General Discussion

corporate media have normalized both impropriety, illegality and even violence done by the felon's "dark state" actors, to the point where their impropriety, illegality, even the violence no longer make headlines. It's as if their oppressive daily occurrence can no longer be suffered, and so are gradually shoved aside until they're ignored, a lot like landscape.

We seen him and his people groom, threaten, and shake down media to accept that the consumer market can't miss what it doesn't see or know about. Once the dishonesty and secrecy are background, media's journalistic load is lightened, so it can serve up "serious" announcements of investigations of political opponents, as the daily shiny foreground.

In this landscape one might expect media to shove things like boring data (BLS numbers) or unnecessary democracy (voter suppression on the run ups to 2026 and 2028) aside.

Chuck D on Air America used to call all this the "dumbassification of America."

Media owners have long forgotten to care that those (and they are many) who benefit most from all this are those who remain hidden behind the landscape.