FWIW, comments on the listed points:
1 - Bullshit. The legacy media is too entrenched to even consider backing off from Bad Orange Man. Should Trump win in 2024, they'll be right back at it again with their lies, distortions, and spin. They're good at it and most of America that listens to that drivel buys it because they're ****ing sheeple.
2 - Bullshit. The "fall guy" the IC is seeking won't be Asterisk or his regime. It'll be anybody but Biden. Why? Because the focus is keeping the presidency in a guy that is manipulated, over and over and over again.
3 - Bullshit. Corporate media goes where the money is. Period. There is no sense of journalistic integrity or honesty. It's all about money. And insofar as the elites are concerned, they're perfectly fine hunkered down behind their gated communities. We've seen that with the bullshit mask mandates. NIMBY -- Not In My Back Yard. As long as the dregs are escorted somewhere else other than Martha's Vineyard, things will be fine.
4 - Bullshit. The only "Utopian journalist" I have seen that reported on this debacle was Clarissa Ward. She was CNN's useful idiot and when her usefulness expires (will be shortly -- when was the last time you heard anything from her out of A-stan?), she'll be relegated to the CNN shitpile.
5 - Plausible, because ratings equal money. But the legacy media will find another bright, shiny thing to focus on and the lemmings will once again click and tap on those things, bringing ad money to their coffers. We're so polarized that the legacy media, being as entrenched as they are, can't not spew the leftist line.