Comment by mrguyorama

It's money. PR companies are the ones who place those "Look this person who we all hate because they did blatantly antisocial and greedy crime is actually a human" articles in the New York Times and similar.

It really only takes like ten million dollars to ensure that the narrative you want prevails, as long as there is no monied force working against you with a different narrative.

Even shithole kids of rich assholes get this treatment.

And this was the case BEFORE half the country decided that the "good guys" are all hated by "the mainstream" anyway, and voted (a third time) for a guy who literally sells presidential pardons for $2 million, and has already pardoned outright fraudsters who don't even have fan clubs.