Prefacing this with the coordinated media blackout on the laptop story was horrendous. You couldn't even send a message using Messenger to a friend about it.

The long form journalism that the partisan press produces, both sides here, amounts to little more than fan service. It's incapable of investigating things out of public interest without it relating to their kayfabe. MSNBC can produce thousands of hours about Trump/Russia, but the for the Snowden leaks you get a few seconds of a professional talking head telling you how Snowden is a bad man.