U.S. Rep. Jerry Carl (R-Mobile) believes one of the lessons from Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 Presidential election is that the legacy mainstream needs to make some painful changes if they want to stay relevant.
“I think the media, if they pay attention to what just happened in this election with Trump, they better get a little smarter,” Carl said Tuesday on FM Talk 106.5, “and they better start following, not following what they want to believe, and start following what the people are telling them.”
The congressman discussed his own relationship with members of the media while he was in office.
“[S]ome members up here constantly go after the press and dig at the press and pick a fight with the press. I don’t think that’s accomplishing anything up here,” he argued. “That’s not my job to come up here and fight with those folks. So I’ve got a pretty good relationship with them. I deliberately I won’t talk to them when I’m walking the halls, rule of thumb is I’m walking, I’m not talking, and they know that, so they’re very respectful to me.”
Carl said Trump’s election is going to force a change from most in the media.
“[W]hat Trump has done in this last election is going to change how a lot of the press works,” he said. “Now, most people sitting at home right now watching TV and watching The View and that type of stuff. I don’t understand why the press pushes the Views view anyway. I find them absolutely useless. But I’m not one of those that sitting home watching it.”
“Obviously, there must be a lot of people that do, but those folks want to soften up a little bit if they’re going to get along. I don’t anticipate that happening, but the written press, I think will. I think the written press will have an access to the President and having access to some of these legislators.”
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