In his Monday “Fourth Watch” newsletter, media critic Steve Krakauer reports The Acela Media is more out of touch than ever,” and the proof is their ardent belief that the January 6 Committee is the dominant issue of our time, and the public is ardently bored, which makes journalists upset. “The corporate press has been hammering the issues of “democracy,” January 6 and election denialism nonstop in the run-up to this midterm election,” he writes.

He starts with the bizarre episode of Peter Strzok telling MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace that when it comes to an attack on democracy, “9/11 is nothing compared to January 6,” then turns to the polls.

The latest Monmouth poll tracking the American people’s attitudes toward the January 6 committee and its revelations came out on Wednesday, and the results are more of the same. Just 8% of Americans say their opinions about that day have been changed by the committee’s hearings – the exact same as in August and up from 6% in June. 44% say they have no faith the committee could conduct a fair hearing — that’s the highest number yet, up 8% since August. But most importantly, just 36% of Americans say Donald Trump is “directly responsible” for what happened that day, a percentage that has been progressively declining since the hearings started.