Part of the problem is that most "independent" media is just commentary, rather than investigative journalism, so even though everyone hates the MSM, most indie media just comments on whatever the MSM puts out anyways. And the few people doing actual indie journalism get dismissed as "crackpots" by optics cucks chasing "respectability" and access because when you actually do your own investigating, you end up finding a lot of "conspiracy theories" aka the radical notion that the government does stuff it's not supposed to do and then lies about it.