Maybe because a contrarian take on the news is always popular, many pundits have written off the House Select Committee' s public hearings on the January 6 insurrection in advance. Their reasoning runs the gamut from public indifference to the outright hostility of Fox news to any coverage at all. The latter means millions of citizens who already believe the big lie about the 2020 elections will never have a chance to compare tRump world's propaganda with truth.
As one pundit concluded, in our fractured media universe, most people consume the stories they agree with and rarely venture onto other platforms to sample opposing views, much less compare the different versions of the same story. For those who grew up in the 50s through the 90s, the three major networks, ABC, CBS and NBC held a monopoly on the stories of the day. With the advent of Faux News in the late 90s, right wing grievance became the network's daily dish. The proliferation of social media from 2000 and on further split the media's influence.
If a democratic polity can't agree on the facts, I'm not sure of the future of democracy.
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