What happens to journalism when narrative detaches from reality?

I watched a great podcast today that addressed that Q in some detail. Retired US military guy Danny Davis had retired Brit spook and diplomat Alastair Crooke on, and they spent an hour dissing the Empire that once provided their paycheques. They covered in some detail the Trump regime’s ongoing campaign to pursue policies completely divorced from on-the-ground realities. The American Empire is bleeding out in the Middle East and it is bleeding out in Ukraine, and there’s no strategy in sight that promises anything other than more bleeding. Yes, for Russia and Iran, but ultimately, for America too. Our legacy media still push the absurd notion that a Ukrainian victory is just around the corner. I can’t imagine what corner that might be. There was a time just weeks into this war when a peace deal was just around the corner, but then Boris showed up with “NATO is 100% behind you with whatever it takes for as long as it takes.” Ukraine has been taking the dirty end ever since and there’s been no sign NATO ever had either the guns or the balls to fight, although they are planning some new factories that might begin to address NATO deficiencies in… oh ten or twenty years or so? Yet legacy media platforms keep pushing for more war. That’s an embarrassment to the profession of jounalism. Just today Doug Saunders informed me that Zelly may in fact be the reincarnation of Winston Churchill, but, like Winston, he’s a really shitty leader on the domestic side. Sure, so that’s the guy to follow if you’re keen for more war? How is that still attached to reality? Doug asserts that Zelly’s election in 2019 was the “permanent end to far-right politics in Ukraine.” Huh? Within two weeks of Zelly’s win the far-right had overturned his election platform 100% and consolidated their grip on power. I’m sure Dopey Doug understands this as well as I do, but his paycheque depends on hewing to the approved narrative long after it’s completely detached from reality. At the end of the war, hopefully there will be some accountability for the hordes of Western politicians who kept pushing for more war. NATO reparations for Ukraine after our war-mongering destroyed their country is the least we owe Ukraine.