I think you'll find that what you see on network or cable news or NPR was often a scandal du jour a day or two before on Twitter. On cable news, they literally put up someone's tweets with some frequency. The only alt-site that ever happens with is Truth Social, and only for Donald Trump there. 1/

This dynamic is a bit diminished from what it used to be, but not so much. British politics has been completely overthrown, for example, in the last few weeks, by Musk's resurrection of the Rotherham scandal. Musk is a special case, you might argue, but a prodigious and destructive case. /fin