This function - to cover the front page in stories favorable to trump and bury unfavorable stories - is as or more important to the media's project of electing Trump as the tenor of the individual articles and stories is

CNN's front page was literally covered in it yesterday, a small box for Vance's appearence on CNN's own sunday show was the only other story above the fold. Youtube's "BREAKING NEWS" chumbox was exclusively "assassination attempt" stories last night (I basically never watch political videos on YT)

If you consider your only important readers to be those readers who are endlessly fascinated with and admiring of Donald Trump, it's going to condition what you run, how frequently you run it, and how prominently you position it.

say it michael, say the thing