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In the eyes of the media Republicans make very boring television, as do most Democrats. So the media will ALWAYS seek out the most extreme group at both ends of the political spectrum. Unfortunately for conservatives the Bible-beaters and skinheads are always chosen by the media to represent ALL conservatives. While all the special interest groups(GLAAD, MADD, Rainbow Coalition, PETA) always represent the Liberals. And considering how segmented the national population is most people gravitate toward the liberal special interest group that promises to give them the most.

Factor in that the media is also the perfect tool to beat political correctness into everyone's head like a torture drum and you have the perfect fascist social engineering machine.

Okay there is 20th century political TV news in a nutshell.

In the eyes of the media Republicans make very boring television

. . . and that is exactly correct. Republicans' vision of "America the Beautiful" is an entire continental nation in which all people peacefully cooperate to their mutual benefit, and of a stock market which never crashes but still increases at an annual rate of about 10%.

Journalism--all socialism--lives and dies by deviations of reality from that Republican vision, real or imaginary. For example, the "lowest quintile of the income distribution" is a perennial favorite. No socialist likes to discuss or admit that that quintile is loaded with young people who are just getting started--and even no few who have a quite respectable salary rate but, having only graduated in June, have only six months' salary to show at the end of the year.