The game has changed. There’s so many other places to get news. When Infowars is more credible than the mainstream media, you know that game is up.
If it weren’t for 9/11, the media would have had Bush with a 40% approval rating after year one. Thanks to the exposure of the uniparty, fake news, and rise of alt-media, they don’t have the market cornered anymore.
Bush was already tanking around the summer of '01 after months of being hammered for wanting to increase arsenic in drinking water.