I agree.
What is depressing is that 50% of the voters are stupid and for a variety of reasons.
It will not change until we get the schools under local control and the government totally out of the schools.
The press can not be changed directly but local control of the schools will eventually improve the quality of the press.
There is no way Trump could have done a better job than he did
Depressing
I wish I could disagree.The purpose of First Amendment freedom of the press is to assure the country that mass media will be diverse and heterogeneous. That is its purpose, and the 1964 NY Times v. Sullivan SCOTUS decision assumed that in fact journalism was ideologically heterogeneous (so that public figures who were attacked by one newspaper would be defended by another), and public figures should not be suing for libel except in extreme cases.
That was not the reality even in 1964, and that is certainly not the case today. It’s not that the government forces ideological homogeneity among journalists, but that all the major US journalism institutions joined the Associated Press - and the AP “wire” became the mechanism by which they all coalesced ideologically into pro-big government propagandists.
“The media” must be attacked in the courts via suits for libel, and suits for violation by the AP of the Sherman AntiTrust Act of 1890. The AP was justified primarily by the application of economies of scale in the news business, but the effect of all major journalism being “associated” has been to negate the journalistic heterogeneity which the First Amendment purposed to assure. Therefore the First Amendment is not a legitimate legal defense of the AP.
Unless conservatives aggressively attack monopoly journalism in court, I don’t see how we can come out on top in the long run - or even break even.