Claims

Media attention and policy change in California now follows a novel pattern where alternative media (Murdoch outlets, Substack, Twitter) have been sufficient to move politicians, reversing the traditional sequence where mainstream media coverage drove policy change

The fact that mainstream media deranged hatred of Trump was not sufficient to stop him from winning in 2016 demonstrates how weak the media has become relative to its power in earlier decades.

Rachel Maddow's Russiagate reporting, which claimed the Trump campaign was compromised by Russia, could be characterized as a 'frontal assault on American democracy' using the same logic applied to Trump's 2020 election denial claims, revealing asymmetry in how anti-democratic behavior is defined.