I wish I knew who to attribute this to, but as I once heard someone observe that the #2 job of the media is to promote the stories they want you to know about. Their #1 job is to suppress the stories they’d rather you not know about.
“I wish I knew who to attribute this to, but as I once heard someone observe that the #2 job of the media is to promote the stories they want you to know about. Their #1 job is to suppress the stories they’d rather you not know about.”
I think it’s very clear that’s exactly what they do - in that order. Look at the Hillary 2016 campaign - she was pure as driven snow in their eyes.