It never ends, does it?
Every night it seems harder and harder to watch more than ten minutes of a news segment on almost any channel. For the months leading up to Trump's inauguration and the month or two after, the media solely focused Trump's "ties to Russia," not bothering to report on major world and national headlines that should have garnered much more attention. Multiple lone-wolf attacks committed by Isis affiliates, political turmoil in the French Election, what actually was occurring in the Trump Administration, and the developing threats America faces from the Middle East were all buried below the horizon while reporters continued to beat the horse dead with the same headlines every night. Even before the Russia narrative was created, there was the tax returns. For two solid months leading up to the election, despite incredible leaks revealing corrupt Clinton behavior, CNN, MNSBC, and even Fox News focused heavily on the fact that Trump hadn't released his tax returns. No one remained as consistent on Clinton's unreleased paid speech transcripts, an exact parallel to Trump's taxes, as they did on Trump's taxes, but apparently those back room speeches weren't as important to the daily viewer. Just recently on Maddow's MSNBC show, she played up a leak of the President's filed taxes from 2005 (which is borderline illegal). Not only was her lead up and presentation utterly pathetic, but she revealed that Trump had paid a whopping 38 million on 150 million of profit in taxes. This is more than Bernie, Obama, and Clinton. While this doesn't prove much about Trump's overall tax practices, it killed the tax return narrative.
Maddow's show, possibly one of the worst on the afternoon lineup, just recently had one of its most humiliating incidents. It blamed Venezuela's massive protests on Trump, but gave absolutely no context. In the real world, the people are protesting the socialist government of Venezuela. Due to the crash in the value of oil in the past year, Venezuela's economy crumbled. Thousands have starved to death. Citizens have broken into zoos and eaten horses. Money has virtually no value. Even Maddow couldn't pull this one on her audience. Her failed attempt at spinning news that has absolutely nothing to do with the US government was posted on hundreds of social networking sites and throughout news agencies.
When one narrative dies, its immediately on to the next one.
Notice how days after Maddow completely exposed the truth, that Trump actually paid taxes, Trump's taxes haven't been mentioned once by any single network.
Days after the Syria strike that angered Russia, the media has nearly forgotten about Putin's and Trump's bromance. With big news on a coming government shutdown, Trump's tax overhaul, and Congress' attempt to pass a bill to repeal and replace Obama Care coming in the next week, we won't have to wait long to see what the new narrative will be. The media has to continue giving its viewer what they want, not real news.