Regional and national news cite Socolow on mainstream media and the election
The Boston Globe interviewed Michael Socolow, University of Maine professor of communication and journalism, for an article titled “How Trump avoided the mainstream media — and won the presidency.” “The real threat to the mainstream media as we know it is that there now exists a successful model for avoiding them that didn’t before Nov. 5,” he said. In their coverage of the relevance of mainstream media in the election cycle, The Hill and The Hollywood Reporter cited a post from Socolow on X, formerly known as Twitter, which read “That a president-elect could win so overwhelmingly in popular vote + electoral college while ignoring the New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, CBS News, NBC News, & CNN (while spending hours with Joe Rogan) should be a moment of self-reflective reckoning for ‘mainstream’ media.”