Ah, the tangled web of the media and politics—where truth often becomes as elusive as Bigfoot riding a unicorn. This week, we have a story that might just be the final nail in the coffin for what some would call the “legacy media mob.” A revelation like a long-awaited punchline confirms what conservatives have suspected for years: the Trump-Russia collusion narrative was more fiction than fact.

Thanks to newly declassified documents and insights shared by the Director of National Intelligence, it turns out the infamous Russia hoax was just that—a hoax. A phony political hit job constructed by Democrats and some government officials to discredit and undermine the peaceful transition of Trump’s 2016 victory. For years, this elaborate fiction consumed the better part of Donald Trump’s first term, clouding every political move he made with suspicion and needless controversy.

In the world of some so-called journalists, skepticism took a backseat to sensationalism. They parroted the Russia collusion tale as if it were gospel. With not a hint of irony, they pushed a narrative with no questions asked, no research done. Oh, the joy they seemed to find in trashing Trump while claiming the moral high ground, blissfully unburdened by the pesky constraints of actual evidence. It was all too easy to peddle conspiracy theories when they aligned so perfectly with their own biases.

The big media outlets, with their pressing desire for drama, let big personalities control the narrative. They reported the dossier’s salacious claims so brazenly it was as if they hoped to win a Pulitzer for best original screenplay. Even when the so-called revelations were debunked, the story stuck—or at least, they stubbornly stuck to it. Why let the facts get in the way of a juicy, albeit entirely false, story about international espionage and golden showers?

As new documents highlight the discrepancies and dishonesty, the media’s credibility hangs by a gossamer thread. Has this spurred any thoughtful introspection among the purveyors of so-called news? Not exactly. Their response to this mess along with the Biden administration’s slip-ups is to shuffle past as though it were yesterday’s news. Yet here we are, with a public increasingly skeptical of the fairy tales spun by the media giants. It seems Americans are waking up, viewing these breathtaking absurdities with the frequency of a bad TV rerun.

In an era where the cognoscenti of the media world have made it clear they’re either unwilling or unable to distinguish fact from fiction, it’s no wonder trust in journalism has eroded like sandcastles in the tide. This ‘news’ was more or less theater, a ploy to suit narratives and agendas rather than inform the public. As the defunct legacy media continues losing relevance and viewers, the most insightful feedback they might receive from the public could very well be silence.