I do think media coverage matters and the disaster last night probably made some of it worse, but we were already in a crisis of normal people encountering journalists who openly long for Trump’s return, hate Biden, and twist their coverage to match. This is a media crisis, not a Biden crisis.
I also wonder how much weight is given to executive producers (and the journos themselves) who know the ratings were higher when Trump was president and want to get another four-year hit of that to please the executives and investors so actively (passively) put their fingers on the scales
Like, is this meaningfully different from what Joe & Mika were doing before? It isn’t. They’ve been demanding an imaginary white replacement for Joe and Kamala for months. Yeah, it’s more intense maybe but the substance? They’re repeating themselves from last week. I don’t think it’s worth engaging.