The news is a business. Journalists say their job is to inform, but the people who pay them are interested in profits. Trump was extremely good for the news industry.
No one should mistake the media's reaction to the debate for concern for the nation's welfare or helpful suggestions to improve Democrats' chances this fall.
I'm not saying there's a conscious media conspiracy to reelect Trump, but that the news industry has incentives that favor exciting new things.
Biden coasting to the nomination is boring. The current storyline is more dramatic and is generating a tremendous amount of content
And if the NYT (or anyone else) seems to be carrying water for the Heritage Foundation perhaps develop a little self-awareness before parroting their positions.
Biden's DOJ targeting corporate collusion and price-fixing, targeting monpolies....and media consolidation do a lot to explain the media demands his replacement being so unrepresentative of the public response.
We also have to consider that the financial interests of owners and highly paid columnists are not aligned at all with democracy (they think), and none of them travel outside of their bubbles to understand why
