.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">united<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/articles\/2009\/10\/the_slander_network.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hatred<\/a> of Richard Nixon.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>The Irrelevance of the Fourth Estate<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>What explains leftist legacy media\u2019s inability to see what so many of us Americans see about themselves? One answer proposed by celebrated 19th-century English author Anthony Trollope is that the journalistic profession tends toward a certain messiah complex, since their role as the so-called \u201cfourth estate,\u201d in which they are to hold other institutions and people accountable, results in convincing themselves of their own moral superiority.<\/p>\n<p>In his novel <em>The Warden<\/em>, Trollope notes that the newspaperman is \u201ca pope, self-nominated, self-consecrated \u2026 one who can excommunicate thoroughly, fearfully, radically; put you beyond the pale of men\u2019s charity; make you odious to your dearest friends, and turn you into a monster to be pointed at by the finger!\u201d Trollope lays it on amusingly thick: \u201cIt is a fact amazing to ordinary mortals that [the newspaperman] is never wrong. With what endless care, with what unsparing labour, do we not strive to get together for our great national council the men most fitting to compose it.\u201d The media outlet serves as a \u201cMount Olympus \u2026 the mouthpiece of all the wisdom of this great country,\u201d while the journalist is someone who \u201cwalked on from day to day, studiously striving to look a man, but knowing within his breast that he was a god.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The latest controversy over the White House removing the press credentials of CNN, MS NOW, and Politico further exposes legacy media\u2019s delusions of their own self-importance and how impervious they are to contrition or self-reflection. They apparently believe they have a First Amendment \u201cright\u201d to have access to and report on the president. Thankfully, in an increasingly diverse and decentralized media environment, their role in American politics is finally waning as citizens turn to other, more virtuous, responsible, and principled sources of news.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Jack Danielson (a pen name) has almost 15 years of managerial experience in a variety of jobs in the United States and abroad. His writing had been featured in many publications. The Federalist verifies the identities of its pseudonymous authors.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media sue Trump over White House access ban<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4298,"featured_media":2669827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Copy-of-Untitled-2026-09-24T161112.379.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[34959,4188,5894,32127],"class_list":["post-2669826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-legacy-media","tag-media","tag-politics","tag-white-house"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Copy-of-Untitled-2026-09-24T161112.379.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2669826","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\/4298"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2669826"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2669826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2669829,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2669826\/revisions\/2669829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2669827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2669826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2669826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2669826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}