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The Problem with Media Beyond 2025

Duane Gundrum
3 min readNov 20, 2024

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The Problem with Media Beyond 2025

After the 2024 presidential election, one thing that has emerged is the realization that media has failed so many people and that things are probably not going to get any better going forward.

First, the mainstream media, much like in 2016, got everything wrong, again. Well known names in media made all sorts of proclamations that Harris was going to win. And she didn’t. She didn’t even come close.

And since the election, liberal media sources have been cannibalizing on themselves trying to create some narrative about how clueless people truly believe that they understand what went wrong, and as long as you continue to listen to them, they’ll show you how to get it right next time. Kind of like they tried to do after Clinton lost in 2016.

But if you think about it: the big names claiming knowledge really should be the last people you ever listen to again. But they have jobs and need your money, so instead of going away forever, they’re going to keep dominating every news cycle, trying to convince you that they’re always on the right side of their stupid projections.

What really needs to happen is exactly what is going to happen, and that’s a gutting out of media as we know it. And as much as I realize that result is needed, it is also going to…

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Duane Gundrum
Duane Gundrum

Written by Duane Gundrum

Author of Innocent Until Proven Guilty and 15 other novels. Writer, college professor and computer game designer.

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