GOP: John McCain is a noble truthteller (even though his votes are by and large despicably GOP). Media: Saint McCain!!
Obviously
DU-member ProfessorPlum hadn't noticed that McCain's last 17 or 18 years as Senator was characterized by back-stabbing Bush and Trump and caving to Obama. Rs' views of McC range from adoration to blaming him wrongly for causing the fire on the USS Forrestal, far more complex. The MSM were generally chummy with McC - mutual schmooze - but in 2008 they set him up to be defeated easily by Obama. McC never figured out what they had done to him. MSM praise for McC when he died was motivated and scripted by MSM Trump-Hatred.
Strange irrelevant question:
What would CNN's ratings be if hotels didn't have CNN on in their breakfast rooms and gyms didn't have CNN on their overhead TVs? One could ask the same of Fox. of course, but I suspect CNN would be affected by such a change far more than would Fox.