Exactly. And when not all in the same room it will be much harder for them to collaborate on the angle of the day so they flood the airwaves with all using the same words...like gravitas. Remember when they did that with Cheney?
Hell yea I remember “gravitas” - a word that hadn’t been used in print in DECADES popped in to every reporter’s mind at the same time.
It is a VERY WEIRD place to live when the media, which is more of a vocation than a profession, acts as if they have some claim to be allowed to run the country.
I don’t know what the media was like 240 years ago, and I wish to hell that I could channel the founders, but I strongly suspect that they NEVER behaved this way, at least least into the 20th century and it’s difficult to see how those people would give them the protections that allow them to do this crap - if the media was like it is today.
As I’ve said before, when I see/hear reports of media people being killed or going missing in other countries, I wonder to myself whether they are trying the same stunts over there, rather than legitimately reporting facts...