The American media is profoundly broken. The collapse of local newspapers and television coverage at a local level has allowed for impostors like George Santos to con their way through an election without fear of investigation or scrutiny.

At a national level, the overwhelming majority of the US political media has become economically dependent on their political partners. It is a symbiotic relationship that has spawned a vast “access economy.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/steveschmidt/p/the-collapse-of-the-american-media