Which is press-worthy, the truth of the dossier or who paid for it?

During the 2016 presidential election campaign the Republicans and the conservative media cowed the mainstream press into treating the Clinton email issue as having the same significance as the many disclosures about Trump’s unfitness for the presidency, treating each with equal attention and gravity. Eventually, though too late, the press seemed to recover its backbone and gave due attention to President Trump’s lies, ignorance and utter inability to govern.

Unfortunately, the media seems to have succumbed recently to its former fearfulness of right-wing criticism. Thus, it has signed on to raising the importance of who, among the Clinton campaign leadership, paid for or knew about the opposition research which resulted in compilation of the notorious Steele dossier. That meaningless issue, which has no relevance to whether the Trump campaign collaborated with Russia, is being used by Republicans and their allies in the conservative media, to obscure their failure to seriously address the Russian attack on our democracy and divert attention from the impending indictments being brought by the special prosecutor