Throughout the Age of Trump, the American mainstream news media has sounded increasingly like a broken record, repeatedly describing Donald Trump's innumerable misdeeds as "unimaginable" or "unthinkable" or "shocking." This approach clearly attracts clicks and advertising dollars. By comparison, Joe Biden is boring. His administration has been generally competent and free of scandal. Perversely, that's one of the main reasons why the mainstream media has turned against him.
With the House Jan. 6 committee hearings, the media circus has played out true to form, adding the term "revelation" to its recirculating vocabulary for describing Donald Trump and his confederates and their documented crimes. In reality, there is nothing truly "shocking" about the descriptions of Trump's conduct, and the "revelations" emerging from the committee hearings are hardly biblical epiphanies. That conclusion should be obvious for media professionals who are paid to follow public matters. Donald Trump is utterly transparent and predictable — and has unapologetically been that way for all of his public life.
