If the media doesn't cover them as such, then people don't know and don't care. Inflation and the "near collapse of the economy" was in the news every damn day for the past several years—until now. Now, you get a one off about the price of beef going up, or chocolate. That's it. There is no drumbeat that trickles down from the ether into people's brains and daily conversations.

Like I said elsewhere yesterday, the economy was all you heard about from voters last year. Have prices gotten cheaper? No. Have they gone up? Yes. Yet yet yet . . . consumer confidence in the economy ticked up in July. Are they shopping at different stores? Nope. But one thing is different—how much they hear about it via the news or diffused from those who do "follow the news." Last year my local channel had a whole series on how inflation was affecting your pocket book. This summer? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Dead silence.

We know about the concentration camps. We know about the deportations. Some in the hinterlands know because they have been touched by them. But most Americans are oblivious. But they knew all about Biden's old and HRC's emails. Now, why is that? What makes the difference in knowing or not knowing?

Just because many people no longer get their news from newspapers or the teevee, the mainstream outlets still influence the narrative that does reach them—both in how the RW propaganda machine answers MM coverage and how MM address what the RWPM is putting out as well.