If you are wondering how it came to pass...

...that the media no longer exist to inform you, but to enrich and empower themselves as lapdogs to still richer and more powerful people, look no farther.

And stop, by the way, believing the lie that there are two parties in DC, one of which cares about you and your concerns. Note the guest list. These people belong to a class that regards you and me as fodder and food, not as fellow citizens. They don't live in the same world as garden variety citizens of the US. Their transparent ambition is to escape all that just as much as the transparent ambition of a Lake Wobegon teenager is to get away from Lake Wobegon.