By MIG Reports
Key Takeaways:
- Joy Reid being fired from MSNBC and Jeff Bezos giving the Washington Post a new directive stirs discussion of a dying legacy media apparatus.
- Viewership and subscriptions are down for traditional media outlets as the Trump White House embraces new media and independent journalists.
- American trust in legacy media is extremely low and many believe the industry is quickly sinking and may be unrecoverable.
Legacy media continues to collapse as Americans reaffirm their distrust. Institutions like CNN, MSNBC, and The Washington Post have been deteriorating for years, and recent events are deepening fault lines in the industry. Recent events like Lester Holt leaving NBC, Joy Reid being fired from MSNBC, new directives for the Washington Post fuel discussions about the future of traditional news.