American media has always been a constellation of far right propaganda mascarading as "Fair and Balanced" centrism and mainstream progressive mom and pop outlets being censored as Communist Agitprop.

It is a major reason why Americans vote so much farther to the right than their polling suggests.

But to say it is dead? The right wing outlets do incredibly well, precisely because they parrot the corporate line. They bring in oodles of cash and heavily enrich their owners and major contributors.

Nobody in Russia or India enjoys the kind of financial success and political influence like Murdoch or Sulzberger.

Part of me wonders if they were trying to entrap the media orgs. And the only reason it came out now was because none of them bit.

It doesn't matter. He'll say it was rigged regardless. If there's dirt in that them there hacked data I want it publicized