Just days before the Iowa caucuses, Ron DeSantis complained that conservative media, led by Fox News, were intent on pleasing their viewers (and readers) to keep ratings (and clicks) and profits high, which affected the network's (and websites') coverage of political issues. In other words, though DeSantis would be loathe to admit this: the conservative media's coverage is far from the standards that traditional journalism aspires to.
"He's got basically a Praetorian Guard of the conservative media. Fox News, the websites, all this stuff. They just don’t — they don’t hold him accountable because they’re worried about losing viewers and they don’t want to have the ratings go down.”
Well, the guv hasn't changed his mind. From yesterday's Tampa Bay Times, reporting on remarks made by DeSantis to a small group of donors:
DeSantis said the conservative media’s “business model just doesn’t work if they offer any criticism of Trump,” according to NBC.
“I mean, he said at some point he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose a vote,” DeSantis said. “Well, I think he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and the conservative media wouldn’t even report on it that it had happened.”
That observation accurately critiques FNC et al. and the Trump cult that the Republican Party has become.