nothing annoys me more than the notion of an "expectations game." there is no rule that says journalists must evaluate political events on the basis of expectations set by party apparatchiks. edition.cnn.com/2024/06/26/p...
So fuckin weird that media is just going along with this. They're basically the same age, they were in high school at the same time: during the Eisenhower administration. They're both old AF, but only one is old and a criminal.
Your question contains the answer. I mean, if you assume the ownership class wants Trump to win, then the incentives implied in your question dictate the reason CNN does only one of those things.
They made that when David Zaslav got himself so deep in debt from the WBD merger and the Hollywood strikes he helped prolong/create, installing fascism was his fastest way out of it
