but these right-wing sources distort the "regular" media because they set the narrative.
the whole hillary email scandal, and the entire right-wing faux scandal machine, illustrates this.
the endless email saga officlally ended with comey saying she may have been careless but there's no crime here because there was no criminal intent and no evidence any confidential information ever fell into "enemy" hands. but they could have saved us a lot of time if they had asked those questions first. the whole thing was basically guaranteed to end in "there's nothing here". a minor administrative slip-up at the worst.
i used to work in a secure environment. no one would even get fired for doing what hillary (or her admin) did. you'd fix the problem, maybe say don't do that again, and move on. maybe it goes down on your record as a warning, but that's it.
it was basically a non-scandal from the get-go, yet it completely dominated all coverage of hillary during 2016, including in the "normal" media.
we have nothing like that to counter. there's never any relentless coverage of any republican scandal. people forget that he's accused of assaulting or molesting or otherwise sexually inappropriate behavior by i think 25 women. people don't even *realize* that his payment of $130,000 to stormy to keep a personal secret is a *massive* red flag for national security. people think hillary was a national security risk because of the email nonsense, but don't realize that paying to keep a secret is *exactly* the sort of thing they look for when evaluating if someone is vulnerable to blackmail or otherwise could be motivated to hand over secrets for money.
so people get a twisted, right-wing view even inspired by foxnews and the like, even if they never watch foxnews directly.
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