Genuine question: Isn't the media's coverage alienating their primary audience (older adults)?

[NoveltySocks]

From my millennial perspective, it seems like a bunch of privileged snobs (most of whom aren't exactly young themselves) are behaving in an extremely ageist manner. I believe the median age for all the major channels is around 70, so how does this coverage feel to the folks tuning in?

[Diraven]

1. My parents are only a few years younger than Biden

The way they perceive it is the media is showing them that Biden is so much worse off than they are so it makes them feel superior and good about themselves.

[The Blue Flower]

2. 75 years old and disgusted

Sick of the ageist attacks on a great president.

[LisaL]

3. Maybe if everybody stopped watching, the media will stop.

Just maybe. I am sick of them.

[MOMFUDSKI]

4. Yes.

Just look at CNN imploding

[JustAnotherGen]

5. I'm 51

Gen X - and I'm alienated by the media's behavior.

[Patton French]

6. That's actually a really good question.

There are many people in that age range who should be absolutely offended by this line of attack.

[tavernier]

7. It does appear that they are ganging up on him

And at the same time completely ignoring monumental problems from trump.

That tends to make people wonder why.

[Silent3]

8. I have a sister who's 74, and she'd be chewed to bits if she got on DU...

...because she's very worried about not only Biden beating Trump, but Biden doing a good job if he wins.

I've told her about how dicey a play replacing Biden would be, and told her I certainly have no qualms myself about Biden doing a good job as President, but that doesn't fully assuage her concerns.

[GenThePerservering]

10. Well, Trump may as well just walk right into the oval office

if Biden 'gets replaced' - the lack of faith and unity in the Dem party will spell the end. Then we'd have someone in the White House who is really horrible.

[Silent3]

12. So my sister's concerns are simply unacceptable disloyalty?

Even though the thing she fears most is Trump's reelection? Perhaps the next time I see her it would help if I called her a whining bed wetter and refused to see her until she shapes up and says she wants Biden to stay in the race?

[hunter]

9. Traditional television created Trump.

Traditional television must die.

I think it is dying too, along with its audience. My adult children and their cousins pay no attention to traditional television or radio. All they care about is their cell phones and internet connections. They haven't got antennas attached to their televisions and they've never paid a cable bill.

I quit television news and opinion in disgust following the run-up to the Iraq War. My wife has never watched television news.

We quit traditional television entirely in 2012. I know the exact date because the last show I recorded was the grand finale of Chuck. After that we rearranged our family room and I didn't bother to hook up an antenna. The television we have now has never been programmed to receive any channels. It's connected to a cheap blu-ray player and whatever streaming dongle I happen to be despising least.

Our old DVD player supported up to four streaming channels and had a very simple menu and remote, but streaming on that is no longer supported. We've still got our old Nintendo Wii, which we could also watch Netflix on, but I don't know if that still works
.

[GenThePerservering]

11. I don't watch TV news or TV, actually

haven't in years - not since they canceled Hee Haw.