Yeah I hadn't really considered the hit piece angle. I forget sometimes that there are people out there who believe a right wing government would make the economy better, and I really struggle to understand how there are people who are still on the fence, waiting to be swayed one way or the other as if there's not enough evidence yet to draw a conclusion.

I guess I'm also frustrated and exhausted and sometimes I just snap over some of the details that make it into the discussion when there are so many giant elephants in the room. I get that it doesn't add to the conversation, apologies.

My 2 cents - there's more than enough of both going on in the majority of the media (cue the "journalism is dead" drum). Some of these writers might be political fanatics who believe they're serving a cause, a good chunk of them probably just don't care and will write whatever they think gets them clicks, since that's basically how they get paid now. Whether their principles are shitty or they have none at all, they're both equally useful to the oligarchs.