I find the timing of this very interesting. Qanon has been around for a while and the black hats know it. So why NOW did they start reporting it on MSM? Maybe partly because it was gaining enough attention that if they didn't report SOMETHING about it, it would show that they don't actually report they just propagandize.
The other reason, I think it might be a twofold thing, is that they planned on making Q known so that they could use Q to their advantage by doing what has already been suggested, their usual FF bullshit.
So, no reporting on Q until recently even though they've known of its existence, now they report on it only to try to use it as a way to discredit Q. You can't discredit what nobody knows about right? Therefore they had to bring it to peoples attention before they pulled their crap.
Sound reasonable?