If you haven’t ‘stepped away from the TV’ yet, NOW is the time!
It goes beyond that. These people run a bunch of puff piece advertisements, or sob story puff pieces, then they run a poll and marvel at how things have changed.
There are millions of americans who are watching, and these advertisements disguised as news do have an effect, unfortunately. Once the poll comes out it becomes a double wham.
They did the same thing during the bush years, in reverse. They’d do hit piece after hit piece after hit piece, then marvel at the polls.
This is what they do to Sarah. Hit piece advertisements, then marvel at the low poll numbers.