On Tuesday and in the days since, the American news media responded to the spectacle of Donald Trump's indictment and arraignment with a maelstrom, a breathless narrative that kept repeating how this was "history is in the making" and these are "uncharted waters."
However, part of this narrative was also that somehow Trump's arrest and arraignment still did not live up to box office expectations for the symbiote that is the Donald Trump mainstream news media "if it bleeds it leads" entertainment machine. On his Apple TV+ show, comedian Jon Stewart described this perfectly as an "epic f**king media fail" where, "Only our media, those cloistered, short attention span, own-ass-spelunking defenders of democracy, find a president paying hush money to a Playboy model and an adult film star, and then cooking the books to help himself win an election, underwhelming and boring."
