Now that the 1/6 committee has unearthed enough dirt for the media to want to run with it as a Trump/GOP scandal, the media no longer feels compelled to make up phony Biden scandals for ratings, and Biden’s approval rating is ticking upward accordingly. Funny how that works.
Keep in mind that the media (with the exception of Fox) doesn’t want to have to rely on phony Biden scandals for ratings. That causes credibility issues for them, and it turns out phony Biden scandals don’t boost ratings much anyway. It’s just all they’ve had to work with lately.
Trump is under criminal investigation in three jurisdictions, two of which have reached the grand jury stage. Huge pivotal story. But info publicly surfaces so slowly at this stage of a criminal probe, the media can’t do daily stories on it, and so mostly just ignores it.
And for quite awhile the 1/6 committee was in information gathering mode with lower level witnesses, which is what gives you dirt on the bigger fish and allows you to make a run at them. But that also produced very little public information; not viable for daily ratings.
Now that the 1/6 probe has unearthed dirt about Trump, Meadows, Jordan, etc, and it’s clear more dirt will surface every day for awhile, the media is comfortable settling in with this as its main narrative. Still some doomsday hyperbole. But fake Biden scandals no longer needed.
Which is lucky for the media, because not only did the fake Biden scandals not boost ratings, they’re becoming non-viable. Gas prices have been dropping steadily for six weeks now, so the media can’t keep getting away with falsely telling audiences they’re rising, etc.
The media is not the good guys, nor are they cartoon villains. Major media types just all consider it their job to hit their ratings marks no matter what – and then the more honest reporters will try to include some truth and knowledge within that ratings framework if they can.
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