“In fact, the lack of journalistic curiosity about these shell companies is quite alarming. “
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It’s not alarming. It’s completely predictable based on several decades of proven track record.
For one side (particularly for Trump), it’s not just curiosity, it is obsession. It’s the seriousness of the charge!
For the other side, like Biden, but other democrats as well, it’s obliviousness. These things wont even get covered, until it’s right in everyone’s faces, and then they spin spin spin.
It used to be the politicians who spun, but now the media does it all.
The media has spun the truth for quite some time in our nation's history. The extent of the spinning is what has gotten out of hand. Watergate was the beginning of the end for any real journalism.
Those I knew who were in a journalism major in college a decade later were being taught two things: (a) creating "gotcha" moments, like Watergate, and (b) creating "news" based on personal opinion and political leanings (nearly all leftist). Freedom of the press has been completely neutered.