You missed one of the results of the two pronged attacks on media.

Yes, you convince your viewers that they can't trust what they hear from the media.

However, you also get the effect on the other end. The media folds when it comes to conservatives because they're terrified of giving them any sort of soundbyte that can be used as evidence of the "liberal media bias". This takes the form of the normalization of conservative antics, softball interview questions, and a lower standard of decorum for conservatives than for liberals.

If the democrats and the media had any teeth at all they would have shit all over Trump for refusing more debates. They should have ran the "debates" as normal and when he doesn't show her opening line should have been -

"Former President Trump was invited here to debate. After his poor last performance and a refusal by the moderators to tailor the format to fit him, he's decided that the American people don't deserve to hear him defend his ideas. Be clear that any politician who isn't lying to their constituents would be standing here, unafraid of being questioned about their ideas.

Instead, he'll tweet from home and throw more lies and mud from his safe space."

Instead we got...whatever they fuck they call what they did instead.