Many former media members were stunned, depressed, or both by the extraordinary re-election. President-elect Donald TrumpHe is the one who carried the wave of economic discontent and anti-wokeness into the White House for the second time.

Perhaps the lack of dissenting pro-Trump voices in these news organizations is responsible for the latest media upset.

Having dissenting voices used to be an industry standard, but not anymore in the Trump era; because multiple broadcasting organizations fail to have true ideological diversity and representation among their employees.

CNN conservative political analyst Scott Jennings became a breakout star in the final weeks of the election. Being Trump’s “lone” defender on a panel full of liberals.

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David Urban and Shermichael Singleton are also regular GOP panelists, but they are vastly outnumbered by conservative or token Republican Trump critics like Adam Kinzinger and Ana Navarro, who both spoke in support of Harris at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Trump aide Alyssa Farah Griffin, SE Cupp and Margaret Hoover.

CNN contributor Adam Kinzinger speaks in support of Vice President Kamala Harris at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, on August 22, 2024. (Paul Steinhauser – Fox News)

There are no pro-Trump voices on MSNBC’s payroll, and instead there are former Republicans and conservatives; nearly all of them rallied behind Harris, as did hosts Joe Scarborough, Nicolle Wallace and Michael Steele, as well as contributors Jennifer Rubin, Charlie Sykes, Elise Jordan. Matthew Dowd, Tim Miller, Susan Del Percio, former Ohio Governor John Kasich and former Florida congressman David Jolly.

Rick Wilson and Stuart Stevens of The Lincoln Project, former George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum, Sarah Longwell of The Bulwark, former GOP congressman Joe Walsh, and The Atlantic staff writer Tom Nichols are frequent but not paid contributors They serve as MSNBC guests.

They all cut their teeth in conservative or Republican circles, but while exit polls show Trump carrying about 95 percent of self-identified Republicans in 2024, they are not representative of the broader electorate.

NBC News crashed earlier this year after announcing the hiring of former Republican National Committee chairwoman and Trump ally Ronna McDaniel, but that situation quickly turned around After violent reactions from on-air talent.

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MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and NBC’s Chuck Todd led on-air attacks against former RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel after NBC News announced it had hired her as an attendee, but that situation was quickly reversed. (Getty Images/RNC)

MSNBC host Jen Psaki, who caused consternation after the election, admitted that NeverTrumpers Democrats, who make up the majority of the channel’s pundits, “over-listened and over-supported.”

“The Trump defectors, the NeverTrumpers who have and have important voices, these are not the winning coalition,” Psaki said Friday. he said.

ABC’s”Appearance” is hosted by six anti-Trump hosts: Joy Behar, Whoopi Goldberg, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, Alyssa Farah Griffin and Ana Navarro, who currently represent a minority in the country. As Harris-supporting Republicans, Griffin and Navarro were even rarer birds .

Former co-host Meghan McCain criticized ABC News for the lack of a pro-Trump voice on her long-running daytime talk show.

“It’s a real disservice on ABC News’ part that there wasn’t a single conservative woman on The View this morning who voted for Trump or who didn’t hesitate to explain to America why Trump is still so popular with his supporters.” McCain sent to x on Wednesday.

talk with Fox News Digital Last week, he revealed that he found the series intolerant of conservatives. McCain sat in the iconic conservative seat from 2017 to 2021 before leaving the program. While not a Trump supporter, he was more likely to debate issues with his liberal co-hosts and defend the Republican position.

“They disrespect conservative people, especially conservative women, and find them intolerable traitors to your gender,” she said of the program. “So they’ll be so hostile to you that people don’t want to be there, and I think that’s another reason why a conservative woman shouldn’t be there, because the hosts can’t handle that. And trust me, I know what I’m talking about.”

Many of the hosts of “The View” wore black following President-elect Trump’s victory. (Screenshot/ABC News)

The country’s two largest liberal newspapers, The Washington Post and The New York Times, have the same problem.

Following his recent departure from “Democracy Dies in Darkness,” Fox News contributor Marc Thiessen now has the only voice sympathetic to Trump. contributing columnist Hugh Hewitt. He went viral after arguing with Jonathan Capehart, the liberal host of the Washington Post’s online show “First Look,” on Nov. 1 and then leaving.

Hewitt called the series “the most unfair election ad I’ve ever been a part of.” Meanwhile, the majority of the newspaper’s columnists are strongly opposed to Trump.

Hewitt’s exodus follows a left-wing collapse at The Post when owner Jeff Bezos blocked the paper from endorsing Harris as part of a new policy ending presidential endorsements.

Conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt left his position as a contributing columnist for the Washington Post earlier this month. (Washington Post)

New York Times It’s home to many liberal columnists, as well as moderate and right-of-center columnists like David Brooks, Bret Stephens, and Ross Douthat, none of whom would be described as Trump fans. But in 2023, The Times sought to highlight its ideological diversity by hiring David French as a columnist.

“Writing about politics and current events in the era of Donald Trump ideally requires a variety of qualities that do not always, or even often, come together: factual and intellectual clarity, moral seriousness, and generosity toward others and humility toward oneself. Happily for Times Opinion, this characteristics are extraordinarily embodied in David French,” the newspaper wrote in a press release at the time.

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Another harsh critic of Trump, the Frenchman, also got his way called conservative situation For voting for Harris in a column this year.

“To overlook the many voices advocating for or examining the possibility of Trump winning the election is a misreading of our Opinion report,” a spokesperson for The Times told Fox News Digital, sending links to guest articles and interviews defending Trump. Pro-Trump lawmakers.

NPR faced its own turmoil in April. senior editor Uri Berliner In a dazzling column published in The Free Press, he noted the organization’s left-wing bias and shared his stunning claim that there were once 87 registered Democrats and “zero Republicans” in editorial positions at headquarters in Washington, D.C. NPR’s leadership disputed this characterization. Berliner later resigned from NPR amid civil unrest and joined The Free Press.

Uri Berliner was a longtime NPR editor who resigned in April after being suspended for publicly criticizing NPR’s reporting. (Getty Images)

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Whether…or old media Time will tell if the new Trump administration moves toward allowing voices in support of the 47th president to have a say in the conversation. But judging by the lack of introspection following Trump’s victory in 2016 and the apparent intolerance of viewpoint diversity in liberal newsrooms, serious reforms seem doubtful.