John McQuaid on Nostr: The news media got overexcited about the potential of the Mueller investigation to ...
The news media got overexcited about the potential of the Mueller investigation to bring down Trump. Then it overcorrected, buying the Barr spin the Mueller report was a nothingburger, and then just backing off entirely amid the drumbeat of "Russia hoax" from Trump and the right (and Greenwald and others). The picture you get here is the political press caught in hype and anti-hype cycles, and cowed by right – unable to keep perspective and missing big things
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