The current media environment demonstrates that inaccurate reporting in favor of the audience biases is actually rewarded.

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/523045-cable-news-october...

Tucker Carlson spent the month of October pushing Russian disinfo on Hunter Biden, all for it to culminate in "losing" his documents, re-finding them and then suddenly, inexplicably backing down.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/tucker-carlson-suddenly-says-i...