Appealing To An Aging Cohort

Trump’s billionaire allies will now own CNN, Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ and NY Post — plus 185+ local tv stations and news in 100 markets.

They also control X, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, WhatsApp, TikTok, Truth and Twitch.

They control the AI you're integrating into your…

— Melanie D'Arrigo (@DarrigoMelanie) February 27, 2026

"Legacy media” is soon to be a swear word. TV news has never been more than a headline service. The audience for FoxNews is aging out. Newspapers are dinosaurs. I’m not thrilled with what’s replacing them: podcasts?

Hey @andrewschulz lemme help you out:

* He told you obvious lies

* People told you they were lies

* You thought you knew better because you’re on a podcast

* The corrupt media reenforced his message

* Now you’re paying the price

I’m glad you can admit you aren’t getting… https://t.co/9uDlbMLc8u

— Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) (@adamscochran) February 26, 2026

Hey @andrewschulz lemme help you out:

* He told you obvious lies

* People told you they were lies

* You thought you knew better because you’re on a podcast

* The corrupt media reenforced his message

* Now you’re paying the price

I’m glad you can admit you aren’t getting what you wanted.

But you have to also realize it’s because you ignored every damn warning sign - so we don’t make this mistake again.

Even Joe Rogan is wondering where he went wrong. It’s a process. 

In the 19th century, there were newspapers for every point of view and political opinion/national or ethnic group. “Citizen Kane” is mostly a warning about media control in too few hands. It’s a warning to us. In the 19th century Thoreau lamented the coming of the trains. Now we mourn their passing. “Citizen Kane” was about what we’ve grown up with. Why would we mourn its passing?

Tonight 1968, on CBS Evening News, Walter Cronkite declared that a Vietnam trip had shown him LBJ administration was wrong-- in fact, the war was in "stalemate" and U.S. should bargain for peace. LBJ reputedly reacted by saying if he'd lost Cronkite, he'd lost middle America. pic.twitter.com/EtFxoWsECv

— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) February 27, 2026

I remember Walter Cronkite. I remember hearing about this. Nixon was elected, and re-elected, on his promise to end the war. McGovern lost every state but Massachusetts in 1972, in part because he was the antiwar candidate.  King had delivered his Riverside Church speech almost a year before Cronkite decided LBJ was being less than forthcoming.

The war finally ended in April, 1975.

But Trump has brought it all down around his head in just 12 months. History doesn’t repeat itself.  And sometimes, it gets better.