Problems Pile Up in America – But Leading Media Ignore Concerns

For decades, the analysts at Media Tenor have been evaluating the most important news programs of selected US broadcasters on a daily basis: Which topics are at the forefront of coverage, which politicians, companies, researchers are visible with approaches to solutions? Using the example of the news content of CBS on the one hand and FOX on the other, we have been showing since 2013 how far removed the broadcasters are from the fears of their audience when setting their agenda: It's not just 2024 that inflation tops the list when PEW pollsters ask people about their biggest concerns. 

With a share of just 1 percent, the audience of the two broadcasters rarely finds an offer as to how their problems could be alleviated or even solved by whom. In a country that, according to the charity Good360, now has to provide free food to 40 percent of its people because the income reality in the U.S. has deteriorated so much, it is hardly surprising that radicalization is on the rise on the one hand, and that the problem of " vanishing voters" described by Thomas Patterson in 1996 is growing on the other.