"Media has given greater attention to the problems and their political consequences than to progress in addressing them"

[tanyev]

3. Yes. A lot of reasons get mentioned for our dismal media--

complicity, right wing owners, the profit of clickbait, laziness, newstainment—but another one I think should be mentioned is an obsession with inside baseball.

Something happens and then a lot of pundits want to show off how much they know about politics and how many important contacts they have by instantly going to how this will affect the election in District X, behind the scenes gossip of how it happened, or what kind of a bind this will create for Democrats, etc.

As the article said, this is what they focus on instead of addressing problems and how they can or are being solved.