[BuckeyeTexan]

When did they ever do that? I’m 42 and I ain’t seen it yet.

[skeeter]

Up until not too long ago the news media still considered it their job to report significant events. They'd spin them leftwards if possible, but they'd widely report them.

Whats happening now is a new phenomena - they give inconvenient stories the barest minimum of coverage and, increasingly, ignore them altogether. This is new.