Yes, there are ‘maverick’ democrats and Gabard, Yang and Sanders are among them. But notice NOT ONE of them are the toast of the town or often quoted on big issues. In fact those three are uniformly ignored by the MSM.
And no, Republicans have not caught up with democrats with media advantage.
America’s largest newspaper chain Gannett, the largest newspaper chain in the country has decided to drop their biased op-ed sections. That’s their big bow to fairness. They should be adding conservative voices but they’re not.
And as far as my local paper is concerned - there hasn’t been one conservative working in the newsroom in over 40 years.
So what though? The publics trust in the media is at an all time low, no one takes it seriously anymore except extreme partisan ideologues that have created echo chambers for their opinions. This goes for the left and right.
The market apparently wants to have their preconceived biases repeated back to them over and over. The news media is all about validating it’s audiences opinions instead of presenting actual news. All you need to do is turn on MSNBC OAN CNN fox or any of the largest outlets to see this.
I think most intelligent people who don’t want to be spoonfeed a narrative are now getting their news from the internet.
The media attacks anyone who challenges the status quo. Remember Ron Paul?