The work for the billionaires, not the American people.

It's the fear of losing access to the "political insider" bubble.
When the GOP decided that to be politically viable, candidates had to be lockstep with the party leadership, equal access disappeared.
The GOP practices winner take all politics by stereotype, there can be no nuance, and certainly no individuality.
Not counting the political leanings of the Media investors and ownership, the Media itself depends on access.
And if the reporters and journalists that provide "the news" are comfortably lazy pretty script readers, they're not going to jeopardize their celebrity and access doing something stupid like pointing out truth, consequences, or even just asking difficult or follow-on questions.

They know they can talk to Democrats. Hell, they can badger, challenge, or insult them, and there will always be Democrats ready to talk to them.

But they have to conform to talk to Republicans, so they play along with the GOP narrative.

They only lie, so why do they feel like they have to give them a platform for their propaganda? You’d think having the largest protest in US history against a sitting President who’s breaking one law after another, would maybe get more than a days coverage. MSNBC is the only decent coverage I saw for multi-days.

The entire presidential election coverage I saw was one after another of right wing talking points. Somehow the press allows the republicans to set the agenda, the view, and they perpetuate it.