Your thinking is correct if we assume that we have a healthy media environment in the United States. If we did, we would not have an ongoing immigration crisis for more than a century. We would have as well at least moderately affordable healthcare. We have a deepening disaster. Why? Because the media do not inform the public. Ergo, it means that the best political writers are not in the major media outlets; if they are, they are tuned down. What is the problem for others could be a money-making opportunity for Medium. As you might guess, I wrote a few articles related to this subject.