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
@normsmusic
He benefited from being unknown, he just appeared. I’m willing to give the the media a bit of a break. The evidence of his lies didn’t take long to find but it did take time. He became news so fast that the media had to play catch-up. It’s still breaking.