According to Ipsos, the survey showed that fewer than one-third of Americans believe the Justice Department is conducting the investigation and prosecution of Hunter Biden in a “fair and nonpartisan manner.” In plainer words, a plurality of Americans see — or, at least, are not willing to dismiss — the appearance of corruption in the administration’s handling of the allegations that the president’s son enriched himself by retailing access to the highest echelons of the American government. …

What’s more interesting about this finding is that it is happening parallel to the issues on which the national news media is fixated. House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer’s memos aren’t generating national headlines beyond conservative media venues. The nightly network-news broadcasts aren’t devoting outsize attention to the government’s conduct of this investigation. To survey the media landscape is to forget that it was less than one week ago that the Justice Department took the extraordinary step of appointing a special counsel to prosecute the president’s son — proceedings which special counsel David Weiss indicated are inevitable now that Hunter Biden’s cushy plea agreement collapsed. The public is devoting its attention to this scandal and forming negative opinions about it independent of media’s nudging and goading.

[That certainly has to be related to the lack of trust in the mainstream media as an American institution, too. The lack of attention from the MSM likely contributes to that erosion, but the erosion itself is forcing Americans to get their input from other sources, such as social media, alternative media sources (such as ours), and direct from sources like House Oversight, in this instance. If ever there was evidence that the gatekeeping power of MSM and Big Tech are dissipating, this is it. — Ed]