The MSM is owned by shareholding companies, and those folks are at least financially conservative because due diligence demands it. The GOP has a lot bigger market share in this space alone, which itself will affect the market.
Worse, if you can see how little real information we get, imagine what they get in those monopolized media markets that start 30 minutes outside of a major city.
Underscoring this is the absolutely untenable position wherein you can make money spreading lies about a vaccine during a pandemic. This is a society eating itself, but more likely, the fruit of the GOP will to power has let a lot of foreign actors under the door, bearing gifts.
As a young intelligence operative, it must have seemed too easy to see the West being hamstrung by the Right over the last 50 years. The unions busted, the jobs sent away. All this is ripe for internal struggle anywhere. The fact that cash is sucked out of the US every day to build a Chinese military is laughable.