Yeah, the pre-screening of questions and obvious favoritism from the media really speaks a media with "substantial independence".
Don't kid yourself. The democratic party's propaganda arm, the media with "substantial independence", have a made large percentage of the country either grossly ignorant of democrats' insane, despotic, statist governance, or convinced that republicans are tyrants, racists, insurrectionists, terrorists, diseased, and cultists, and thus democrats are justified in governing the way they do.