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
What broke it is the same thing that has broken everything else, greed.
@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.
Great take on it all.
When or why did our society stop holding people accountable with definite punishments for dysfunctional and or illegal behaviors?
fyi times reported that the republican party vetted him, was aware of his bs cv, and still spent 100's of thousands of $ on his campaign
this new 'outrage' is yet more performance politics on the part of rethuglikkkans
@normsmusic Ted Turner broke it and it's been downhill ever since.